There are many great books that are necessarily excluded from the "must-read" black history list on this page. Books like the Bible and the Quran, and Euclid's Elements and many other such universal works are missing. I recall an imprisoned Abbe (priest) telling another inmate, wrongly imprisoned in Alexander Dumas' THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO , that there were 150 books that must be read before he would be sufficiently skilled, courageous, wise, and educated to be able to exact much-desired vengeance on his enemies efficiently and exquisitely. The Abbe then secretly tutored that young man many years, before he died. Ironically, that man, Dantes, used that benevolent Abbe's shroud, body-bag to effect his escape, when the trusties threw it into the sea, unknowingly. Those books were not named, but since Dumas wrote in the 1800s, those works all antedated him. I have sought them since. That Abbe also gave that young inmate, Dantes, the location of a vast subterranean grotto filled with gold, jewels, silver, on the Italian coast, which he could use to carry out his destruction on those who had maliciously destroyed him. Of course, Dantes had to first escape from the Chateau d'If, a French prison in the sea in order to succeed! Riches I have not sought; but, those books, those books, I seek every day! Ha! I would say Dumas' book is definitely a "must-read!
Friday, February 6, 2015
BLACK HISTORY'S "MUST-READ" BOOKS: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO by Alexander Dumas
There are many great books that are necessarily excluded from the "must-read" black history list on this page. Books like the Bible and the Quran, and Euclid's Elements and many other such universal works are missing. I recall an imprisoned Abbe (priest) telling another inmate, wrongly imprisoned in Alexander Dumas' THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO , that there were 150 books that must be read before he would be sufficiently skilled, courageous, wise, and educated to be able to exact much-desired vengeance on his enemies efficiently and exquisitely. The Abbe then secretly tutored that young man many years, before he died. Ironically, that man, Dantes, used that benevolent Abbe's shroud, body-bag to effect his escape, when the trusties threw it into the sea, unknowingly. Those books were not named, but since Dumas wrote in the 1800s, those works all antedated him. I have sought them since. That Abbe also gave that young inmate, Dantes, the location of a vast subterranean grotto filled with gold, jewels, silver, on the Italian coast, which he could use to carry out his destruction on those who had maliciously destroyed him. Of course, Dantes had to first escape from the Chateau d'If, a French prison in the sea in order to succeed! Riches I have not sought; but, those books, those books, I seek every day! Ha! I would say Dumas' book is definitely a "must-read!