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Kate Flournoy posted an update 10 years, 12 months ago
@daeus Hey Daeus, we actually HAVE the Count of Monte Cristo, and my Mom said I could read it if I asked you whether or not it has inappropriate content, cause she said she’s seen some movies of the story and they had some pretty bad stuff in them. Was that just Hollywood?
Where did you make this post anyway? I could only find it by clicking on the link. Anyways, The Count of Monte Cristo. I’ve never seen the movie so I don’t know exactly how it compares to the book, though I do know it does have many differences. My guess is the movie is worse.
Is Count of Monte Cristo book appropriate? That’s hard to say. The main theme is vengeance, but that is not the moral of the story. It also contains clear themes of murder, suicide, infanticide, lying, adultery, poisoning, insanity, guilt, theft, betrayal, and probably a lot I’m forgetting. I think there was one vision some minor character had (oh yeah, it was drug induced I believe) which was kinda obscene. Does this mean that the book is inappropriate? I’ll leave the judgment up to you. I thought it was fine and I tend to take issue with evil literature. There are no scenes of adultery, only themes of it. There are however vivid scenes of poisonings, murders, and insanity. It really keeps you on your seat. I don’t think I’ve read more of an intense book.
I guess it depends on what you can take. There is nothing in it that would make me against any christian reading it, but the author has an unparalleled ability to display the human passions. If somebody is experiencing anguish, you will feel it strongly. In fact, that is where I would put it at. If you can take anguish, you’ll be fine.
If you have any specific scenes you’re wondering about, I could probably tell you if its in the book.
I clicked on your name and then on the button that says ‘public message’ right next to the ‘add friend’.
Thanks for the book report. I can take anguish pretty well, or I wouldn’t be able to take a lot of the Dickens that I enjoy. Poison doesn’t bother me, blood doesn’t bother me, insanity doesn’t bother me, and so long as adultery is not shown, only hinted at, I can take that as well. In fact I don’t think I’ve read a single Dickens that didn’t have something of that stamp in it.
So thanks. I’ll talk it over with my Mom, but I’m pretty sure from your description none of the themes you mentioned were themes I have not encountered before, so I think I could read it. I’ll let you know.
Oh and you mentioned someone had a vision that was kinda obscene. Was it just… gross? Because I think I’ve encountered some pretty icky dreams and visions and a lot of other things reading C. S. Lewis’s ‘Space Trilogy’, which I didn’t like, but mostly for other reasons.
Fantastic. You will not regret it. I would not recommend it otherwise. Do expect it to be far more intense than a Dickens novel though.
If I remember correctly part of the vision included a nude Cleopatra and maybe two other ancients of names forgotten to me, or maybe I’m not remembering correctly, but it was only a passing reference.
I thought I had something else to say, but never mind. Maybe I’ll recall it.
If that was all, I encountered far worse things in the ‘Space Trilogy’ and was no more than briefly annoyed. Okay. I’ll go for it.
By the way, I wouldn’t recommend the Space Trilogy to anyone. It’s just not worth anything spiritually enriching you might glean from it. Too many gross and suggestive things about it, and a few blurred lines here and there that I was very surprised and disappointed to find in the works of such a famous Christian author.
Really now? I read out of the silent planet and liked that. Are the rest that bad?
Not like wicked bad— out of the Silent Planet was pretty good, actually, and I went on to read Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, but Perelandra has a lot of suggestive stuff in it I think it could have done without, and That Hideous Strength is downright gross in so many ways. I just thought it was unnecessarily disgusting; unnecessarily descriptive when it comes to evil and wickedness. That Hideous Strength also has a LOT of suggestive tidbits here and there that I found irritating.
C. S. Lewis also seems to have a fascination bordering on obsession with the sensual beauty of the human body, and all in all there were quite a few places where he went overboard on that. Don’t let me prejudice you— read it for yourself if you want it all, and form your own opinion. I don’t think it’ll do any mature person damage, but I really can’t see any point in reading them. Maybe that’s just me.