The 1700-1939 Book Club! discussion

This is for the discussion of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas chapters 56-68.

Amazing book. I've read film adaptation of the book but none of them is like the book. The book is much better.

Sorry I didn't post before! I really enjoyed this book and gave it five stars! I was glad lady Clark got caught but would have prefered her to go to jail. Someone in real life wouldn't be moved by her charms and set her free.

Who plans on reading Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later which is three to five volumes; The Vicomte de Bragelonne, (Ten Years Later), Louise de la Vallière, and The Man in the Iron Mask?

It was a realy super book, I love it. and give 4 star, so kind gentlemens, beautiful womens, blind-alley adventures... one of my art books :)

yes apselutley I think to read the twenty years after and the man in the Iron mask , ( i see the movie vefore from leonardo dicaprio, gerard deparieu)

I just finished it and was torn about how to rate it.
As a piece of history, a classic, I'd give it a four or five, but as far as how much I liked it personally...maybe a 2. I ended up giving it 3 stars, and the fact that I finished it at all shows that it is certainly readable!
I guess I'd rather be pissed off than bored any day.
So, here's what annoyed me:
I hated the ending, in particular. I hated how the female characters were treated (I know, I know. 21st-century and all that!) I hated how male bonding was glorified and allowed the friends to pretty much disregard (or decapitate!) anyone who bothered them.
Not my thing, in other words.

I totally agree with not liking how the females were treated and I did have a problem with fights to the death over trivial things and glorifying friends to fight against there friend's enemies with no clear reason. I read a lot of it like a comedy.

I read the book several years ago but for some reason kept likening it to a Monty Python romp. I just couldn't take it seriously but thought it great fun. I think for me the tone was set in the beginning when D'Artagnan with his head bandaged and a broken sword was still ready to fight.

Monty Python, indeed.
In particular, I giggled my head off when I read the chapter that actually begins with "It was a dark and stormy night." (I don't have my book with me but I am pretty sure it was in this section of the discussion).
Humor is a good way to look at it, and I do think Dumas had a sense of humor!

Jamie wrote: "I totally agree with not liking how the females were treated and I did have a problem with fights to the death over trivial things and glorifying friends to fight against there friend's enemies wit..."

I had similar thoughts. Going back to the branding of a 16 year old with a fleur de lis for "seducing" a priest. In this day and age the priest would be looked at as a sexual predator, and she would be considered an innocent victim.
And how about Athos giving his wife the death sentence when he saw that she was branded?

Matthew wrote: "Jamie wrote: "I totally agree with not liking how the females were treated and I did have a problem with fights to the death over trivial things and glorifying friends to fight against there frien..."

True. All while his friends went out to do the exact same thing.

Jamie wrote: "Matthew wrote: "Jamie wrote: "I totally agree with not liking how the females were treated and I did have a problem with fights to the death over trivial things and glorifying friends to fight aga..."

And can anyone blame her for using deception and intrigue as a means of survival. Athos was hunting her down from the very beginning. His counsel with D'Artagnan makes one wonder if he knew who she was all along. How could he not know that she was still alive? You would think that if he had hanged her, he would have made sure that he finished the job.
It finally took about 10 men (4 musketeers, De Winters, 4 lackeys, executioner) against 1 unprotected woman. It was a shameless fox hunt.