Oh, I'm glad I read it too--just because it's one of those classics that everyone's supposed to be familiar with. I don't quite see why it's considered a classic, though. After reading it, I read the scholarly introduction in the BN edition and looked at some of the analyses and critiques in various online study guides. I was surprised that they seemed generally favorable to and admiring of the musketeers--pretty much the opposite of what we here thought of them. I don't remember any of them mentioning the blatant misogyny. If kids are reading it today, I hope they're not being taught that the musketeers are just a free-wheeling, rambunctious group of charming scoundrels.
Is anyone here familiar with the
Musketeers Mystery series by Sarah D'Almeida? I discovered I have the first book in my Calibre library, though I never read it. (For some reason I didn't realize it was about the Dumas musketeers till just now reading the blurb.) The five books of the series are all in Kindle Unlimited, by the way.
FYI, YouTube has the
Douglas Fairbanks silent movie version; I hope to watch that one of these days. But first I have to watch the Mickey Mouse version, which I remembered I have on DVD--somewhere. I even found a
Barbie version on YouTube--but, alas, she's not playing Milady.