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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
More fun to read than I expected for its age. Women don't fare very well in this story, but the swashbuckling musketeers come across as the superheroes of their time.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
While I found The Count of Monte Cristo more compelling, The Three Musketeers is excellent. It's witty, has great adventure and comradery, and quite cunning villains.
adventurous
challenging
funny
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
The first third was great fun for me, the second third was okay, and the final third meandered a bit and culminated in tragedy that seemed incommensurate with what preceded. But Dumas's characters are alive and his writing always kept me coming back.
More than its action, this book's strengths are its liveliness and its humor. That humor is sometimes a little too broad for my tastes, yet it remains remarkably modern.
These characters have become such an intrinsic part of popular culture, so it is somewhat surprising to finally read the original novel and discover that, on the whole, they're a bunch of useless doofuses. (Though they do have their moments.) Milady de Winter is by far the most interesting of the bunch -- I don't say this to make some kind of radical feminist statement; she is definitely a murderer and an awful person, but she leaps off the page in ways that no other character manages.
Also, murderer or not, Athos comes off as a real asshole in his previous dealings with her. Yikes, dude. You're supposed to be the "reasonable" one!
These characters have become such an intrinsic part of popular culture, so it is somewhat surprising to finally read the original novel and discover that, on the whole, they're a bunch of useless doofuses. (Though they do have their moments.) Milady de Winter is by far the most interesting of the bunch -- I don't say this to make some kind of radical feminist statement; she is definitely a murderer and an awful person, but she leaps off the page in ways that no other character manages.
Also, murderer or not, Athos comes off as a real asshole in his previous dealings with her. Yikes, dude. You're supposed to be the "reasonable" one!