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Disappointing. I love Dumas but this long novel has few of the things I love about him. The characters kind of come and go, are there for a few chapters and then never appear again. It's almost impossible to follow the action, unless you are very familiar with one of the most confusing periods of French history, The Terror after the Revolution. He says several times himself that he is not really writing a novel, and not really writing a history, he's kind of filling in the blanks of history with historical details he picked up from people who lived at the time he is writing about. I was looking forward particularly to reading about Bonaparte in Egypt, but learned very little. It just goes from one battle to another, with very little narrative cushion to make it interesting.

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