You will read the bits where John is all, When one has been at Eton one doesn’t wish to associate with Italians and lying thieves from the East End of London, or whatever, and you will probably never trust anything I say about any book ever again because you will think I am an imperialist asshole with bad taste in books.īut Beau Geste is just so exciting and thrilling! It starts with a French officer telling the story of coming upon an abandoned fort in the middle of the desert of French North Africa. If you read them, you will probably think that I am a terrible person for managing to like books so blatantly classist, racist, and sexist. My parents gave me Beau Geste and its two sequels for Christmas a couple of years ago, and you know I brought them all with me to New York. Because I have a weakness a mile wide for early twentieth century adventure novels, and I know that they are not objectively books of value. I am so glad right now that I invented my Sparkly Snuggle Hearts category.
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