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If you read this book, be prepared for a rousing adventure, a moving relationship, and a heartbreaking disappointment-though, as I said, the ending is not tragic. The morality and attitude toward Christianity depicted in this book is questionable, but the love affair in it is not so much erotic or scandalous as it is touching and character-developing. These are not ideal people, and it is not a glamorous romance. He is at the same time compassionate toward them and given to moments of wry humor. And patriotism, warfare, and the management of the African Queen turn out to be but the hothouse in which their romance grows.ДЇorester proves again where he truly excels-the inner workings of character, the depiction of complex people who in their three-dimensioned realism practically jump off the page. Even that plot arc undergoes a bit of anticlimax, I suppose, but the real story in the end turns out to be about them and how they go from what they were to what they become, individually and together. The one finds his manhood and the other her womanhood, both in their flowering love for each other. The book finally isn't really a story about a military achievement, and its ending is neither tragic nor quite what you would call a 'Hollywood ending.' It's really about the love that develops between the almost comical, hard-luck little engineer and the flinty, determined young woman who gradually frees herself from a lifetime of inhibitions and self-reproach. Forester again demonstrates his ability to build up to a shattering climax, and his propensity to let off tension with a sudden anticlimax. Well, that would be spoiling the whole thing for you. Through weeks of heartbreaking toil, danger, pestilence and sickness, heat and the peccadilloes of the rickety old steam launch, the two do the seemingly impossible, the almost unheard-of-they get the African Queen downriver to the edge of the lake, and lay their plan to destroy the German steamer (the Koenigin Luise, aka the Louisa), and are about to put their plan into effect, when.

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Her strength of will and till-now-hidden talents get them through a series of rapids, then other seemingly impossible challenges. Her plan is to use the supplies he was picking up for the mine-which include air cylinders and TNT-to blow up the steam-powered gunboat that patrols the lake at the bottom of the river and effectively cuts off any chances of the British penetrating into German territory.ДЄllnutt is frightened half to death, but being of a meek and nervous disposition (and ill-inclined to endure the 'silent treatment') he gives in to Rose's plan. His plan is to elude the Germans until the end of the war, which he expects will be any day. The other Brit in the colony, a trim little cockney engineer who works at the German-licensed, Belgian gold mine up the river-his name is Charlie Allnutt-drops in, helps Rose bury her brother, then takes her on board his wood-burning steam launch, the African Queen. This effectively destroys all that the old missionary has worked for and in his despair he goes into a fit of malaria and dies, leaving his shapely but horse-faced, 33-year-old spinster sister all alone. I mean ALL, men, women, and children, to defend the vulnerable and isolated colony.

When hostilities break out the Germans come and recruit all the black Africans to be soldiers or bearers in their army.

Rose Sayer is the sister of a middle-class English missionary in German Central Africa. Written in the mid-1930s, it takes place in about 1914 when WWI is gearing up.

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But now I've read the book the movie was based on: The African Queen by C.S. I still haven't seen the Katharine Hepburn-Humphrey Bogart movie, directed by John Huston, for which Bogie won his acting Oscar.

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