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The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

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

Shelves: hf-17th-century, 3ms, audio-books, historical-fiction, fiction-19th-century, french-literature, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, read-2014, book-and-movie

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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Oct 24, 2011 Ellen Librarian rated it really liked it

A fun read that had more cynicism and less swashbuckling than I anticipated. The Musketeers (there are actually four of them) are not quite the noble warriors I expected. In fact, they're more endearingly rogue than noble.

One thing that struck me is that the story seems like two books in one. It begins as a story about male valor and exploits and then, about halfway through, the great villainess Milady takes over. It's as if Dumas started out to write one book and then, midstream, wrote another. ...more

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Apr 14, 2018 Rachel rated it liked it

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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Jan 31, 2011 Jenny rated it really liked it

Dumas is such a talented storyteller! This exciting adventure details the friendship of D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers: Porthos, Aramis, & Athos. Themes for discussion include friendship, courage, loyalty, aristocracy, social standing, mortality, and love. ...more

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Apr 09, 2019 Douglas Beagley rated it liked it · review of another edition

The expository adventures—the hero arriving in Paris, meeting his friends, and achieving his initial successes—are very well written and realized. Clever writing, madcap comedy, etc.

I read the next two or three adventures (up through the completion of the Diamond Studs and into the kidnapping of Constance, and was abruptly all done.

This is a deserved classic, but like Pickwick Papers I couldn’t find any compelling reason to continue reading. The writing is good, where pacing and abruptness mak ...more

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Feb 14, 2014 Tom Britz rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I surprised myself by how much I really like this book. Even though I have seen the movie (the 1948 version) the book held secrets that the movie didn't. This is one classic that has justified and kept it's claim! ...more

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