Twenty Years After
by Alexandre Dumas
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Read in February, 2008
While Twenty Years After is great fun, it seems that the rule of weaker sequels operated even in Dumas's day. First things first: I thought the Oxford Worlds Classics translation worked a lot better than the Penguin Red Classics translation of the Three Musketeers. However, the plot straggles a little. Dumas can't really decide what story he wants to tell - the uprising of the Frondeurs in Paris, or the musketeers' sortie to England to try to save Charles I. (Am I the only one who found that who...more
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Read in March, 2006
There are many plots in this story, but my favorite one was the mission to aid Charles Stuart in the English Civil War against Parliament (ie: Oliver Cromwell). I was not particularly familiar with this part of English history so I wasn't convinced of the outcome until I read it. The way that the Musketeers were woven into the story was very believable, especially given their characters. I have to say that I didn't like Mazarin as an antagonist nearly as much as Richelieu. There were various com...more
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Twenty Years after is not nearly as good as its predecessor, but it still has some merits. If you dislike sequels where characters have actually aged and changed, this is not for you. It does occur twenty years after The Three Musketeers, and the main character is going through mid-life crisis. D'Artagnon is not the idealistic upstart we knew in the first book, and is the only one of the four who is still a musketeer. The other three have been scattered across France. There is still plenty of ac...more
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I must admit, I didn't like this book at all. Not because it wasn't well written, and not because there was anything wrong with it (there wasn't, by the way), it's just that the characters in the book did not seem like my old "friends", the Four Musketeers! Yes, they were named "D'Argatan", "Athos", "Porthos" and "Aramis" but they didn't seem like the same characters to me.
It's interesting though, if you wanted to find out what happended to all...more
It's interesting though, if you wanted to find out what happended to all...more
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Read in March, 2005
recommends it for:
adventure lovers
The end of The Three Musketeers has always bothered me, so I was happy to see the musketeers reconnect twenty years later. Twenty Years After has just as much action and adventure as The Three Musketeers.
I could have done without the way Porthos was made into a buffoon. His character has more to offer than that. The loyalty the musketeers have toward the obviously incompetent monarchy troubled me.
I could have done without the way Porthos was made into a buffoon. His character has more to offer than that. The loyalty the musketeers have toward the obviously incompetent monarchy troubled me.
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Very good stuff -- even more ideas for how to structure a good book about intrigue as well as action. It's much less... straightforward... than the original book, and in a good way. Some critique the original story as simplistic, but this story, much more mature, is less simplistic, and very interesting when you contrast the characters of the principals to the way they were twenty years before.
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Read in March, 2008
Possibly the worst translation of any book I have ever read. The tone and historical period of the language swing wildly <em>within paragraphs</em>. It's like the translator wants to detroy the reader's soul.
I'm not sure I can bear to finish this. Not in this translation (it can't be Dumas, not when Pevear's translation of The Three Musketeers was so good. It can't.).
I'm not sure I can bear to finish this. Not in this translation (it can't be Dumas, not when Pevear's translation of The Three Musketeers was so good. It can't.).
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This is the second book in the "Three Musketeers Trilogy". I wasn't as interested in this book and that may be because I read it after I read the third book (gotta love living in a small town where the selection is limited). I just didn't feel as though the story line was as strong as it was in the first and third books.
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I love Dumas. A great mix of history lesson and adventure novel. Bit slow till the Musketeers are gathered together. I like how the various historical figures are never really portrayed as good or evil. Lots of shades of grey.
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Read in August, 2006
This is a sequel to The Three Musketeers. During this installment, the relationships between the four heros and their lackeys are strengthened, as each pursues his own dreams and pursues adventure.
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Read in January, 2007
I've been reading this for over a year. It's FAT. But I love it. Sometimes I have to take a break from the adventure. You must read The Three Musketeers first or you will be very confused.
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This is the literary version of the sequel. I would not recommend this book, and the whole thing feels like an attempt to recapture a previous success, which fell flat.
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The 3 Muskateers, yep...20 years later. They're older, cranky, and grown beyond who they were. Not as full as the first, but the craft on display is awesome.
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In my opinion, this adventure is better plotted, more exciting and peopled with stronger characters than The Three Musketeers.
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Read in January, 2007
The writing is still witty, but it is far surpassed as a whole by the first of the trilogy, The Three Musketeers.
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Read in April, 2006
More Museketeers fun, but now they're older and grumpier. Another great read.
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This was my least favorite out of the trilogy. It was kind of slow for me.
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more history and less action than the three musketeers, but still fun.
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alta carte super de la Alexandre Dumas.... ca toate de la el... ;))
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The sequel to The Three Musketeers. Inferior, but still very good.
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