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ok, this part feels like filler. how they lost their horses, needing new uniforms...

Huh, I didn't realize we got that bit of info so early in the book. Def some very wtf behavior from Athos. Aramis's chapter was more entertaining.

So, that exchange w Mousqueton? was the first thing to bear any resemblance to the conversations in Brust's Dumas pastiches.

This is going slower than I expected, not because I'm not loving it, but I seem to have less time to read lately. Must find and destroy the time suck.

oh king james def coming back from the dead to have a word with his boyfriend about this shit

Oooh, Milady coming up. Chapter titles are an underappreciated feature in novels.

should we rate books by how annoyed we are when we have to set them down?

Wait, THAT Buckingham?! King James is gonna be pissed.

This is interesting to read after Treasure Island. On a sentence level RLS is much better. (To be expected. Even if Dumas' french were as good, and the translator a genius, the double constraint would make it near impossible. But: Dumas is much more digressive, affecting the pacing. POV is more fragmented. Yet despite the narrative distance in both D'Artagnan is far more engaging than Jim as a protagonist.

the key to a happy servant is a good beating, apparently
wtf man. side eye at chapter 7, but otherwise going good.

I don't think I've read this since I was in grade school but I don't remember it being so funny 😄 looked at 3 other translations but I'll stick with the Hobson. No idea what translation I read when I was a kid.

21st century translation of a 19th century french book is kinda pushing the boundaries of what my little pre 1900 born author thing is meant to do, but i haven't made it this far into anything else ive picked up since treasure island, so...

3. "Old Mortality" Very good piece, but requires a lot of context to do more than sense the edges of his meaning.

Could have done without the second one.

Reading this properly this time and the first essay was hilarious. :)

ending felt a bit easy, but excellently plotted overall

thwart the coracle!!! 🦜 hurray for ereader dictionaries

enjoying this a lot, more for the writing than investment in the characters, but not getting as much time to read it as I'd like, just a short while before bed, so progress has been slower than expected.

still reading this in brief moments here and there. still good!

treachery! 🦜🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️😄
very consistent chapter length

losing hope that this is gonna give me what i wanted from it...

absolutely gorgeous writing, this was an excellent pick.

this is awesome

waffled over which rls book to pick for a while, but i guess if it's good enough for henry james it's good enough for me. will this be the start of 19th c summer? we'll see

very readable, but thus far it has not been giving me the thing i picked it up for. not up to the relevant eras though, so i'll give it more time.

Considering trying to only read fiction from people born before 1900 for a month or so. Possible I'd only read one and bail on it, but I crave writing from people who weren't afraid to load up a sentence with clauses and qualifiers. Hmmm

awesome, as always 🌈👍💯 :)