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So, that exchange w Mousqueton? was the first thing to bear any resemblance to the conversations in Brust's Dumas pastiches.

This is going slower than I expected, not because I'm not loving it, but I seem to have less time to read lately. Must find and destroy the time suck.

oh king james def coming back from the dead to have a word with his boyfriend about this shit

Oooh, Milady coming up. Chapter titles are an underappreciated feature in novels.

should we rate books by how annoyed we are when we have to set them down?

Wait, THAT Buckingham?! King James is gonna be pissed.

This is interesting to read after Treasure Island. On a sentence level RLS is much better. (To be expected. Even if Dumas' french were as good, and the translator a genius, the double constraint would make it near impossible. But: Dumas is much more digressive, affecting the pacing. POV is more fragmented. Yet despite the narrative distance in both D'Artagnan is far more engaging than Jim as a protagonist.

the key to a happy servant is a good beating, apparently
wtf man. side eye at chapter 7, but otherwise going good.

I don't think I've read this since I was in grade school but I don't remember it being so funny 😄 looked at 3 other translations but I'll stick with the Hobson. No idea what translation I read when I was a kid.

21st century translation of a 19th century french book is kinda pushing the boundaries of what my little pre 1900 born author thing is meant to do, but i haven't made it this far into anything else ive picked up since treasure island, so...