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Sep 14, 2011

Madeline rated it:

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 More...

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Mar 10, 2010

Manny rated it:

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...

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Oct 21, 2011

Mariel rated it:

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 ho More...

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Dec 16, 2009

Lisa rated it:

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.
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Apr 12, 2009

Daniel rated it:

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 off More...

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May 19, 2008

J rated it:

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.

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Nov 07, 2011

Peter rated it:

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 bre More...

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Mar 02, 2008

Jessica rated it:

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...

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Jan 13, 2008

Russell rated it:

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 More...

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Feb 10, 2011

Connor rated it:

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 t More...

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Feb 02, 2011

Kwesi 章英狮 rated it:

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.)

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Book #1 for Off The Sh More...

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Feb 22, 2011

Tally rated it:

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 chi More...

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Feb 27, 2009

Silver rated it:

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 wou More...

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Sep 16, 2011

Bettie rated it:

REVIEW FOR CELEBRITY DEATH MATCH ONLY:

LORD OF THE RINGS WINS BY A DROP GOAL AND CONVERSION
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Jan 29, 2012

Eric rated it:

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 fr

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Sep 25, 2008

Crazy Uncle Ryan rated it:

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 exa More...

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Dec 16, 2009

Keely rated it:

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...

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May 03, 2007

Bill rated it:

At long last, Agi and I are reading out loud to one together. It's one of my all time favorites and a close second to The Count of Monte Cristo for full-throttled Dumas fun and mayhem. There are half a dozen duels, several melees and countless intrigues in the first 50 pages alone.

The Three Musketeers is breezier, funnier and less brooding than The Count of Monte Cristo. I love the whole gallant, devil-may-care picture that Dumas paints, set out with the lines, "Loose, half-d More...

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Aug 25, 2007

Karri rated it:

If I had to choose just one favorite book, it would be this one. It has everything, romance, intrigue, adventure, political discontent. I adore D'Artagnan, Porthos, Athos, and Aramis and admire them and I want to fight by their sides. I was thrilled to learn that the adventure does not end with this book but actually continues with a sequel called "Twenty Years After" and then the story keeps going with the trilogy "The Vicomte de Bragelonne," "Louise de la Valliere," More...

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Mar 01, 2010

Dan rated it:

The Musketeer Trilogy is my favorite literary story of all time. I can't count how many times I've read the collection, and it is rather daunting to go through the unabridged versions :). The pacing, plot and character development are all excellent. This is the absolute pinnacle of adventure story telling, and is a must read for any adventure fan.

The Three Musketeers is my favorite book of all time, and it's one that you can easily read over and over. While the sequential stories More...

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Aug 11, 2011

Jeremiah rated it:

It is easy to see why this is a classic. His characters are great. They fight like heroes, love like champions and do it all while drunk. Excellent role models for every young man!

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Jan 22, 2008

Wouter rated it:

With the story as well-known as it is I expected this classic to be a literary masterpiece, so I was a bit suprised when it turned out that it is far from that. It is one long ride of uncalled-for swashbuckling, intrigues, heroism, witticisms and romance - in other words pulp. Any deeper motives for all this action are, as far as I know, missing. The motives of the characters were at times beyond grasping, as their view on what matters in life on some points doesn't even resemble ours. But does More...

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May 13, 2008

Aimee rated it:

Phew! I finally finished this monster! For someone who can barely put 5 minutes together to read, this was quite the undertaking, but I really enjoyed it. The first couple-hundred pages worried me, and I wasn't so sure I could finish the book as a non-French-speaker, but I started really getting into the story. Dumas has quite a knack for spinning a good yard and developing interesting characters. It was nice to read the original version of this classic, as I had seen movies, etc. based on More...

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May 06, 2008

Mistr3ssquickly rated it:

This book is 500-odd pages long. I read it in four days.

I did very little else in those four days.

It reads like a cliche, but really, who cares? It's a good story with good characters and good action. The pacing is great, the dialogue is wonderful, and when you get to the end, you feel like you've just had a wonderful treat.

Good for teaching young people (mid-teens and older) that the "classics" aren't boring, or good for kicking back and losing your More...

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Jan 19, 2012

Mark rated it:

Considering how many books I read per month, I am staggered that it took me 32 years to finally get around to reading the Three Musketeers. This is an excellent book and one of the best pieces of literature that I have ever got my hands on. I was totally gripped from start to finish.[return][return]D'Artagnan goes to Paris to seek his fortune and hopefully to join the coveted King's Musketeers. No sooner is he in the capital than he is fighting a duel with the Musketeers and this brings him to t More...

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Feb 17, 2009

Lizzy rated it:

D'Artagnan was nothing more than a country boy from Gascony, arriving at the gates of Paris like many others...to seek fame and fortune. D'Artagnan's dream is to join the ranks of the king's musketeers, a coveted position worthy of only the most outstanding fighters. D'Artagnan's plans are thrown off track when a mysterious man steals his letter of recommendation, the letter D'Artagnan was counting on to get him into the musketeers. D'Artagnan's bold, hot-headed nature and cunning schemes soon g More...

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Nov 30, 2008

Stephen rated it:

I picked up this book at a second hand store as a book that would be nice to adorn the book shelf. Subsequently, I met a girl called Emilie Dumas and have since become good friends with her. Because of this occasion I deceided to pick up Alexandre Dumas' book and give it a bash. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised!
I thought it may be a tedious story and somewhat dated. However, to use the cliche, it turns out to be a "fast-paced, swashbuckling adevnture" (okay you can puke More...

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Jan 31, 2012

Don rated it:

A story about a gang of drunken thugs who terrorize Paris, abuse and rape women and extort money out of their mistresses.

It's a long time since I first read the Musketeers series (which ends with the Man with the Iron Mask) but Dumas' "heros" are far more complex and brutal than the black and white picture we have of them throw films and folklore. D'Artangan does, after all, commit rape. Athos tried to hang his young wife. Porthos extorts money from an older lover and Aramis More...

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Jan 04, 2012

Leighann rated it:

All for one and one for all!

This is a classic, a timeless piece, which means I'm not supposed to like it. I don't read classics. But when the shiny new phone arrived with this book already downloaded I thought hmm...well I'll try it.

Then the shiny new Kindle Fire arrived and I thought ok I'll download it here too it's free.

Then I started to read it. I could not put it down. I devoured this book. And we all know it isn't short.

The story of D'Artagnan is w More...

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Dec 28, 2011

Benjamin rated it:

This book was an instant favorite for me from among "THE CLASSICS." My reason for this is simple, but it touches upon a fundamental attitude toward literature which is complex.

The introduction to the edition I read asserted several perceived weaknesses of Dumas: flat and two-dimensional characters, dialogue which at times stretches credulity, and a failure to plumb any great depths of philosophy. I shall add one of my own: the protagonists are at times difficult to root for, More...

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