Hector de Sainte-Hermine was the weakest part of the novel and did annoy me but I did wonder how much of that was down to Dumas having to get an audience reading the story in serial form had to do with that - it doesn't suit long character development.
I came out of it thinking I was glad to have got to read it rather than disappointed it failed to live up to its potential.
It did feel like it was very unpolished from the original form it was published in and I suspect (hope?) Dumas would have polished out a lot of the flaws with the change of format from serial to a single novel.
I came out of it thinking I was glad to have got to read it rather than disappointed it failed to live up to its potential.
It did feel like it was very unpolished from the original form it was published in and I suspect (hope?) Dumas would have polished out a lot of the flaws with the change of format from serial to a single novel.
*MySmiley*
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
The Last Cavalier by Alexandre Dumas
- 04/11/2009 11:44:32 AM
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I think I probably liked it more than you
- 04/11/2009 02:53:35 PM
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Re: I think I probably liked it more than you
- 04/11/2009 02:55:41 PM
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