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TITLE: The Count of Monte Cristo
AUTHOR: Alexandre Dumas
READ: May 2026
SUMMARY: A wrongly convicted man escapes from prison and methodically exacts vengeance on those who betrayed him.
BIG, BEAUTIFUL IDEA: What goes around comes around.
MOMENTUM: Justice slowly consumed by obsession.
ARCHITECTURE: The way poison moves through a system.
AFTER EFFECT: The melancholy of innocence that cannot be recovered.
CONCLUSION: Masterpiece.