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    <body><![CDATA[You might know The African Queen as an excellent old movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn.  This is the book that film is based on, and it’s every bit as good--even without Bogie and Kate.  They play the characters of Charlie Allnutt and Rose Sayer, a burned-out trader with a beat-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79326332">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have seen the movie version of <em>The African Queen</em> many times, and enjoy it thoroughly, so I thought I should finally read the source novel by C. S. Forester. I enjoyed the novel immensely, too. It gives much more detail of the trip down the Ulanga river, and gives possibly a more realistic picture ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77047637">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The African Queen is a romantic adventure by C.S. Forester. It's one for all to read and enjoy. His descriptive details of the African jungle makes you believe you are in the story along with the main characters, Allnut and Rose. Their struggles down river to find the German enemy are rigid. With ev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56959743">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have mixed feelings about this book, but overall I enjoyed it. It is set during the First World War, and as such the narative drills home the attitudes toward women of the time (weaker sex, subject to the authority of any man, etc.). However, the lead female character breaks out of that mould on a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55512782">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This novel is about an action in WW I between German forces and what might be called British irregulars. Rose Sayer, sister of an English missionary in German Central Africa, seems an unlikely heroine until her brother dies and she takes responsibility for her own life. With a gin drinking engineer, Allnutt, the indomitable Miss Sayer sets out on the African Queen, a leaky 30-foot river boat, to strike a blow for England and avenge her brother's death.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The small hardcover edition, this particular one republished in 1940, has been sitting on my shelf for years. I've seen the movie numerous times and didn't give much thought to the book.<br/><br/>It's really good though, and is as the cover proclaims &quot;a high tale of adventure.&quot; Which I a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68404299">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The African Queen by C.S. Forester<br/><br/>What can I really say about the book The African Queen that isn’t already well-known as an award-winning movie? Originally published in 1935, this exceptional book was fairly closely reproduced in the movie in 1951 with relatively minor changes, the mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57333803">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I honestly didn't know the source material of the movie, The African Queen, was a book of the same title until my co-worker introduced it to me. C.S. Forester is no master of characterization which might be why there is essentially only two characters in The African Queen (unless you count the boat,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46912803">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was so inspired by the movie that I decided to read the book, just to hear that wonderful romantic adventure once again. What a letdown! C.S. Forester's style was once considered to be a model for historical adventure stories; now it is dated and bombastic, often awkwardly sentimental and implausi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70583970">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A bit melodramatic, perhaps, but C.S. Forester gave me a little gem with this tale of two unlikely lovers in an out-of-the-way corner during second World War. I've never really read a love story quite like it, actually.  Betweem these two and Hornblower, I begin to get the idea that Forester really ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74985084">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THE MAN, THE WOMAN AND THE JUNGLE<br/><br/>Everything he knew about women, Charlie had learned in ports of call from Marseilles to the Indian Ocean. In his wildest dreams he never expected to meet a girl like Rose Sayer on a tropical river in savage Africa. She was completely dependent on him, utterly in his power.<br/><br/>THE AFRICAN QUEEN<br/><br/>is C.S. FORRESTER'S celebrated novel of a man and a woman thousands of miles from civilization, faced by jungle dangers, the elements, wild savages, and their own fierce passions.<br/><br/>[From the back cover.]]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, the adventure in it is enthralling. On the other, the descriptions of the minutiae of the manoeuvres the two main characters perform with their boat as they take it downriver can be dull to someone uninitiated into the art of navigation. On top...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74014423">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[(Novel) Beautifully written.  Inasmuch as this novel was first published in 1939, way before the women's movement, I was surprised by how accurately the author portrayed the heroine's desires to be a competent adult out from under the domination of the men in her life.  I was saddened however that u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71416156">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This reminds me a lot of Ursula K. Leguin's &quot;The Left Hand of Darkness&quot; in that there wasn't a lot of plot in this book, and yet it was pretty good (except that the ending was a bit anticlimactic). The plot moved quickly, and the characters were appealing. The narrator was a bit intrusive ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40181139">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wanted to read this because I've always loved the movie. Now I have to say that my hat's off more than ever to director John Huston and screenwriter James Agee for making such a successful story out of such unpromising material. Characterization has never been <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= C. S. Forester" title=" C. S. Forester"> C. S. Forester</a>'s strong suit (Hornblow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13760094">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Prompted by an up-coming screening of the film version, according to my usual rule of read before viewing, I ran through this one almost as fast as the eponymous boat was going.  I liked it - and, unsurprisingly, found it better than the film.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[if you liked the movie, i predict you'll love the book.  i may have to read more of mr. forrester.  i so enjoyed the horatio hornblower series on A&amp;E!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic.  I haven't seen the movie, but would like to, although I have heard that it's different than the book.]]></body>
    
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