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A review by midlifehedgewitch
Beau Geste by P.C. Wren
3.0
Three and a half stars.
I've read a review of this book, the top rated review here on Goodreads, and I must say I am astounded!
I do wonder if this person read a different book to the one that I read. I found no pseudo Christian moralising in this book, and I must say I am absolutely astounded that the woman who wrote the top rating review seems to find such a strong Christian message in the novel . This is a book about honour, despair, death, war, adventure and loss. It's not a book that should be seized upon by doe-eyed US bible bashers to advance their own fairy tales.
Beau Geste is first and foremost a boys own adventure from the beginning decades of the 20th century. It provides a snapshot of the British Empire and the thinking of its upper class citizens at that time: rollicking adventure, personal loss and tragedies, and a little stiff-upper lipped British romance.
Whilst the writing is truly dated, and the first part of the book is in need of a desperately good edit, the remainder of the book scoots along at a cracking pace.
As I was reading it as research for a book I am writing, I enjoyed it a little more than I thought I was going to.
Tally go and all that, and to those who find religious moralising in the every shadow and pavement crack, may I remind you that what you're doing is no different to shamen finding portents in the entrails of sacrificial chickens!
I've read a review of this book, the top rated review here on Goodreads, and I must say I am astounded!
I do wonder if this person read a different book to the one that I read. I found no pseudo Christian moralising in this book, and I must say I am absolutely astounded that the woman who wrote the top rating review seems to find such a strong Christian message in the novel . This is a book about honour, despair, death, war, adventure and loss. It's not a book that should be seized upon by doe-eyed US bible bashers to advance their own fairy tales.
Beau Geste is first and foremost a boys own adventure from the beginning decades of the 20th century. It provides a snapshot of the British Empire and the thinking of its upper class citizens at that time: rollicking adventure, personal loss and tragedies, and a little stiff-upper lipped British romance.
Whilst the writing is truly dated, and the first part of the book is in need of a desperately good edit, the remainder of the book scoots along at a cracking pace.
As I was reading it as research for a book I am writing, I enjoyed it a little more than I thought I was going to.
Tally go and all that, and to those who find religious moralising in the every shadow and pavement crack, may I remind you that what you're doing is no different to shamen finding portents in the entrails of sacrificial chickens!