This is a kick-ass novel, and I am indeed kicking my own ass for not having read it earlier. I'm ashamed to say that I thought it was a children's book. My wife indignantly refuses any responsibility for my mistake... as she points out, it's entirely my fault if I drew the wrong inferences from the fact that her mother read it aloud to her as an eight year old. It turns out, on closer examination of the facts, that Elisabeth's mom must have skipped about a quarter of the text - but I digress. No More...

For the Celebrity Death Match Review Tournament, The Lord of the Rings (2) versus Les Trois Mousquetaires (31)

Three musketeers for the elven kings under the sky
Seven for the dwarf-lords in their halls of stone
Nine for mortal man, doomed to die
One for Cardinal Richelieu

It's a beautiful afternoon here at the Coliseum, and they're cleaning up after the Lions v Christians fixture... Christians lost as usual, ha ha... everyone's looking forward to the main event, we hear they've got a surprise plann More...

I thought that Queen Margot couldn't be topped. I should have known better.
Honestly, I do not have enough space to fully explain all the ways I adore this book. But I'll try to condense it.
-First, the four main characters. Love, love, love, and more love. Aramis and Porthos - the Merry and Pippin of the group, if you'll excuse the extremely dorkish LOTR cross-reference - made me laugh; D'Artagnan was charming even though (or maybe because) he had multiple moments where, were I in the story, I More...

Celebrity Death Match tournament versus The Divine Comedy.
"You're in hell. This is the purgatory part but I'm here to take you back to the beginning of the inferno. Mariel has never read The Divine Comedy and it is probably a sound idea to begin from the beginning."
"So we're in hell. I take my sword from my hip and angle the blade to sight and slight my enemies from the blight of this night." Athos puts his hand on his hip as a placeholder where his holster would once have been. His other hand r More...

If I was a Physicist, I would explain it like this: Athos, Porthos and Aramis are like the protons in an atom. D'Artagnan the neutrons that stabilize it. Actually, this would mean they are Lithium. So, keep them away from water. Or else...unfortunately the King sends them on an expedition to the isles. Now, they would have to cross the channel to get there, would they not?
On their way, however, it shows that rivers and winecellars are no good either.
action - reaction. Everybody under their desk More...

I've had more fun reading "The Three Musketeers" than I've had with any book in a long time, and my only regret is that I didn't find my way to Dumas sooner. It's bursting with swordplay, political intrigue, romance, fortunes won and lost, mistresses kept and stolen, poisoned wine, devious nobility, and vengeance sought and attained. What more could a reader ask for? While "The Three Musketeers" isn't the most intellectually challenging book ever written -- though it does offer, in passing, the More...

There exist in the world authors from previous eras whose characters have become so ubiquitous in the popular culture that they undergo a strange kind of infantalizing. The rather serious philosophical questions Robert Louis Stevenson posed about mind-body duality and evolution are passed over in favor of the monster story of wicked Mr. Hyde. Jonathan Swift’s venomous satires of English life are reduced to the tale of an island of little people and an island of giants.

And even as I knew this, I More...

Entretenido, ameno, divertido, con unos protagonistas al mismo tiempo valientes y pendencieros, generosos y aprovechados, nobles y villanos. Dumas no tiene problema en mostrar las facetas menos heroicas de sus protagonistas, haciéndolos humanos y entrañables.

No le doy la quinta estrella por culpa de algunas partes más farragosos, sobre un tramo al final del libro donde la acción decae y se hace a ratos pesado. Pero salvo eso una auténtica gozada, un ejemplo de como debe ser un libro de aventuras More...

I'm surprised that d'Artagnan and his three friends in so many people eyes are heroes and "good" guys. Because they are not. Author has made cruelty, crime and sinful deeds OK if its done by "inseparable" friends and cloaked it in heroism and gallantry.
I had a lot what-the-heck moments. Almost every chapter.
The book is full of "Duma's occasional lapses of memory"
However the story is interesting and the book is a true page turner. More...

