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The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
The expository adventures—the hero arriving in Paris, meeting his friends, and achieving his initial successes—are very well written and realized. Clever writing, madcap comedy, etc.
I read the next two or three adventures (up through the completion of the Diamond Studs and into the kidnapping of Constance, and was abruptly all done.
This is a deserved classic, but like Pickwick Papers I couldn’t find any compelling reason to continue reading. The writing is good, where pacing and abruptness makes you laugh aloud, but it lacks some key element of character and purpose that I need to enjoy a book.
I read the next two or three adventures (up through the completion of the Diamond Studs and into the kidnapping of Constance, and was abruptly all done.
This is a deserved classic, but like Pickwick Papers I couldn’t find any compelling reason to continue reading. The writing is good, where pacing and abruptness makes you laugh aloud, but it lacks some key element of character and purpose that I need to enjoy a book.