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I can't believe it's been over 5 years since my last Dumas novel.
Dumas is all about plot, forget characterization. His characters are all 2-dimensional but it's that plot! As I can only read translations, I shouldn't comment on writing style. However, what I read is typical 19th Century: longer, more complex sentences than even 20th Century writing and dialogue that conveys the thought adequately (but did people really talk that way?).
Where Dumas shines is in his writing of realistic scenes. T ...more
Dumas is all about plot, forget characterization. His characters are all 2-dimensional but it's that plot! As I can only read translations, I shouldn't comment on writing style. However, what I read is typical 19th Century: longer, more complex sentences than even 20th Century writing and dialogue that conveys the thought adequately (but did people really talk that way?).
Where Dumas shines is in his writing of realistic scenes. T ...more
It's been a long time since I've read Dumas (I'm well overdue for a re-read of The Count of Monte Cristo), and The Black Tulip was a fun romp through 17th Century Netherlands during the time of the "tulip fever". The first few chapters are rather dense as they lay out the political intrigue that drives the rest of the book, but ultimately this is a satisfying adventure story with the hallmarks of Dumas: romance, double-crossing, false imprisonment -- and yes, exciting horticulture action sequenc
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weird. Really dull topic (man grows tulip - really - about halfway through, you realise, yes that is what's going to happen - it opens with some attempted assassinations, so you're not expecting that) and dumas, as always waffles - in Chicot, he never uses two sentences when two chapters will do, here it's just a paragraph - but it still grips! Dumas just writes with extra glue! Strange, like i say. Warning: completely unnecessary, but not necessarily noticeable, antisemitism (the bad guy is jew
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It reminded me literature books I used to read at school, because of its simplicity. But it was a beautiful and romantic story anyway!
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