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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/212977.Camille?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Camille" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1172755298m/212977.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/212977.Camille?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Camille</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1407821.Alexandre_Dumas_fils">Alexandre Dumas, fils</a><br/><br/>
  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19897169?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>This book is part of my continuing misadventures at the public library.  I went to get a book off of my to-read shelf.  As I thought about what was on there I remembered the Ladies of the Camellias.  When I typed that in, the only title similar was this book, Camille: The Lady of the Camillias.  I couldn't remember the author of the play and this seemed to be fiction but I thought maybe the play was derived from the book.  Nope.  But I consoled myself with the fact that this was the author of The Three Musketeers.  Nope.  But it was his son.  So, again, a rather unsuccessful trip to the library when measured in terms of getting what I came for but not unsuccessful in terms of adventure.  <br/><br/>At any rate, the book is a period (obviously) love story between a courtesan and a young Frenchman.  I thought the writing was pretty luke warm for the most part.  I did like that the woman ( you would think her name was Camille but it was Marguerite) had a signature flower (bouquets of white camellias every day of the month except for 5 days when she had red).  There is something intriguing to me in people's rituals.  What mad the book more interesting to me was the insert of photos from different film and stage productions of the book.  The most interesting to me were: a 1984 TV film with Colin Firth looking surprisingly hot, a 1937 version with Greta Garbo, and the fact that La Traviata was based on this novel.  The book wasn't engaging enough for me to read again but it was interesting enough that I would like to see some of these versions of it.  
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This book is part of my continuing misadventures at the public library. I went to get a book off of my to-read shelf. As I thought about what was on there I remembered the Ladies of the Camellias. When I typed that in, the only title similar was this book, Camille: The Lady of the Camillias. I couldn't remember the author of the play and this seemed to be fiction but I thought maybe the play was derived from the book. Nope. But I consoled myself with the fact that this was the author of The Three Musketeers. Nope. But it was his son. So, again, a rather unsuccessful trip to the library when measured in terms of getting what I came for but not unsuccessful in terms of adventure.

At any rate, the book is a period (obviously) love story between a courtesan and a young Frenchman. I thought the writing was pretty luke warm for the most part. I did like that the woman ( you would think her name was Camille but it was Marguerite) had a signature flower (bouquets of white camelli...more

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