The Three Musketeers in Reading the Classics

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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Aug 03, 2011 Angie Palau rated it liked it

First of all, if you're going to read it, read the real thing. There are many versions that are abridged, and you're robbing yourself of the Narrator if you go with abridged. The narrator is a pretty funny "character" in the novel, although you'll never know who he his - but from his modern stance in the year 1844, he offers commentary on the antics of the characters in 1625.

This a long, but fun, book. It's a fairly light romp and very much a "guy's" book (IMHO), with much sword play, gratuitou ...more

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Jul 15, 2013 Cheryl rated it liked it

Shelves: 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, hf-masters

I thought that I would enjoy this one more than I did. It was very clever, but just did not pull me in. The characters are certainly memorable. I do not think I have ever seen a more evil woman than Milady! She was the ultimate villain!

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May 03, 2016 Viktoriya rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: series, 1001-books-to-read, classics, re-read, 2016, book-i-own

I haven't read this book since high school, so it was time to re-visit this story. But I have watched my favorite adaptation of this movie probably a million times by now (it is a Russian movie, made in the early 80s), and I know each scene and each line in it by hear. Because of that, re-reading this book was certainly a different experience. It was kind of hard to separate the movie and the book for me (thank god this Russian movie is very true to the original story). At the same time, because ...more

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