The Black Count

Fascinating. Utterly fascinating. I learned so, so much about stuff I really didn't care about before (and really still don't), but Reiss made me care, made me interested in most of it. I knocked it down from 5 stars because I thought toward the end of the book he spent too much of time on non-Dumas matters that didn't seem to play a significant part in the circumstances of his life (and there were far too many authorial “I”s in a biography for my taste).

This is the kind of non-fiction/history that makes a guy want to read more in that genre.