Tag Archives: Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers (insert sad trombone noise here)
Here’s the sad trombone noise… My rating for this surprised me, and I imagine it might be a surprise to others. One star?? A swashbuckling adventure novel beloved for a couple of centuries? Yeah, well. I’ve tried to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, audiobook, John Lee, oh God the misery, The Three Musketeers
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The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas / Bill Homewood
This = long. But it’s a long book. The spoiler-free short version: The Count of Monte Cristo is an extraordinary, long, complex (as in, takes a large chart to keep relationships straight) work with a very simple story idea: a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Bill Homewood, The Count of Monte Cristo
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