Holy shit! This book is insane. I'm half way through it, and I can't even express how I feel about this book. Masterpiece? Doesn't give it justice. I've never done this in my life over a book (and I've read well over 500 books for the last 30 years), I got emotional during some parts of this book. I have ADHD and it's very hard for me to focus when reading, unless it's an extremely good book like this I guess. This probably sounds silly to some. The reason why I'm only just finding out about this book is because I'm new to the West. An immigrant if you will, and never heard of this book until a couple of weeks ago. If you haven't read this book; I highly recommend it. Alexandre Dumas is a genius.

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[–] darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The recent French language movie was absolutely superb as well, one of my favourite movies I've ever seen (as long as you can handle subtitles)

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for this post! I read The Three Musketeers ages ago while in middle school (pre-teenage). I'm sure I didn't get get much more out of it than sword fights and adventure at the time. I'd always meant to go back and read more Dumas. This post (and the comments about Dracula, another book I read first in middle school and enjoyed even more when I read it again last year for Halloween) has encouraged me to add to the top spot in my "to read" list.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It is a masterpiece. If you like the genre, I'd like to recommend Der Schwedische Reiter (The Swedish Cavalier in english). It is the very definition of adventure, mystique, vengeance, and love. The beauty of it made me very emotional. I should re-read it...!

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Kind of ajacent but if you havent watched V for Vendetta there is a pretty good scene talking about The Count of Monte Cristo.

I would recommend finishing the book first because i dont know if there are any spoilers.

Bonus points if you watch it on Fifth of November

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