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Beau Geste
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Categories: Children's Audiobooks, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
Non-member price: $33.47
Publisher's 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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- Iain
- 02-08-2020
Gripping
Loved the twists and tales. A clever and very well written book. Will read more of PC Wren's books now.
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- Loren D.
- 15-10-2006
Definitely a classic.
I have concluded that there is a reason why classic books are classics.
Beau Geste is a great story, with adventure, mystery, and a smattering of romance. I was expecting a desert war story, but got what turned out to be mostly a mystery.
This book is extremely well read and the audio quality is also excellent. I highly recommend it.
12 people found this helpful
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- Quotes&More
- 24-02-2007
Intriguing, wonderful tale, very well told.
To start off, the narration of this work is among the very best I have heard. It is stellar. The story itself is marvelous. One of those stories that truly transports you to another place and time; in this case, in the hot deserts of African and among the French Foreign Legion. Having never read the novel, it was a total delight to come across such a fine work of story telling. If you like adventure stories and rich prose, you will like this book very much.
8 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Stephen
- 21-05-2007
Pleasantly surprised
I did not know anything about this book other than I had heard the name. I was pleasantly surprised by the story, fascinated by the narrative and interested by the author's approach to logical dilemas. Toward the end, the story was slightly slow but interesting nonetheless. It is mostly a war narrative with some interesting characters and an underlying mystery. Perhaps not recomended for those not interested in learning more about the French Foreign Legion or reading about battles. But even in that case, the issues the characters dealt with were more about the decision making process than the fighting.
3 people found this helpful
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- Mary's older sister
- 19-11-2017
The story was good but the narrator was perfection
This was one of those books that I might have dismissed if not for the narrator. The story isn't all that appealing to a sixty something woman, really more the daring do for pre adolescent boy. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy it and I'm glad I got it, but I can see how this book would be a male favorite. The thing that made it great for me Geoffrey Howard. I enjoyed him so much I'm back to Audible looking for other books he's narrated.
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- Zenjen
- 25-04-2016
My favorite audio book
My favorite adventure story and favorite narrator! Beautifully written cliff hanger! If you like the sound of the sample, you will love this book.
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- Marina
- 06-05-2020
Great mistery book!
I liked this book a lot. It combines a mistery and historical description with colorful details of the time. I also enjoyed wonderful narration. G.Howard has a very pleasant voice and did amazing job on different accents and languages! Listening to this audio book is almost like watching a movie, I could imaging everything very vividly! I know that there are 3 movies filmed based on this novel. The mistery kept me on the edge of my seat till the last page!
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- Pager
- 24-12-2020
A wonderful Tale
Read this book many times in my youth. Fun to hear it as an Audible and hear correct pronunciation of the french names and places. Only narration I didn’t like was the horrible portrayal of the Americans, Hank and Buddy. It was an overly dramatic, and lousy accent. Otherwise, well done.
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- Elizabeth Uchiyama
- 04-11-2020
Amazing Tale Skillfully Read
A life of privilege interrupted by a robbery. Grand adventures in the French Foreign Legion. The ultimate buddy story narrated perfectly. I loved it!
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- George
- 02-11-2020
Swashbuckling/Mystery
I am a sucker for mysteries and swashbuckling stories. Here is a great one and the French Foreign Legion. Slowed down a little in the middle, but well worth it.
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- Anthony Capraro
- 30-09-2020
one of the finest books ever written
a pleasurable experience..very well recited...easy listening and descriptive. a great example of period romance..I am very happy having read it
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- Morris
- 29-07-2010
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.
2 people found this helpful
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- Philip
- 08-03-2012
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
1 person found this helpful
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