Book: The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas

From the beginning of my learning French, my brother (who owns, and has read the book) has been telling me, "You need to read the Three Musketeers!" So, he's let me borrow it and I am currently in the middle of the beginning of this FANTASTICALLY swash-buckling novel!
I can't tell you how much I love swash-bucklery.
His cover is the one seen here, which is entirely hilarious in its own way, and denotes that the book is not all mystery and seriousness. I've thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and it makes you laugh to yourself as you do with all the banter and author-to-reader side notes. It's definitely something I recommend.
And, my brother was correct to recommend it for me now that I'm learning French. It has plenty of expressions, names of places, names of things, along with titles and names of people that are fun to pronounce and get me used to reading French. (i.e. You learn that 'rue' is the word for 'street' very quickly)
And thus far-- and I do not see this changing-- my favorite musketeer in the book is Athos (who, if you've seen that movie, is Kiefer Sutherland's character).
Happy reading!

- Codi Lyn -

P.S. I'm understanding rapidly how insanely little dexterity you have in the Winter up here. My typing is uncommonly slow. O_o