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, 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, 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, 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 [...]
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