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What Members Thought
3.5 rounded up.
Nothing makes me feel like a youngster again quite like reading Dumas. He is a consummate storyteller and when you are reading the story is everything, you are immersed in it, you are suffering the confinement and the injustice and the suspense. The romance is necessary, but not terribly realistic, but then Dumas’ strength is action and it is his male characters who seize and keep your interest. Nobody watched Errol Flynn movies to see the fainting heroine...she was his prop.
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Nothing makes me feel like a youngster again quite like reading Dumas. He is a consummate storyteller and when you are reading the story is everything, you are immersed in it, you are suffering the confinement and the injustice and the suspense. The romance is necessary, but not terribly realistic, but then Dumas’ strength is action and it is his male characters who seize and keep your interest. Nobody watched Errol Flynn movies to see the fainting heroine...she was his prop.
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Excellent book!
I would have given this book 5 stars if the first few chapters weren't so boring and confusing. But once the story starts, it really takes off and draws you in. So much jealousy and obsession and revenge and misunderstanding and tulips! The pace and method of storytelling make you feel as if you are watching a movie unfold and the book manages to put a feel of action and movement even in sections where, on face value, very little is actually happening. I have not read Dumas' more famous works be
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