Monday, November 17, 2008
 
Book Report: The Three Musketeers (abridged) by Alexandre Dumas (1974)
I thought this book would be a movie tie-in book because it has the actors from the movie arrayed on the front cover, and it has action stills in the photo section in the middle of the book. Oh, but no. Instead of being based on the script for the film, it is truly just an abridged form of the book (which I read in its entirety last year).

So it lacks some of the more campy humorous bits that the film had. It's a pale version of the complete book and unrelated at all to the movie, but I suppose it does distill some of the plot points that the film captured from the original book. However, some scenes I recall from both the book and the movie (breakfast at the seige of La Rochelle) have been abridged from this edition entirely.

Probably not worth the read unless you're a fan of Readers' Digest Condensed Books, but might be worth your time if you're into treatments of Dumas.

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The Three Musketeers Exclusive Movie Edition abridged

- posted by Brian J. @ 6:51 AM
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