Ann's review
The Three Musketeers (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
Ah, the Three Musketeers. I read the abridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo and really enjoyed it (amazingly enough- oftentimes the 19th century writing style is a little ponderous and hard to get through). My friend Anna is writing a script for a play for the Three Musketeers, so I thought I would finally read the novel and it is actually pretty decent, although really bizarre in the sense that the morality of the story is so far removed from our own in many ways. The characters are ready to duel at the least slight to their honor, and should death result from said duel, it is seen as entirely deserved. They are all having affairs with married women (as is everyone else in the book), which seems to merely be a matter of course, and of course the famous "all for one and one for all" is very strictly adhered to, no matter what the situation (or how sketchy). It is just funny how easily, happily, and indeed, wholeheartedly, they commit acts that we today consider to...more