Did you know there were 4 musketeers? Did you also know they were not very nice guys? One guy won't let his servant ever speak. One is having an affair with a married woman, and ridicules her for gifts she buys him. Another can't decide whether to have an affair or be a priest, but constantly pinches his ears to make them a more attractive color. Since they don't seem to be paid much to be musketeers they are constantly grifting off of other people. One of their brave deeds is too have breakfast More...

Well, it was no Count of Monte Cristo, but it was still exciting and dramatic. I was much more into the second half, when it starts focusing on the diabolical Lady de Winter. One disappointment was that I had always envisioned the Three Musketeers to be noble, just, Robin Hood-type characters. It turns out that, though brave, they are quite selfish and immoral, and tend to murder people with little provocation. None of the musketeers was very likable to me. Women also don't fare very well here a More...

Everyone is familiar with the first half of this book as that is the part (or some version of it) that usually makes the movies. The rest of the book being much darker and sadder (view spoiler)[ (the death of Constance for example). The Cardinal of course does not die and the king and queen do not find each other with all coming right in the world. But it's a wonderful book and well worth the read. (hide spoiler)] Go ahead see the movies, just don't confuse them with the literature.

OMG OMG OMG that was seriously the most awesome fun ever! :D I'm so glad I finally did read it - the insane length kept me away for so long... 720 pages! Tiny font! But oh, it was so worth it. And I found it to also be a very engrossing read, and quite fast as well. If I hadn't been working so much I could have finished it much faster - the pages just fly by! There's a lot of dialogue, which helps. And the story is so rich and fun, such a brilliant adventure. Lots of deaths though :P I was wary More...

I cruised through this book in two days (December 29,30) since I wanted to have it done before the new year. I was excited to read another Dumas book and especially this one due to the bits of pieces I've learned about it from various media spins using it over the years. I had a hard time getting into it though, I really had a hard time liking d'Artagnan. He seemed brash and brazen, belligerent and a bit of a doofus.

I continued reading because I was interested to see how things would turn out: t More...

This is a great book! I would recommend it to most people. It may be a little on the harder side depending on how much you read. I really liked the time period of this book. I really was mad at some of the characters, even though they were in the book. Some of the characters were real. D'Artagnan (the main character) was a real musketeer. Duke Buckingham was a duke of England around the time period. I believe the Cardinal existed as well, but I'm not so sure.

D'Artagnan heads to Paris to apply fo More...

Review will be posted soon..

Rating - The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, 5 Sweets and a lady who always in your heart no matter how deadly you are. (I want to make sure that this book is so thick, and it takes time to read, the letters were so small but the book was translated in a very easy way to read and liked by common readers. Received from Mommy Gege of Flip Flipping Pages last December of year 2009.)

Challenges:
Book #1 for 2011
Book #1 for Off The Shelf! More...

I have had a crush on the swash-buckeling original Zorro, sorry Antonio, since my early teens. Call me a Romantic...and I will answer. What else is better than a young, cocky, heart-of-a-lion boy chasing a dream of being the best, a member of the elite in the name of good? As young adults, we all like to believe these things are true, somewhere in time.

As young girls we would all like to believe that we can find these qualities in someone with whom we can give our love too. Yeah chicas, talking More...

Finally got my hands on a non-altered, non-shortened version of this (except it was a translation) which made this read better than the previous ones.

Is it weird that I find the musketeers childish (yet funny) and mylady a likeable character? Sure, she did kill some innocents, but before that. A good husband does not HANG HIS WIFE IN A TREE when he finds out she's a criminal - looking at you, Athos. As for d'Artagnan: Who pretends to be someone's boyfriend and has sex with them in the darkness? More...

The female villain in this book is a great one. I loved all the characters, and I loved the plot. It is different than The Count of Monte Cristo. Both are wonderful, but The Three Musketeers is more action-packed, from cover to cover, while The Count of Monte Cristo has more down time. I look forward to reading the rest of the books in this series.

