> I tried reading Three Musketeers once, and found it too
> dumb to get past a few chapters.
Perhaps it depends on the translation.
We had to read it in French for French class in my sophomore year. I remember being very entertained by it, but some of the satire only made sense in French and in a French context.
For example, my Italian relatives had a lot of fun using idiomatic expressions when I took them literally.
“some of the satire only made sense in French and in a French context.”
must be why the French think Jerry Lewis is a comic genius ...