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Originally Posted by Dazrin
When I told my wife I finished it and what I thought of it her response was "Now you feel my pain!!" It is at the top of her "hated books" list.
Enjoy the movies and have fun with the three musketeers that our culture wants to believe in and not the four imbeciles that were actually written about.
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Yes, that's the interesting thing. Normally, I'm sort of anal about that--I feel that the books should be the driver, and any movie version(s) sort of a temporary entertainment, passing thing...but hell, in this case, NO version of the movie, even that ridiculous thing with the martial artist, is WORSE than Dumas' book.
And I'm fine with "getting over" all kinds of stuff in older books, of all kinds, from sexism to racism to this or that, but something about this one just sticks in my craw. They're such
worthless sods, you know? I can't quite wrap my head around, in what universe, in what day and age, could these guys have been viewed as remotely heroic, or emulous?
When I first encountered this--I was 13--I thought,
well, maybe I'll get it when I'm
older. Reading the classics is a required deal, in my family's homes; first, parents read them TO you, then you start reading them yourself, and so on and so forth. But I nearly got in the deep doo-doo over that one. Only one that was part of our list that I never could finish, to this DAY, and yes, I've even tried again, just in the last few years, for like the
fourth time.
Just can't get there from here. I can't even imagine trying to teach this, in the modern age...I mean, what do you say to the tween males, who would probably, being boys, love it at that age, and the girls? Sheesh.
Hitch