My familiarity with this story was limited to the Disney film and the sort-of sequel, neither of which have much to do with anything. Our hero, the young d’Artagnan, longs to become a Musketeer. While he is proving his worth, he befriends the titular Three Musketeers: Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. I had not realized that most of the characters in this book are based (however loosely) on real people, but considering I knew pretty much nothing about any of them going in, it didn’t really matter. Mos More...

For just about as long as I could remember I have loved the Three Musketeers, and have seen just about every movie made about the story. Sword fighting adventure, how could I resist, right along with Zorro, Robin Hood, King Arthur.

But I had never read the book before up until recently and when I was younger I did not even know that it was originally from a book, so of course I had to read the novel as soon as I as able to do so, but I did not know quite what to expect. I knew it would not be th More...

The Three Musketeers is indeed one of the most celebrated historical romances and well-known classic tale of all time. A perpetual favorite amongst a variety of audiences—from juvenile to stripling ones, to a cluster of full-fledged devotees—it has been adapted to a series of media types. There are movie adaptations, TV shows, and even cartoon shows. Altogether tells the story of the dashing musketeers namely: Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Still, it is inevitable that the media may tarnish the genu More...

Okay let me start this off by confessing that I never actually finished reading this book. I was about 80 pages from the end when the library threatened to charge me $225 for kidnapping Dumas, and as much as I was enjoying his company I think I much rather enjoy having $225 (haha just kidding I don't even have that kind of money).

The Three Musketeers is completely different from what I was expecting, but not necessarily in a bad way. It was fun, it was goofy (I don't know if this was on purpose, More...

I bought this new translation - my younger son has read it (I read it originally years ago in another translation - but these are the ones who did the new translation of Anna Karennina which I loved). My son, John, assures me that this is THE translation of the Three Musketeers, so I've started reading it among all the other books I'm reading. I hope to be able to concentrate on it, soon.

This was a very enjoyable read. I suppose it being a new translation I understand things I didn't before sinc More...

The title of this novel is deliberately misleading. Dumas really missed the boat on this one by not calling this masterpiece The Three Musketeers and One er, Guardsman. Who knew that “all for one, one for all” actually meant “all FOUR one, one FOUR all? We didn’t, although the list of things we don’t know can at times be staggering (really, people actually make blankets with arm holes?). Anyway, today, let’s concentrate on the things we do know...

In route to ask the captain of the Musketeers fo More...

It has taken me weeks to post this! Meanwhile, I've been grumbling about this book in my groups. I finished it, and didn't hate it, but it bothered me. In fact I nearly chucked it across the room a few times, but as a rule I do not finish books that I don't believe are worth my time. This one was. My rating is sort of an average between a 5 for the book's literary merit and just barely a 2 for my enjoyment (or lack thereof).

First the good stuff: it's a classic and deservedly so. I'm glad to say More...

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The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers was written by Alexandre Dumas. Alexandre was born on June 24th 1802. His first few plays were Henry III and His Court (1829). The Tower of Nesle (1832), Kean (1836), and his Byrone Anthony (first performed in 1831) which were inspired by Lord George Gordon Byron. He was an avid reader of William Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott whose dramas were immensely popular, being among the first of the Romantic Movement, along with friend and sometimes rival Vict

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If your whole concept of The Three Musketeers comes from that nincompoopish little farce that Disney made a few years ago than you really know nothing about this great story. The Three Musketeers is an exceptional piece of historical fiction filled with political intrigue, great heroes and sinister villains. What it doesn’t have is an overabundance of slapstick jokes, “Porthos the Pirate,” a wimply Lady DeWinter, the nauseating overuse of the line “all for one and one for all” (they say it exact More...

Remarkable book. I have been, on occasion, accused of some sort of self-set elitism which suffuses my opinions and critiques on literature. It seems people are often more likely to think one has an ulterior motive for liking or not liking a book rather than looking at the presented arguments. In any case, I would posit this book as the countermand to that sentencing. It is not a literary book, as such, as it does not place itself in a deep referential or metaphorical state. Though it is certainl More...