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shella688 's review for:
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I know Milady de Winter killed people but truly she should've done worse.
Honestly? I didn't enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed The Count of Monte Cristo. The plot dragged at times, with people to-ing and fro-ing like seven times to achieve one result. I didn't care for any of the main four musketeers - I didn't like how they acted or thought - and whilst you can write stories with unsympathetic protagonists, you are very much supposed to see them as The Cool Ones.
They aren't cool. They're dicks.
Partly it's of its time I guess, and partly it's set in the past with the narrator noting more than once that although the way they act seems bad to us it was normal for them but still. Not a fan
I did like all the digs that Dumas kept taking at England though, they were great
Honestly? I didn't enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed The Count of Monte Cristo. The plot dragged at times, with people to-ing and fro-ing like seven times to achieve one result. I didn't care for any of the main four musketeers - I didn't like how they acted or thought - and whilst you can write stories with unsympathetic protagonists, you are very much supposed to see them as The Cool Ones.
They aren't cool. They're dicks.
Partly it's of its time I guess, and partly it's set in the past with the narrator noting more than once that although the way they act seems bad to us it was normal for them but still. Not a fan
I did like all the digs that Dumas kept taking at England though, they were great
"You know the history of the Saraband?"
"Pardieu! Know it!" replied d'Artagnan, who knew nothing about it, but who wishes to appear to know everything that was going on.