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The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas, Marty Ross
Narrated by: David Ahmad, Rachel Atkins, Catherine Bailey, Ed Barry, Timothy Bentinck, Nicholas Boulton, Eliza Butterworth, Gunnar Cauthery, Stephen Critchlow, Adetomiwa Edun
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Summary

Swashbuckling classic adventure, with an updated twist placing Milady in the role of narrator. 

Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to - Porthos, Athos and Aramis, inseparable friends: the Three Musketeers. 

Soon part of their close band, D'Artagnan's loyalty to his new allies puts him in the deadly path of Cardinal Richlieu's machinations. And when the young hero falls in love with the beautiful but inaccessible Constance, he finds himself in a world of murder, conspiracy and lies, with only the Musketeers to depend on.

Featuring: Ian Abeysekera, David Ahmad, Rachel Atkins, Catherine Bailey, Ed Barry, Timothy Bentinck, Nicholas Boulton, Eliza Butterworth, Gunnar Cauthery, Stephen Critchlow, Adetomiwa Edun, William Ellis, Betsabeh Emran, Tony Gardner, Matt Gavan, Akin Gazi, Pete Gold, Colm Gormley, Chris Grahamson, Edward Harrison, David Holt, Will Howard, Frances Jeater, James MacCallum, Joel MacCormack, Roger May, Richard Morse, Harry Myers, Daniel Naddafy, James Parkes, Richard Reed, John Scougall, Lizzie Stables, Dan Starkey, Mark Straker, Timothy Watson, Ben Whitehead, Sarah Whitehouse and Hemi Yeroham.

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Sex, Sex and more Sex.

Every now and again I insist on getting a "classic" story to listen to in the car with my 12 & 14 year old boys, so it's not all teen angst. I vaguely remembered The Three Musketeers being swashbuckling fun with some romance so bought this without really thinking about it. Oh My Word ...

It starts with My Lady D'Winter naked in bed discussing how much she'd like more sex and basically carries on from there. Pretty much every character gets it off at some point, with sound effects. Don't get me wrong, it's very nicely done (kissy noises rather than porn, although there is some moaning) with lots of witty historical banter ("Madame you appear to be naked ...") but they are still DOING IT or talking about DOING IT. This is horribly embarrassing if you are 14, in the car with your mum, on the way to school (argh! noo! not again!!!) but hilarious if you are Mum.

Add to that the scream effects of torture, a naked woman choking to death on a horse and various gurgling deaths of people with swords / daggers through various bits, and I would definitely but this down as a 12 plus rating (possibly a 15 if you are sensitive). The hilarious banter, cracking story line and crystal clear sound effects saved me luckily, and they are keen to find out what happened. I don't think we'll keep it though. More research needed next time!!

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  • 04-10-19

Fantastic dramatisation of this classic...

What a superb dramatisation of Alexandre Dumas' classic.
A great story retold beautifully, with some fantastic acting alongside perfectly placed sound effects and music to really do justice to such a wonderful tale.
On this occasion, the story is retold by Milady de Winter, providing a novel twist to the tale.
I've really enjoyed Audible's dramatisations, and The Three Musketeers is truly an exceptional addition to the collection.

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Delightfully silly -- just like the original

This dramatization of The Three Musketeers splendidly captures the childish exuberance of the original story -- everything about it is silly, but it's silly in an engaging and clever way. The script and acting do full justice to the pompous, bellicose lack of believability of the original musketeers. All the hammy smuttiness of the book is there, as prominent as a cardinal's staff (oo, err...)

What's missing, perhaps, is the political intensity of the book -- it seems to be have been lost in the general swashbuckling and carousing.

It's great fun, so long as you don't take any part of it seriously in any way. The music and sound effects are well done and appropriate.

I don't know if this is a general change for Audible, but this production seems to be delivered in a higher bitrate than usual, and with some sense of stereo. Let's hope it's the start of a trend -- too many Audible presentations have been spoiled by poor fidelity audio delivery.

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Carry on Musketeering

The Muskehounds wouldn't be up to such schneegans!

Not what I expected in places; whilst I haven't read the original I thought I got the general gist from all the adaptations and thought this would be a more straightforward adventure novel with some light humour but was closer to a Carry On caper, was tempted to use 'Confessions of a Musketeer' as the headline but didn't think many folk would get that reference :-p

It is mentioned in other reviews its interesting to tell the story from Milady de Winter point of view but feels shoehorned in as your still mostly hearing the story in a more traditional format from various individuals (mostly D'Artagnan) making the sporadic narration of Milady de Winter a bit misplaced and ultimately wasted/pointless. If it was all from that POV and really leaned into this to paint the Musketeers in a poorer light (even though they don't exactly come across that well anyway) and as the villians then that would be great and unique, watching Cobra Kai shows how well that can work :). Instead this part makes it sound like a cautionary tale of a woman scorned.

As such these 2 parts makes the tone somewhat uneven, as I said it could be the same for the original novel but for me this audible has the slapstick nature alongside some tragic in a way to make it jarring, and comical in an unintended way.

The acting was all fine, always hard listening to action & romance being acted out with the former sounding cheesy and the latter cringe at best.

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Fantastic

Exciting, engaging, amazing. What more can you say about this fantastic historical tale. Literally the cowboys of yester yesteryear (that's not a typo 😎).

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Way over the top - don’t recommend

I found the voice acting in this to be a bit much, especially the weird sound effects of the actors making out (happens a lot). Not a relaxing listen at all, and butchered a classic story. A final note; would have been nice to have foreign actors have even the slightest of their actual foreign accents (instead of everyone being British) as this novel emphasises the tensions between the french and English.

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  • 08-10-20

Such a disappointment!

I have always loved the story of the three musketeers and have enjoyed many of audible dramatised stories from a variety of authors, but not this one. At times the dialogue and acting almost descended to pantomime and made me wince rather than engage with these well known characters. A huge disappointment all round.

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Excellent dramatization

I was completely taken aback by the excellent quality of the Audible dramatization of this classic. It's one of the very best I have listened to. The different narrators, the background sounds all combine to provide an amazing listening experience that brings this classic book to life in an amazing way.
Highly recommended.

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Brilliant

Just the story and performance you want from Audible. I enjoyed every minute, a classic tale brilliantly crafted into an audio play with excellent performances from the cast.

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Radio drama experience

Definitely not a reading of the original book for anyone mistaking it. It is however enjoyable radio drama like reading with good actors, effects and an emphasis on light and humor parts of the well known story.

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