UK Roleplayers Book of the Month - March

[w00hoo]

Must admit I had absolutely no interest in reading this, so I didn't bother!

Why not give the first couple of chapters a go (there's links to getting it free posted) and see what you reckon. I'm hoping to be pleasantly suprised, but it's really not a book I would ever choose to read straight off[1], so I'm viewing this as a reason to give it a go and see what happens.

[1] Don't fancy the genre, not in to period stuff, tend not to have enjoyed classics I have tried.

[Kaiserjez]

I've got 6 books on my iPhone to read so I'm not likely to start another one at the minute that I've got no interest in!

[Kaiserjez]

If it was graphic novel of the month I would defo join in though!

[Evilgaz]

Three Musketeers on ITV 3 at 3.50pm today (Sunday)

[dpmcalister]

Thanks for the heads-up. I've, obviously, missed the original start time, but I've just paused Star Trek so that I can set the recorder for the ITV3+1 start time

[Pete]

Hehe

Like film adaptations of the Count of Monte Cristo, film adaptations of TTM are really very poor indeed once one has sampled the heady delights of the novel. Even the sublime beauty of Rebecca DeMornay- couple to the "winning" power of Charlie Sheen - couldn't save this romp from being anything but slight.

In news about the book, the Musketeers (and d'Artagnan) have just concluded the Affair of the Queen's Diamonds - a mad dash to London, furious duels, affairs of the heart, a glimpse of the pant-tightening beauty of Milady de Winter, and Count Richelieu foiled and forced to adopt his cat's arse face - and now our young Gascon has just found Athos sheltering in a cellar. What madness is this? Athos, hiding in a cellar?

I shall find out what lies behind this odd behaviour tomorrow night. Huzzah!

[Evilgaz]

Like film adaptations of the Count of Monte Cristo, film adaptations of TTM are really very poor indeed once one has sampled the heady delights of the novel.

True of so many film adaptations of any novel.

The book should be on its way to me now. I'm awaiting it arrival with hungry eyes.

[w00hoo]

65 pages in. Lots of things that I remember from the films. The language is flowery (like Dickens, was Dumas paid by the word?) but I'm getting in to it and it is feeling a lot more completable now that I've started...

[w00hoo]

Just passed the 100 page mark last night.

Spoiler: show

And is it just me? Or is the Duke of Buckingham a waste of a skin, Stalker? Maybe he gets redeemed...

[Pete]

Hi Mik

Spoiler: show

What makes you think that about the Duke? Anne of Austria evidently welcomes his attentions, and he is without peer in all Europe, as evidenced by the chapter where d'Artagnan visits London.

I thought the Duke's language was class, both when wooing the Queen and when speaking of her to our Gascon. I'd love to be half as awesome when wooing in an RP session.

I'm reading the text via the Kindle, so page numbers ain't giving me a clue as to where you are in the narrative. Chapter numbers would work much better so that I don't inadvertently spoil anything for you, and vice versa.

Cheers
Pete

[w00hoo]

In the low teens from memory, but I'll update when I'm at home, where the book is. I guess if I was really bothered I could check if we have a copy on the shelves, I do work in a library after all...

[Evilgaz]

Apparently my books were dispatched on Friday. They're coming via 17th Century courier obviously.

[w00hoo]

If they were from Amazon Jersey then they probably had to cross to France by moonlit rowboat, be ridden hard to Paris while under close pursuit by the cardinals guard. There they will be disguised as French cook books while carried by a non-descript third party who would be willing to be denounced as a chef should it come to it before being handed off by use of an odd secret coded tap to the British Embassy where they'll be accidentally dropped on Libya...

[Pete]

Orlando Bloom is... The Duke of Buckingham.

Great quiff, great pants. I'm not feeling the boots so much... needs more monkey-toe action.

[Pete]

Aramis has just been revealed to have the soul of a member of the Pompey Crew.

I have begun a poem in verses of one syllable. That is rather difficult, but the merit in all things consists in the difficulty. I will read you the first canto. It has four hundred lines, and lasts a minute.

I've entered the rather slow-burning comic phase of the novel. It is not without amusing moments, but lacks for two things: bosoms and swords. I know that such things are coming up, so I'm content for now.

I'm just about to start Chapter 29, cheers
Pete