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Summary: WTF IS WRONG HERE!
Review: Ummm, I think something is wrong here. The reviews are for Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World (a great book BTW), but they are listed under Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (also a good book).Anyway, pick a book and buy it, either is good and both are about equally long and hard to put down. I think I'll have to email amazon.com's tech staff to fix this problem. Either that or I'll have to use some profanity here to draw attention to the situation ;)
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Summary: The Three Musketeers
Review: I loved this book, it is a wonderful example of interweaving historical fact with fictional romance and drama. d'Artagnan is the perfect hero, a young wild eyed musketeer to be, who wants to live his destiny. All in all, a wonderful read.
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Summary: The three musketeers:A romantic masterpiece.
Review: This book is great for all the readers up to exciting adventures. The lifes and ded of Athos, Portos, Aramis and D'Artagnan will leave you breathless , hungry to read yet desperate not to rich the end of this captivating tale. (Also recomend The man in the iron mask.)
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Summary: Great story, decent ending
Review: What an adventure! The first in the Three Musketeers series leaves nothing to desire, save a more satisfying conclusion. A little difficult for an 8th grader, but no regrets on reading it. Dumas is a clever author who kept the story alive. Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and d'Artagnan are a pleasant bunch. I don't know about others who have read this, but I thought this was a lot of story. Not in the number of pages, but in that when I finished, I thought of all the events that had occured in the book and was astonished at how much fit into those pages. This is definitely something you should read, I give it 4.5 stars. I would have given it 5 if the conclusion had been better. I just finished it today, the conclusion was satisfactory, but awkward. I was relieved when I came to Amazon and discovered sequels, many sequels at that! I intend to read them all, eventually.
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Summary: Not Quite as Good as I'd Hoped!
Review: Although I'm a lover of historical fiction, especially the 19th century historical romances (read "historical adventures"), I'd never read this one. So I figured I had to finally attempt such a classic of the genre. Well, it was enjoyable but not really first class, I'm sorry to say. Not up there with IVANHOE or THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (which, itself, is somewhat flawed) or H. Rider Haggard's ERIC BRIGHTEYES, to name a few. DUMAS' famous classic is a tale of a young country bumpkin of the lower Gascon nobility come to the big city (Paris) to make his fortune (by joining the king's elite guard, known as the Musketeers). He quickly stumbles into trouble, even before reaching Paris, and never manages to get clear of it again as one thing leads to another. He hooks up early on with three Musketeers of the guard whom he inadvertently offends and then, rather than dueling each to the death as they demand and he agrees to, he ends up, purely by circumstance (and his naive loyalty to the king), on their side. This all leads to further intrigue and mayhem including a somewhat episodic adventure taking D'Artagnan (our hero) to England on the Queen's urgent business, to foil the Cardinal who is the king's highest and most relied-on minister, and the Queen's enemy at the same time. And the king's sporting competitor in matters of state and the military to boot! There is a sub-plot as well with a scheming and avaricious lady who works for the Cardinal and who has her own fish to fry, and lots of kidnappings and sword fights in the mix. But the characters never really come to life. D'Artagnan and his three friends in the Musketeers are cleverly written and bigger than life but hardly full-blooded or anything but one-dimensional. And D'Artagnan, himself, seems oddly simple and yet, inevitably is described as the cleverest of the four companions who are all a good deal older and more experienced than he is. More strange is D'Artagnan's skill with the sword. From the first he is described as being awkward and somewhat untutored, even in weaponry. Yet, from his initial crossing of swords, he inevitably bests all comers, no matter how much more experienced or skilled they are described as being. In fact, he seems to be the equal of, or superior to, his three Musketeer companions, surpassing them in this skill as he surpasses them in intelligence and cleverness. And yet he is an utter dolt in his dealings with women, a veritable mooning adolescent in the face of the the women he falls for. Nor do the women get treated particularly well by the writer, for their part. I suppose it was the convention of the times but they are all either beautiful and helpless (downright simple, actually) or they are beautiful and deadly. But never do they seem particularly real, from the Queen to Milady to D'Artagnan's objet d'amour, to the lovely servant girl who hankers after D'Artagnan, nearly as moon-eyed as he is about his fancied mistresses. All very strange indeed. I suppose the book broke ground in its time and it is somewhat fun to read, especially after the first third which takes rather a long time to set up all the plot dynamics. But I must say I was frustrated no end by the mindless meanderings and utterly frivolous actions of the four companions as they proceed through their adventures. I mean why would trained soldiers gamble away perfectly good, indeed outstanding, English mounts which they had been gifted, knowing how dear these were and how necessary to men like them? My favorite part of the tale, however, was the four friends' picnic under the Huguenot guns so perhaps this was just in character for them. But what characters! -- Stuart W. Mirsky
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Summary: Great story line- a little too wordy
Review: I really liked this book. My favorite character was Milady, even though she was the vilaness. I thought she was very smart and a very good actress.
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Summary: I thought it was the best book I've ever read!
Review: This is a fun, action packed book. It's full of adventure and mysterious danger. I'm in the fifth grade and although it was long, it was very worth the effort to read. I love to read all the time. I've read 16 books in the past year, and this was my favorite!
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Summary: Not exactly my bag...
Review: I guess I'm not much for swashbucklers. I thought Dumas' portrayal and treatment of women was pretty shabby. The Musketeers and D'Artagnan had a strange code of values, as far as I am concerned- their attitudes about honor, class, dueling, women, gambling, and so on just don't make sense to me. I thought they were irresponsible, self-important jerks. Milady could have been a really fabulous character, but Dumas made her too one-sided out of sheer misogeny. I thought she was the coolest female in the story anyway.
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Summary: The best book I have ever read!
Review: Le Trois Mousquetaire is my favourite book. D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis team up to save Anne of Austria. Anyone who love sword fights or adventure should read this book. Alexander Dumas is the best writer ever! PS. If anyone has read this book and greatly appeciates Alexander Dumas's writing, please email me. Thank you.
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Summary: All for One and One for All
Review: The story of the Three Musketeers is really the story of how D'artagnan became the Fourth Musketeer.D'Artagnan overcomes many obstacles and finaly convinces Cardinal Richelieu of his sincerity.The true villain of the story isn't the Cardinal,but his ruthless agent,Milady de Winter, who takes much into her own hands in her revenge on D'Artagnan and his friends.Athos is the noblest musketeer of them all,having come through tragedy which he only gradualy reveals to his friends.Athos becomes D'Artagnan's best friend in the musketeers,while Porthos provides laughs and Aramis shows a sensitive,poetic side.The tale has much of actual French history,and a large percentage of the characters have definite historical counterparts.Dumas is one of the best authors when it comes to historical fiction.
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