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The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

Start date: March 1, 2012

Finish date: March 31, 2012

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Mar 03, 2008 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 3ms, french-literature, historical-fiction, fiction-19th-century, audio-books, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, book-and-movie, read-2014, hf-17th-century

From BBC Radio 4 Extra:
Dramatisation of the tale of swashbuckling and political intrigue at the court of King Louis XIII.

I loved to watch this old version The Three Musketeers (1948)

Cast

Lana Turner ... Lady de Winter
Gene Kelly ... D'Artagnan
June Allyson ... Constance
Van Heflin ... Athos
Angela Lansbury ... Queen Anne
Frank Morgan ... King Louis XIII
Vincent Price ... Richelieu
Keenan Wynn ... Planchet
John Sutton ... The Duke of Buckingham
Gig Young ... Porthos
Robert Co ...more

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Dec 23, 2009 Gaijinmama rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, classics

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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Mar 11, 2011 Lisa rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, should-have-read-bookclub, favorites

What a wonderful book. The story was fast-paced and entertaining from beginning to end. The three musketeers(well, actually four) drove me crazy in parts of the book, but their antics were very amusing. The Lady de Winter was such a great and terrible villian, that she can make you route for her and hope she gets her just rewards at the same time.

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