The Scarlet Pimpernel Review

You remember those old Kix cereal commercials? The kids were convinced they were eating candy, and they laughed at their mother's healthy food kick? The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is a lot like that. It has the prestige and pedigree of a great literary classic, but it also has the suspense of a mental-candy read.
Yes, sometimes the book's heroine, Marguerite, goes on for pages about her shame and her undying love for her husband in a way that would make Faulkner roll his eyes. But it also has enough action and suspense to keep me momentarily distracted from my other current reading.

So go ahead. Read it. Balance the adult and the juvenile. I, however, have to go read law stuff now, so in order to balance that (and because I have typed Pumpernickel instead of Pimpernel twice now), I leave you with this:



Oh, and the plot of this short is actually nothing like the book, so I didn't spoil anything for you. In fact, it's actully a lot more like if you took Errol Flynn's Robin Hood and Gene Kelley's The Three Musketeers and put them in a blender with Daffy Duck. Enjoy!