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Beau Geste
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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Summary
Beau Geste is the world-famous novel of suspense and adventure, love and glory, courage, and treachery. It is the thrilling story of three men who braved the hellish brutality and ruthless savagery of the French Foreign Legion to protect the honor of a woman they loved more than their lives.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Philip
- 08-03-12
Glorious, heroic- but traumatic too.
This is superb- a gripping mix of mystery, the sahara, the macabre and adventure- though more than anything else it is a celebration of esprit de corps and 'doing the right thing'.
In short it is everything that one might want from an audiobook- and the narration could hardly be better.
On the other hand, I was left with a bitter taste- (not to give the plot away)- I found the over-arching mystery less interesting and less significant than the second mystery that was caused by/ contained within it.
It's no plot spoiler to reveal that the first-person narrator survives to the end and that everything is cleared up- but it comes as rather an anti-climax and a hollow victory. I was left feeling rather annoyed with P.C Wren for having put my emotions through the wringer to, ultimately, so little purpose.
I expected that with an adventure story of this vintage and this classic status I would be reassured in the end that all the suffering was worthwhile- and I was cheated out of that comfort and the joy of 'boy gets girl' was not enough to blot out the (plot-wise rather needless) trauma of the last third of the adventure
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Morris
- 29-07-10
Superb reading of a classic adventure
Beau Geste is a rich mystery adventure story. The tragic heroic acts central to the narrative would not be out of place in a Dumas novel, with the title character's destiny being particularly heart-rending.
Although unconfirmed, speculation at the time of publication was that the author had himself served in the French Foreign Legion. His vignettes of life in the Legion are fascinating, entertaining and educational. A true classic in the boys own adventure genre.
The narration in this recording is excellent with the author coping admirably with the French and Arabic vocabulary.
Very highly recommended.
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- J from Yorkshire
- 28-09-23
A brilliant book
A very exciting story, gripping from beginning to end, performed perfectly. Both the English and the French are read very well. Fascinating detail of life in the Foreign Legion and Algeria. A very positive story. It makes you feel proud to be English. I’m sorry that I’ve come to the end of the book but I’m sure that I will listen to it again.
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