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Originally Posted by tompe
I read it recently for the first time and I had read Phoenix Guard three times before reading The Three Musketeers for the first time and it was a strange experience. I liked it a lot but I think Steven Brust do the good things better so I will soon re-read his books again.
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I very nearly think I agree with you.
The problem with
The Three Musketeers is that the behavior of the main characters looks a bit shabby by contemporary standards. (Even the author thought that while writing it, apparently, based on the number of comments interspersed in the text about how some practice was common at the time of the story, though it would be considered inappropriate at the time of the writing.) In particular, I'm not too impressed with d'Artagnian at the moment, particularly with regard to his behavior towards women.
Khaavren comes across as a much nicer fellow. (I'm now re-reading at least part of
The Phoenix Guards before finishing
The Three Musketeers.)