A review by firstwords
Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean

3.0

I listened to the BBC Radio adaptation, which follows the book but has some omissions. It was short and fun, exactly what you'd expect from a BBC retelling of a swashbucking adventure book. Over-the-top heroics, Bad bad guys, Good good guys, explosions, gunfire, etc. There was nothing realistic about the story (if you have seen the movie Armageddon, it's at about that level of action), but it was a welcome change from the straight reading of other audiobook formats, and made this reader look for more BBC adaptations of novels.

Simple fun and time-waster, no deep message here.