Is it worth it to finish The Count of Monte Cristo?

By faintLynx

I started The Count of Monte Cristo back in August and was honestly flying through it at first. I knocked out the first hundred pages in a day because I thought it was amazing. Then somewhere around the middle, I think around page 560ish, I just started dreading opening it again because it’s so long and I still wasn’t even close to done. So I put it back on the shelf and haven’t touched it since. But for the past few days I’ve been weirdly thinking about picking it up again. A lot of the chapters were pretty short and not hard to get through. I’ve been in a really bad reading slump since the beginning of the month, and finishing something like this would feel awesome, but I also worry the length will just keep me stuck. So what would you do? Start over? Continue from where I stopped? Or just give up on it completely? I left my bookmark where I stopped because I always figured I’d come back, I just don’t know if I should and whether the remaining 700 pages are even worth it. Thanks!