My goal was to get through the title story to see the movie.
John Huston's "The Man Who Would Be King" is swashbuckling adventure, pure and simple, from the hand of a master.
This was certainly because he wrote quite vigorously and was regarded as a great advocate of the great British Empire upon whom the sun never set. What else has mankind done since it rose in Africa but displace its neighbors? This is such a very strange and often jarring story. 3 likes. Has bit of humour but I founded it a bit dry, maybe back then was exotic and adventurous. Two Englishmen in India, charlatans, fraudsters, impersonators, swindlers, cheats, who wander about the length of breadth of the country tricking and deceiving people to earn their dough, decide one day that they will journey up the northern mountains to become joint kings of Kafiristan, a mountainous region then outside the borders of British India but which now falls in present-day Pakistan and where old pagan tribes still exist.Two Englishmen in India, charlatans, fraudsters, impersonators, swindlers, cheats, who wander about the length of breadth of the country tricking and deceiving people to earn their dough, decide one day that they will journey up the northern mountains to become joint kings of Kafiristan, a mountainous region then outside the borders of British India but which now falls in present-day Pakistan and where old pagan tribes still exist.Errrr.....An imperialistic view on an insanely unconvincing event. I noticed there were few typos and misspellings. This was a joy to watch. This was made into a cracking film with Sean Connery and Michael Caine, which filled in a lot of the colour that this book misses out in its brevity. The writer, Rudyard Kipling, employs heavy usage of 19th Century jargons and idioms unique to England and India which makes the reading a bit challenging and difficult for 20th Century Americans. I am fan of history however, fictionalized history about a soldiering society is foreign to me which I was not prepared to invest in. It's unabashed and thrilling and fun. It is antiquated and without reading other things, I don't know where it is, and it takes a while to figure out the narrator and just what is going on.
That was Dravot’s order. The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling.
What else does any animal do but seek to thrive where it can?This is of course the short story from Rudyard Kipling that inspired the 1975 John Huston film starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.This is of course the short story from Rudyard Kipling that inspired the 1975 John Huston film starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.The 1975 film,starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine,based on this story is an interesting one.The 1975 film,starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine,based on this story is an interesting one.I found this book quite boring and feel guilty for the feeling.
At first they succeed, but eventually their reach exceeds their grasp, and their adventure ends in death and mutilation.Kipling's poetry was extravagantly admired during his life time and even for a while after his death. I am fan of history however, fictionalized history about a soldiering society is foreign to me which I was not prepared to invest in. How pathetic was that? I have been getting into audiobooks a lot recently, and I tend to enjoy them a lot, but somehow, I got a bit lost with this one. We’d love your help. Diverse voices and sparkling debuts dominate today's contemporary short story collections. It's unabashed and thrilling and fun.
The movie invites comparison with the great action films like "Gunga Din" and "Mutiny on the Bounty," and with Huston's own classic "
I have loved most everything else I have read by this author. “I wasn’t King,” said Carnehan.
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