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Summary: The Three Musketeers
Review: I read the book because I saw the movie The Man in the iron mask. D'Artagnan rode into a small French town of Meung on a April mourning in 1625. the pony he rode had a yellowy orange coat and a tail with no hair. Young D'Artagnan sat on its back proudly.he was on his way to Paris to become a kings Musketeer.D'Artagnan entered the court yard of Monsier de Trevikke's. This is were he met Athos,Porthos,Armis.Armis was seriosly wounded in the chest and the right shoulder. D'Artagnan tells them about the man who has a patch over his left eye and a scare on his face which stole his letter from his father. D'Artagnan whated revenge. D'Artagnan managed toget into a duel with the Musketeers. Instead of fighting with them he ends up fighting with them aginst the cardnails Guard. D'Artagnan states you are not three, we are four. I may not wear a uniform of a Musketeer but I have a heart of one then Arthos cried,one for all and all for one. They defeated the cardnails Guards. The kingsummered the four friends to the palace to congartulate them. For several mounths D'Artagnan trained and spent all his free time with the Musketeers theres going to be a ball at the Palace. D'Artagnan, Arthos, Porthos, and Aramis go found the duke.D'Artagnan finds the man who toke his fathers letter he wounded him three times crying out one for Athos! one for Porthdos!one for Aramis! D'Artaganan had to get back as quickily as possible to take the duke back to the queen D'Artagnan was singed to watch the ball he remaned at his post until 4:oo A.M.The four Musketeers head back to Paris as they approuched the gates of the Palace and were stopped by the Cardnails Guards D'Artagnan was taken to the Cardnails study the Cardnail whated to kill him but D'Artagnan had a paper that was singed by the Cardnai. The Cardinal rised up the warrant. Then the Cardinal started writing. It was a commission as a lieutenant in the kings Musketeers. Thats how Porthos soon would be wearing the clothing of a nobelman and D'Artagnan would take the place of the third Musketeer. I thought that the book was good but it needs more blood and guts. Alexander Dumas was hafe blake and half white. He started writing historical novels. He wroght more than 600 books more than any other man dead or alive. He died penniless in 1870.
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Summary: My favorite book....an amazing work of art
Review: I've read a different publication of the book, but it is also the unabridged version..with a different editor. Although to some history may seem boring, Dumas spices it up and makes a painting from a blank canvas. In the whole three musketeers series you get to know many famous Historical characters...Colbert..Richelieu...Louis XIII & Louis XIV, etc. Dumas also has a sense of humor, and the book never gets boring. After reading it you find you know all the characters so well, and why did this one have to die, and why didn't so-and-so kill so-and-so, and you become a part of the story. It is all so fabulous i couldn't stop reading it for a second, and after every chapter I love Dumas even more. No one should miss this experience.
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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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