Lee Weick

He's still quite lovable.

I was rooting for him, even though there were times when I thought, oh, he's taking some bad turns.

He's not the type of person maybe I would want to be in all instances.

But he's

the type of person many or most of us are in certain situations.

So he's very relatable and very lovable.

I did have an opportunity to actually visit a castle in Switzerland on Lake Geneva that was a castle that inspired Alexander Dumas.

when he was writing this story.

Yes.

So I walked around that castle.

I didn't take the tour that they wanted to give me.

I just spent hours wandering around the castle and sitting and reflecting on what Alexander Dumas must have been thinking when he was there.

And then as he was writing the Count of Monte Cristo, he used that as a type for the Chateau d'If that,

is featured heavily in the book.

Yes.

I've read the book three times, I think.

Exactly.

I read it once when I was relatively young, and then I brought it to our book club, who almost didn't agree to read it because it's so long.

I'm really not sure, but I want to say it's around 800 maybe.

It's one of the longest books I've ever read.