![]() LONG AGO in France, on a bright spring morning-in April of 1626, to be exact-a young man from the country, of noble but somewhat awkward bearing, walked firmly down a lonely road outside Paris with the near-certain belief that within the hour he would be dead. Once I'm allowed to buy books again, anyway. I'm a little sad that I don't actually own it, and it's going back to the library, but that's easily remedied. But I liked the way it all came together. Possibly if you found a good abridgement, that'd be worthwhile. Not all of it is happy fun adventure, I suppose: there are some bits that drag. Possibly Milady gets the most character building, since she's so evil and we see so much of her during the last part of the book. For the most part we don't learn much about the musketeers, only what they are doing at the immediate time. It isn't that heavy on characterisation, I suppose. It's exciting to read - it only took me so long because I got distracted: shame on me - and fun. ![]() The Three Musketeers is an unrepentant adventure story, with some politics and romance thrown in. I've found the Penguin "Read Red" series, so far as I've read them, to be pretty well translated and easy to read. ![]() I suspect my failure was partly due to lack of interest, and partly due to a bad translator. ![]()
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