Lizzie - Classic Book Club

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I am Lizzie, and I am addicted to reading books, it is my whole life! I always have several books on the go, as well as thoughts about previous books going round in my head. So a place to record my thoughts about books seemed a good idea. I hope you will enjoy reading my thoughts, and I hope you will share your own thoughts too as I'd love to hear from fellow book addicts.

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Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

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Alexandre Dumas
Twenty Years After

I can’t help admiring Dumas' audacious writing style with The Musketeers series, as he essentially takes a few important events in history and tweaks them a bit, adds extra drama and adventure, condenses the timescales, and inserts his own fictional characters into real events! But it's wonderful, gripping, immersive reading! His passion for France shines through these books too, which is another thing I love. I find some parts of the books hard-going and they are enormous books to tackle, and I realise my knowledge of French history isn't good so I often need to step away from the novel in order to read more about the events and characters that he mentions, but it's always worth it as it’s all so fascinating (and I always love a good Wikipedia rabbit hole to go down!), and when you add Dumas' extra twirls of drama and adventure to these historical events and characters then they become even more gripping and exciting to read. I honestly often find myself gasping out loud when reading these books! Read the full review

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