Posted in Best Author Ever, Musketeers, Rants, Swashbuckling on January 20, 2008 | No Comments »
My girlfriend is currently reading The Three Musketeers for the first time, which naturally fills me with delight. That she is reading the most swashbuckling of all novels, by my favorite author of all time, and reading the same beaten copy that began my love for Dumas, is wonderful. It’s also a great way to [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Cool Stuff, Swashbuckling on November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Gasp… sputter… incredulity… Why did no one tell me?!
Explains The New Yorker:
This long-lost novel by the nineteenth-century master of the swashbuckler was discovered in decidedly twentieth-century fashion, on microfilm in the National Library in Paris. A breathless seven hundred and fifty pages, the unfinished manuscript nominally concerns a young velvet-suited nobleman “whose pallor bespoke a [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Movies, Musketeers, Reviews, Swashbuckling on September 4, 2007 | 4 Comments »
So, apparently Turner Classic Movies is the place to go for strange, obscure, generally not-good swashbucklers. (For the record, they show alot of good movies too.) Not long after my recent discovery of the abysmal The Black Knight, I was treated to a double bill of films starring someone I’d never heard of: Louis Hayward. [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Comics, Cool Stuff, Movies, Pirates, Swashbuckling on August 28, 2007 | No Comments »
I haven’t intended for this blog to become a look at only comic books and movies, I swear it. Prose coverage is, as always, in the works as well, and meant to be the bulk of what is done here. Nonetheless, I must share with you a cool new cover, and the greatest team-up of [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Comics, Musketeers, Reviews, Swashbuckling on July 25, 2007 | No Comments »
So, the other day I finally broke down and bought the first issue of Marvel Illustrated’s The Man In the Iron Mask, which I discussed before. I suppose when you come right down to it I really do have to give anything based on a Dumas work at least a small shot. Pity I wasn’t [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Musketeers, Mystery, Pérez-Reverte, Reviews, Swashbuckling on July 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Forgive me for stealing my title from the review excerpt on the cover for The Club Dumas, but it really sums up the book quite nicely.
It is a rare occurrence (for me, at least) when reading a book will really make me wish that I could have a conversation with the author. Not a [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Comics, Musketeers, Swashbuckling on July 11, 2007 | 6 Comments »
One last Dumas-related post before I move on to something else (or don’t and keep writing about Dumas).
I was buying comic books this afternoon (Wednesday is always new comics day, for those who don’t know) and ran across a graphic adaptation of Dumas’ The Man In the Iron Mask. I’d known for awhile that Marvel [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Swashbuckling on July 10, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I would apologize for having two Alexandre Dumas-related posts in a row, but… Dumas is the best ever, and that’s that. Anyway, whenever a new translation of a Dumas work appears, it is imperative that I fawn over it, and so this new edition of Georges must be pointed out.
Now, since I read an earlier [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Musketeers, Mystery, Pérez-Reverte, Swashbuckling on July 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I generally try to avoid going on too much about a book that I’m in the middle of (thereby leaving more for me to say when I actually review it) but I have to say that The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte is off to a monumentally good start in my opinion. (Since I quote [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Reviews, Swashbuckling on July 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Utmost apologies for taking so long to get to this review, which I promised waaaay back in my first post. But, finally, here we are.
However anxious one is to reach one’s goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.
p.417
My favorite author of all time, Alexandre Dumas, wrote The Women’s [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Thriller on June 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I discovered a very interesting bit of information today about my favorite book of all time: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
Dumas, of course, often incorporated historical figures into his books, but generally less so when said book had a contemporary setting. Although Monte Cristo takes place over a good deal of time, [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Swashbuckling on June 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »
There is no better reminder of what a huuuuge dork I am than when I slaver with anticipation over something that hardly anyone else even cares about. The recent release of The Women’s War by Alexandre Dumas served as one such grievous reminder.
This being my inaugural post, I should probably clarify, for those [...]
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