The Three Musketeers in Reading with Style

Jun 13, 2011 Kiri rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: reviewed, literature, historical-fiction, z-read-1970-1999

J'ai pris cela en place dans les années à Paris plusieurs dos et même si je savais l'histoire des films, j'ai trouvé la lecture de l'original français tout à fait une balade. Je suis toujours méfiant de lire des traductions. Même si beaucoup sont étonnamment bien fait, j'ai découvert que quelque chose d'intrinsèque est souvent perdu à moins que le traducteur est vraiment bon à leur travail. Personnellement, je pense que la littérature espagnole souffre le plus de cette maladie dans l'hémisphère ...more

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Jan 17, 2016 Maia rated it liked it

Shelves: 2016, game-of-thrones-substitutes

age 13, i loved this. Aged 45, it was gripping, waffley (you know something's going to happen soon, so it increases the tension, but is annoying), has beautiful turns of phrase and some passages, and is full of extreme violence towards animals, civilians, cynical abuse of women, theft etc. I mean, to those with morality it's just stupid and offensive, and to those who like debauchery and pleasure, its pleasures - staying drunk all day, losing all your money at gambling as soon as you get it, pre ...more

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May 02, 2016 Juniper marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: in-translation

richard pevear (he of volokhonsky and pevear, awesome translators of russian lit.) did this edition! must acquire.

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Dec 27, 2009 Donna Jo Atwood rated it it was ok

Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, 2009-10-winter-challenge, france-fiction, classics, ebook, swash-those-buckles

Reading ebook version.
Waaaay too long to read in the electronic version. I now seem to have the attention span of a gnat, and this has done nothing to increase it.

Task 30.10

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