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4harrisons 's review for:
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
I first read this I was a teenager and really enjoyed it as a swashbuckling adventure. The morose yet dignified Athos was then and remains my favourite character (despite being regularly drunk). However this time around I didn't enjoy it as much as I expected to. It feels dated, and in cases poorly paced - and as the modern introduction to the edition I read points out quite unhistorical compared to for example Walter Scott, where the point in some ways is to follow a character who stands witness to historical events. Here rather the characters and story feel unhistorical without a strong sense of time and place.
There are bright spots - the breakfast at the siege of La Rochelle shows the daring buccaneers at their best - but once the full story of Milady De Winter is revealed, I found myself with more sympathy for her than the story expects you to have.
Anyway, still a good read just perhaps not as much fun as the 16 year old me found it.
There are bright spots - the breakfast at the siege of La Rochelle shows the daring buccaneers at their best - but once the full story of Milady De Winter is revealed, I found myself with more sympathy for her than the story expects you to have.
Anyway, still a good read just perhaps not as much fun as the 16 year old me found it.