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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
So....I read over half this book (about 400 pages) and I just couldn't finish. Sure exciting adventure etc. but the story reaches its climax around page 200. Apparently the book is written by a variety of authors and Dumas compiles the story. Thus, that's my reasoning as to why I couldn't complete it. I went to the play afterwards and it was much easier to wrap it up in 3 hours instead of pulling myself through it :)
adventurous
funny
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
Yes
4 stars
I can't lie and say that I wasn't having a lot of fun rooting for the main characters and laughing every couple of pages.
Though honestly the "heroes" and "villains" in this book are very much grey to me. Our main characters have some unheroic traits and do questionable things, oh definitely! And I'm convinced that it's equally as easy to see Milady the hero and the Musketeers the villain as they are reversed!
I feel like so many things happen in this book that it was overwhelming and a bit hard to keep track of at times. I also only really only had fun with it after 150 pages and then was only invested and wanted to keep on reading like 300 pages in (my copy is about 550 pages).
I read an abridged and re-written version as a kid and I'm happy to have read the unabridged version now!
I can't lie and say that I wasn't having a lot of fun rooting for the main characters and laughing every couple of pages.
Though honestly the "heroes" and "villains" in this book are very much grey to me. Our main characters have some unheroic traits and do questionable things, oh definitely! And I'm convinced that it's equally as easy to see Milady the hero and the Musketeers the villain as they are reversed!
I feel like so many things happen in this book that it was overwhelming and a bit hard to keep track of at times. I also only really only had fun with it after 150 pages and then was only invested and wanted to keep on reading like 300 pages in (my copy is about 550 pages).
I read an abridged and re-written version as a kid and I'm happy to have read the unabridged version now!
I didn't like this. I stuck it out for a while, but the characters didn't seem to develop at all and it was just a series of scenes of swashbuckling humour.
This book took me almost THREE weeks to read, which is crazy. Admittedly, it’s been a busy three weeks, and maybe I just didn’t devote as much reading time to it as I should have, but it took three weeks, nonetheless. I don’t know if it was just because it’s a translated book, but it seemed a little harder for me to get through than most. The story was good, and some of the action scenes were quite fun, but overall, I felt like the story could have been edited down by a few hundred pages (or two) and still have been just as good.
I did feel like the characters were superbly developed. I enjoyed our lovable Musketeers, the awesome D’Artagnan and the evil antagonists, the Cardinal and Milady.
Would I recommend this to my BFF or my daughter? Probably not, although I have no real reason for not recommending it other than the reading was a bit tedious. I’m happy to say I’ve read it, as it’s a classic, but it’s not a book I would gush over.
3.5 out of 5 stars.
I did feel like the characters were superbly developed. I enjoyed our lovable Musketeers, the awesome D’Artagnan and the evil antagonists, the Cardinal and Milady.
Would I recommend this to my BFF or my daughter? Probably not, although I have no real reason for not recommending it other than the reading was a bit tedious. I’m happy to say I’ve read it, as it’s a classic, but it’s not a book I would gush over.
3.5 out of 5 stars.
This book has provided plenty of entertainment and intrigue, though I was a bit confused about where ultimately the musketeers' allegiance lay - it was drowning amidst the swashbuckling and being all romantic. :)
(King? Country? Queen?... whatever)
(King? Country? Queen?... whatever)
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book, while a classic, is about 100 pages too long. There's a whole section toward the end that has little to do with the title characters and seemed an overwrought plot device. That aside, there were several sections that were the swashbuckling adventure that were the reason I picked up the book. But, Dumas could've used an editor.
I read the book because everybody always refers to the "Three Musketeers" when talking about friends that are really close. Guess what?! There are FOUR main characters! Three are Musketeers and the 4th is a younger fellow who wants to be a Musketeer. It was a pretty good book - just like Monte Christo, Alexandre Dumas does a good job of keeping his characters interesting. Unlike Monte Cristo, this one was not nearly so dark & depressing. The last 150 pages or so kept me really enticed. I don't know if it's a book I'd re-read it but it was a fun story to follow.