Another book down

Reading total: 5 books
Books to go: 25
Months before 30: 14
Library Fines: same
 
I have finished another book - The Count of Monte Cristo, all 507 pages of it!  This is a great book with a wonderfully written story.  Although there are so many characters and story lines that I found myself getting confused on a regular basis - but that's probably because I was only reading a chapter here and a chapter there so it was choppy in my mind.  Luckily, the front of the book has a list of all the characters, which helped.
 
This book again proved that the book is nearly always better than the movie!  And quite different.  I haven't seen the movie in years, but I'm pretty sure the endings are completely different.  This book is one that I would categorize as a classic - there is romance, betrayal, revenge - all the makings of a wonderful story!
 
So next I was planning to start on one of the three books I recently picked up at a yard sale, but I just checked my list and none of the books are on "the list".  Hum, what was I thinking when I bought them?  So now I have One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey, A Farwell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, but won't read them until after the 30 books challenge.  Instead, I think I'll pick what is perhaps the shortest book on my list...The Little Prince.  I read it in French class in high school, but don't think I've ever read the English version, and considering how bad my French was, I'm pretty sure I didn't understand most of it back then!