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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.
— Jun 16, 2026 01:23AM
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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.
— 13 hours, 52 min ago
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.
Daniel
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oh king james def coming back from the dead to have a word with his boyfriend about this shit
— Jun 23, 2026 12:50AM
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Oooh, Milady coming up. Chapter titles are an underappreciated feature in novels.
— Jun 22, 2026 02:40PM
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should we rate books by how annoyed we are when we have to set them down?
— Jun 21, 2026 01:53AM
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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.
— Jun 18, 2026 10:55PM
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the key to a happy servant is a good beating, apparently
wtf man. side eye at chapter 7, but otherwise going good.
— Jun 18, 2026 12:39AM
wtf man. side eye at chapter 7, but otherwise going good.
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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...
— Jun 15, 2026 01:59AM
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lol, I'm not sure I've ever seen a Classics Illustrated in the flesh. I remember there being a few copies something similar in one of the classrooms in grade school, but I think they were black and white, whereas the CI seems to have been in color. (I also remember thinking them deadly dull, but maybe I'm just conflating them with Prince Valiant. ;) I think one of them was Frankenstein.The great LLM in the cloud suggests maybe I'm thinking of the Pendulum Press versions, but who knows.
Daniel wrote: " ...I also remember thinking them deadly dull, but maybe I'm just conflating them with Prince Valiant. ..."
My apologies for triggering the retrieval of these suppressed memories. I imagine remembering Prince Valiant, page boi haircut, naked knees, sword, and all is a painful experience.
That's definitely a horrifying haircut to see on a grown-ass adult man, even if he wasn't walking around in an oversized sleeping t-shirt/mini-nightgown. The sword should be considered false advertising. All he ever does is sit on a horse staring out over the landscape and say mind-numbingly dull shit to the guys next to him.
Likely a Classics Illustrated comic book of The Three Musketeers?