Why the Three Musketeers have Girl Cooties (according to the Paul Cook school of thinking)

[la_marquise_de_]

Ten Reasons Why the Three Musketeers have girl cooties

Comments

[coth]

Strewth!

[lamentables]

*clicks link*

Wow, who is this simple-minded bigot?

*reads profile*

Really? He's teaching university students English?

*despairs*

[klwilliams]

I'm not surprised he's an English professor. I've only encountered one university English professor (Brian Attebery, who taught with my mother) who had anything positive to say about science fiction.

[suricattus]

Paul has WRITTEN SF.

But even back then I could tell he had an allergy to character-driven stories.

[vaughan_stanger]

Good grief--that linked article beggars belief.

[branna]

Re: the linked article--good grief. The man is not only ignorant, he sounds like a two year old. "That broccoli touched my spaghetti! I can't possibly eat it now!"

However, he did inspire your list, which I love.

[anef]

Did Dumas have a particular audience in mind? Who did he think he was writing for?

[txanne]

Dumas' intended audience was "people who would pay him money for stories."

[la_marquise_de_]

Everyone: his books were all written initially for serialisation in newspapers and were hugely popular with both men and women.