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| Original Title: | La reine Margot |
| ISBN: | 0786880821 (ISBN13: 9780786880829) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.cadytech.com/dumas/work.php?key=301 |
| Series: | The Last Valois #1 |
| Characters: | Marguerite de Valois, Henri IV of France, Charles IX of France, Henri III of France, François duke d'Anjou, Comte La Môle, Henri de Guise, Gaspard de Coligny, Catherine de' Medici |
| Setting: | France |
Alexandre Dumas
Paperback | Pages: 542 pages Rating: 4.14 | 10973 Users | 338 Reviews
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| Title | : | Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois (The Last Valois #1) |
| Author | : | Alexandre Dumas |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 542 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 1994 by Miramax Books (first published 1845) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. France |
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SO much better than I expected it to be. The book is long, but the story moves at such a fast pace and so much happens that you don't even notice. All the characters are fascinating, and my personal favorite was Catherine d'Medici, who wins the award for Worst Mother-in-Law Ever. I swear, she spends all her time trying to poison just about everybody in the book. She kills one person with poisoned gloves, then fills somebody's lamp with poisoned oil so the vapors smother them, and then she poisons the pages of a book. It's evil and amazing.The only reason this book doesn't get five stars is simple: NO SEX! (yes, I am trashy. Get over it.)
Dumas has no problem describing the St. Bartholomew's Massacre, the gross symptoms of Catherine's poisons, and lengthy torture sessions, but he refuses to tell us anything about what goes on in the secret house where Margot and her friend meet their boyfriends. These people were going at it like coked-up rabbits for the entire book, but based on Dumas's descriptions, the farthest anyone ever got was a kiss on the forehead.
Luckily, there happens to be a French movie based on the book, and although it takes serious liberties with Dumas's plot, it's rated R, and for a very good reason. Read Queen Margot, then see the movie version if, like me, you have a dirty mind and a weakness for smut.
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Ratings: 4.14 From 10973 Users | 338 ReviewsJudgment Appertaining To Books Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois (The Last Valois #1)
I was sorely dissapointed in Alexandre Dumas for this book.You see, I couldn't let myself get attached to the characters. It seemed everyone was having an affair! >.> (correction, everyone was having an affair, the people who weren't mentioned of having one were probably not central to the plot enough.)Margot, married to Henry, loves La Mole. la Mole loves her. Henry loves Madam de Suave. Madam De Suave's husband is not central but probably loves someone too. Cocunus (sp?) loved Margaret'sI LOVE the first 3/4 of this book. It's full of action, humor, wit, and a little romance. Also, Queen Margot herself: gorgeous, smart, and clear-headed yet passionate. I love Dumas' use of suspense through implication in this book - as when he describes the events leading up to a poisoning at great length but without ever explicitly saying what is happening until after it's over. Lots of very funny French irony (my favorite bits were dialogue in which the various royal folks were pretending they
Thinking as an adolescent, this book deserves 5 stars. Thinking like I do right now, this book gets from me only 2 stars. Nice romantic story but endless dialogues and somewhere between pages 190 and 195 I decided I cannot continue reading it. At first I was captivated by the story, but as I said, the tiresome dialogues were too much.
Everything I need to know about French history, I learned from Dumas :)
2.5/5Reading this answers the question of whether I'm entertained by adventure novels anymore. I'm still bent on rereading The Count of Monte Cristo, but that has the argument of past enjoyment gunning for it, as well as one of its animated adaptations being one of my favorite television series of all time. It wasn't too long ago that I read Georges and felt the reading worthwhile, but that work was pursued more for reasons of sociology than entertainment, so while the action may not have
Dumas, the Rossini of literature, churned out an impressive amount of his time's pop-historical novels. He wrote about most, if not all, time periods this side of year 1000. But boy are they fun! (much like Rossini's silly but terribly convoluted yet always lighthearted operas, his books never let deep thoughts/issues get in the way of proper fun). I got into Dumas when I was very young (the books were all over the place at my parents', my aunt's and my grandparents') and THIS, a battered,
This is probably my favourite Dumas novel but there's something about this translation that doesn't feel quite right. I suspect it's Dumas rather than the translator: there's an elusive tone and register to his prose which just doesn't translate into English in any seamless fashion.That apart, this is a brilliant story: set in 1572, it concerns itself with the French wars of religion, especially the St Bartholomew's Eve massacre when Catholics slaughted Huguenots (Protestants) on the streets of
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