The Man In The Iron Mask
Product Description
In the Musketeers’ final adventure, D’Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Meanwhile, a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask wastes away deep inside the Bastille. When the destinies of king and prisoner converge, the Three Musketeers and D’Artagnan find themselves caught between conflicting loyalties.
Introduction by Francine du Plessix Gray
Translated by Jo… More >>
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Ronald N. Kyle said :
February 27, 2010 at 9:45 am
I oredered this book but I thought I was order a DVD my mistake, but its always a pleasue doing business bie Amazon.
Ron
Rating: 3 / 5
T. Rock said :
February 27, 2010 at 12:23 pm
I saw and loved the movie so I just had to get the book to compare, books are usually better. The problem is that it doesn’t compare, the stories are totally different. That being the case the book was interesting, exciting at some points and a little difficult to understand because of the era in which it was written. It has little to do with the “man” in the iron mask and it is more an extension of the Three Musketeers.
Rating: 3 / 5
Children's Lit Fan said :
February 27, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Don’t be fooled. This is NOT Dumas, it is a rewrite. The target audience seems to be kindergarteners.
Rating: 1 / 5
R. I. Davis said :
February 27, 2010 at 1:59 pm
This one’s a real curate’s egg. Buy this if you love a good historical yarn, constant plot development, intrigue and speculation on one of the great periods and what-ifs of any period in any country’s history. It’s a page-turner and lovely if it catches you in the right mood.
Do not buy this if you’re more the sort that doesn’t care so much what happens as how it’s described. Character development is limited and nobody really comes to life in true 3-D, which would have been the making of this novel. On the other hand some of the intrigue we see is quite nicely developed.
I am the sort who likes to have a few books on the go at once and to deliberate over things and savour the status quo at any point, always expecting never to re-read (I’m sure you’re thrilled at this insight). I must say that menas I’ve tended to hurry to another book from this one and it’s not holding my attention. It reads like a play and would have been better in that format, but by trying to have a main plot and subplot it all reads too cleanly.
If you really love the genre of historical novels nothing quite beats ‘The Leopard’ by Lampedusa, but it’s more after my likes. I wish this book were really about something, be it “How far it is possible in politics to achieve what you want with a bi of talent and status” but other books do much better and this doesn’t have such lofty ambitions.
Ultimately, some good effects but really unmemorable.
Rating: 3 / 5
Wraith said :
February 27, 2010 at 2:20 pm
From the 30 min of what i watched of the movie, the book is nothing alike. Interesting plot and it was very tough to predict the outcome. It’s worth reading the 3 Musketeers first, and The Count of Monte Cristo is still my favorite Dumas book.
Rating: 3 / 5