The Three Musketeers in James Mustich's 1000 Books to Read Before You Die

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

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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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Aug 11, 2010 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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I finally finished it. Over seven hundred pages. And I finished it.

It was fantastic. Plots and schemes. Duels. Men thrown in prisons. Gambling. Sword play. Admirable women and treacherous women. Friendships among men. Loyalty. Struggles for power.

My favorite read of the year. Not sure anything else could even come close.

To be honest, that really surprises me. I never dreamed I would love The Three Musketeers like I do.

Ever read something you'd expected to hate but found yourself loving?

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Apr 02, 2023 Jack rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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Would have loved this when I was 12. But reading this as an adult was kind of horrifying. Yeah. The three musketeers and D’Artagnan—definitely the bad guys. They go around killing people, robbing people, and are textbook psychopaths with no regard for the collateral damage. And honestly, it’s kind of boring. There’s so much action it stops making sense after a while.

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Apr 14, 2018 Rachel rated it liked it · review of another edition

Read this aloud to the kids as we prepared for France, but as it took exactly forever, we didn’t finish till well after our trip. It’s a fun romp with funny bits galore, but we all agreed that none of the characters are particularly people we would like to know in real life, and there is a lot of misogyny. We were glad to finally finish.

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