The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat. No one would take a boat like that down a dangerous river through the jungles of Central Africa during the First World War. But Rose Sayer and Charlie Allnut do just that. They come close to death many times, but no one would expect a missionary's sister and a rough, uneducated mechanic to fall in love ...The film of this famous love and adventure story, made in 1951, starred Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, and went on to become one of the most popular films ever made.
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Forester is now remembered for his Horatio Hornblower sea adventures; his 1935 novel has been forgotten in lieu of the popular 1951 film by John Huston. However, those who want to experience the original without Hollywood's alternationsDprotagonist Charlie Allnutt is BritishDwill have to read the novel.
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The devil is in the detail,
By Peter Bowes (Avalon, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The African Queen (Paperback)
C S Forester knew his business. He knew a plausible method of turning an old river steamer into a torpedo, he knew the hellish consequences of losing a prop blade, of mooring in a mangrove swamp, of finding still water in a rapid.. And as he has proven so many times in the Hornblower novels, he knows the way of knaves and gentleman... This is a book for any age.
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C. S. Forester Knows How to Tell Stories,
By gray (midwest) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The African Queen (Paperback)
Some authors have the gift of putting words together in a way that entertains and enthralls the reader. C. S. Forester is one of the best. When Forester tells a story, the reader feels personally involved. We feel like we know the characters in a personal, intense way. If you have read Forester's Hornblower novels, you have read Forester at his best. The African Queen was made into a memorable movie starring Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. The book is more intense, darker, and far less triumphant than the movie. If you thrill to the successes of Horatio Hornblower in Forester's navel novels, you might find African Queen a little depressing at times. If you like depressing novels (and apparently many readers do) you might give this book five stars. The story is set during World War I and involves the attempt by a missionary lady and an alcoholic English boatman to travel down a river in Africa to do battle with the Germans. The interaction between the characters and the river creates a riveting story. Like Hemingway, "I recommend Forester..."
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A good movie. A very ,very good book.,
By Yankee Dame (Dayton) - See all my reviews
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There is really not much to say except that the Hollywood movie is not really very much like the book. (Why does this not suprise me?) The story and the characters are much more human, possibly because they are not "Katharine H. and Boogie" and this is not Hollywood. The thundering falls, the hunger,the heat, the gloomy swamps, the smother lake of water lillies, the endless toil and hours...and then, in the end, to see their mission fail. As heart breaking and riviting as any book ever writen.
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ALTHOUGH she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had she been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sayer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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African Queen, Königin Luise, Von Hanneken, German Central Africa, Rift Valley, Lake Wittelsbach, Belgian Congo, Joan of Arc, South African, Ulanga River New!
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ALTHOUGH she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had she been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sayer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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African Queen, Königin Luise, Von Hanneken, German Central Africa, Rift Valley, Lake Wittelsbach, Belgian Congo, Joan of Arc, South African, Ulanga River New!
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- Lord Hornblower (Hornblower Saga) by C. S. Forester in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Lieutenant Hornblower by C. S. Forester in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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