the count of monte cristo

The book starts of in France where a crowd watches for a ship at a port. The people hear bad news and find out the captain has died. The first mate reassures his peers that the trip went smoothly. His "boss" is excited to hear that the trip went smoothly and that the first mate stood up in the situation. this man who is responsible for all financial things for the ship tries to say that what he did was nothing important.. He also says that they they had to stop the ship and that cost them time. When the first mate confronts the other character about this he says that the captain wanted him to deliever some sort of package and thats why they were late. He also says why they were there he talked to the emperor of France.

I recently watched the movie of this book on HBO and my mom had the book and said it was good. RIght now this is pretty boring and from what i remember from the movie it kind of is boring the middle but maybe it is different from the movie. The who keeps making the first mate look bad is annoying. I dont like when people try to make people look bad. And i was sort of confused on the way the captain dies. He seems like a good guy though and he is very humble from what im reading. He also could ruin that guys career but he chooses to keep his mouth shut.