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    <body><![CDATA[31/10/2009 - Now for the Marty Feldman film!<br/><br/>----------<br/><img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/vimsig/pic/000rrfkf/s320x240" class="escapedImg"/><br/><br/>Beau Geste (Classic Serial) 04-10-2009 - 11-10-2009<br/> <br/>Beau Geste is PC Wren's classic story of honour, love and adventure. The Geste brothers run away from England, home and romance to join the French Forei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75999876">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beau Geste is probably my all time favorite book. The extreme plot keeps you reading, and reading, and reading, you never want to stop! I was enthralled by the loyalty of the characters and the depth of them too. So many times this book made me cry, and many times it made me laugh. It was bold, dari...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7039817">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a fabulous book!! I am SO enjoying building up my reactionary library (see article pasted in below). <br/><br/>Beau Geste was an ultimate boy/man book (to be much enjoyed by women who love real men too:). While I have to admit that there wasn't, perhaps, anything mind-blowingly profound in th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43491616">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[  Interesting mystery. Now know not to ever sign up for the foreign legion. :) A bit wordy and I admit that I'm not sure if the drastic measures taken by the characters are justified. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good, intense read but the ending bugged me.  I don't want to give too much away so I won't elaborate.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The best example I know of a book that could have profited from the efforts of a good editor.  Or even a bad editor.  Any editor.  The first half or two thirds of the story is quite good in concept-- the sequence where the patrol arrives to save the fort only to find it defended by the dead is excel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8139059">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this book so many times when i was a kid, and i just gave it to my 12yo and he LOVES it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There's a few places where it seems like Wren wanted to rush into the next part, which he thought of as more exciting, so the events are pieced together rather than flowing, but it's a good book, and it has something to it, not like a lot of books.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the rare occasions where I prefer the movie to the book, but the movie is my all-time favorite, so I can't fault the book for that.  The book is terrific, a story of brotherly love and loyalty to the very last.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is probably the one book that got me involved with reading as much as I do.  It is one of the first books I read as a teenager and I loved it.  The intrigue of mystery and suspense abounds throughout the book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As I read this, I was delighted with the way P.C. Wren's language flowed. It was a delight to read it aloud, although my French pronouciation would probably lead to an international incident!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best books I've ever read. It made me laugh, cry, and feel for all the characters like no other book. An must read for anyone who loves the classics]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great adventure! There's an adolescent truth to it.  The question always is, 'how did we get into this mess?'  Exciting as can be.]]></body>
    
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