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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I absolutely love to read books that - in someone's opinion - are boring, especially one that is so loved for being.....well.....boring. (I'm being very serious here. I'm someone who enjoys works from the French New Novelists, [Nouveau roman] from the movement popular during the 1950s [Claude Simon, Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michel Butor, the early work of J.M.G. Le Clezio, etc.]).
Thank you for the recommendation!
FULL DISCLOSURE: I actually read this as a child and loved it, and have been meaning to go back and re-read it. I recently purchased six Delphi Classics compilations, one of them being the Dumas collection. I also purchased one with a new translation.
Don
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Howdy:
I was actually surprised at my inability to plow through it. I thought I'd read it when I was about 10, but perhaps not; maybe I saw some movie and imagined I'd done so, although I'm not usually given to those sorts of flights of fancy. But I simply couldn't keep going with it. It's still sitting on my Kindle, bookmarked. Maybe I'll try picking it up again, but somewhere after the battle scene, I just yawned one too many times. There was a bit of dialogue (don't recall it now) that finally just put me off it. {shrug}.
I'll be interested to see what you think. Diff'rent strokes, diff'rent folks, and all that.
Hitch