The kind of person who needs an obsession

[snapes_nightie]

Once upon a time...

When I was ten years old, I read the 'Three Musketeers' for the fist time. Full of melodrama, endearing characters and a good old-fashioned good vs. evil struggle, it completely blew my mind. Assisted by the knowledge that by praising a 19th century pseudo-classic (too young to understand that it is usually left off the list of

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Three Musketeers

[excessiveperky]

Yes! Another Dumas fanatic! I was never able to track down Louise de la Valliere, but I think I have a copy of something Porthos-based in Xerox format somewhere I don't remember as being in the actual 3 Musketeers canon. I strongly recommend Neal Stephenson's QUICKSILVER and its two companion volumes, even if you haven't read THE CRYPTONOMICON yet. I never really knew what the Trial of the Pyx was before (ignorant Statesian and all that), or how extremely insane Isaac Newton really was. I love those Huge Monstrous Novels you live in for weeks on end anyway, that's why I write them!

Re: Three Musketeers

[snapes_nightie]

Ah, I should have guessed

[athenakt]

Congrats on reading TTM in French! I hadn't gotten into that story; I was caught by Dumas' The Count de Monte Cristo, first in the 50's black and white movie, then the book (also not noticing the word abridged), then the library "OMG it's huge" version. Years ago I found and bought a four book set of the full version for myself, published in the style of the collector's items older books. :)

Hugs re: the boy trouble. Ugh.

[snapes_nightie]

Ooh, the Count! Thanks for reminding me - that's another which would bear re-reading now I'm older! *Heads straight for eBay*
Talking of film adaptations, coincidentally the silly romping 1970s version of TTM (Raquel Welch, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain etc) was on TV yesterday - so much fun!

[athenakt]

Wow, that's quite a grouping there.