The Three Musketeers is an exciting piece of fiction set in France in the years 1626-28, when Charles I was King of England and Louis XIII was King of France | |
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From then on, it is a swashbuckling adventure full of intrigues, sword fights, heartbreak and much more | Many of its sequences--the Diamond Studs, Milady's seduction of Felton, the attempt of D'Artagnan and The Three to rescue Constance--move with remarkable rapidity |
She is also asked to keep tabs on a troublesome young guard, D'Artagnan, who seems to be thwarting the Cardinal's plans through sheer luck and Gascon audacity.
And as soon as these historical characters disappeared from the book did my enjoyment evaporate as well | D'Artagnan, I, too, would die for her! I couldn't make any sense of what transpired here, especially in the last third of the book |
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He then ran away and took the name Athos, under which he served the French king as a musketeer | Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde or Will Rogers are my style |
Equally naturally, it all ends up very tragically indeed.
Since they don't seem to be paid much to be musketeers they are constantly grifting off of other people | I have been, on occasion, accused of some sort of self-set elitism which suffuses my opinions and critiques on literature |
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Taken literally they would be abject cads | I know what you're going to say |
There's even MORE pathos, chivalry, swordplay, hails of bullets, swooning maidens, and truly an evil Cardinal and a nasty Milady to butt heads against.
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