With classic simplicity and a painter’s feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya.
The plot-line was full of adventure, survival, hardship, and personal tragedy.. The heroine, Karen Blixen, went to Africa in search of a new life. But ultimately found herself thrust into a life of devastation and uncertainty. Fortunately, she had the strength of character and tenacity to overcome whatever was thrown at her. She was an …
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amarshall45so
3 years ago
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lilianwhite
3 years ago
I was invited to the Premier of Out of Africa. I was in Townsville at the time; and the film was showing at the Townsville Civic Centre.
It was enthralling. This young woman who married a ladies’ man.
I read the novel, and I was captured by the overall spirit of its characters and settings. A must-read!
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kristalreid
3 years ago
The only book I have ever read where the movie was just as good or better
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anne
3 years ago
This flawless classic is worth reading again. Everyone should read it.
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illicar
3 years ago
I expected it to be like the movie. It is not like the movie. The author goes into prolonged description of the hills, woods and plains. She describes the people and animals at great lengths. It does not move as a narrative of a story, but recollections and impressions of her time in Africa.
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junifisher
3 years ago
It’s been a few years since I last read this Isak Denison classic, but the characters have stayed with me. In spite of her life of privilege, Denison saw the rituals and habits of the people who surrounded her as hired staff, as they were, and how they related with a white woman they found to be a curiosity. The resulting film is lovely, but do …
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tobyasmith
3 years ago
If you are a fan of the movie, OUT OF AFRICA, with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford you may be disappointed when you read the book. Because it doesn’t have that same, clear linear narrative of Karen Blixen’s life in Africa. The movie clearly used biographical events to provide a movie structure.
Instead, the book is more a series of snapshots. …
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mtgardener39
3 years ago
Wonderful charachters, well- researched. I was so touched by the main character’s love of her land.
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fdleidy
3 years ago
Colonial Africa before self-rule.
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yvonnejoyner
3 years ago
I totally enjoyed this book even though I’d seen the movie years ago. The book is quite different than the movie which focused on the romance. This is a very personal view of life on a coffee plantation in Kenya before the war, written beautifully and with so much love for the land and it’s people and wildlife.
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easrosi
3 years ago
One of my all time favorite books. Beautifully written and fascinating. The movie is just a tiny slice of this wonderful book
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wilsonelsa849
3 years ago
Gorgeous writing, underlined many passages. No wonder many thought she deserved the Nobel Prize. Easy read.
Her birth language was Danish but her English is masterly.
Denys Finch Hatton had the intelligence to appreciate her, and she has forever immortalized him here as a mythic figure.
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charlesheckscher
3 years ago
One of the most beautifully written books I have ever read; a very distinctive voice.
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rmrang5
3 years ago
Book is almost better than the movie except for Redford and Streep.
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mardinecampbell
3 years ago
I’ve read this book several times as well as watched the movie. Excellent story and describes colonial life in Kenya in
the 1920s-30s.
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michelemiddleton
3 years ago
One of my very favorite novels ever! Beautiful scenery descriptions, as well as wonderful complex characters. Loved the book.
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The plot-line was full of adventure, survival, hardship, and personal tragedy.. The heroine, Karen Blixen, went to Africa in search of a new life. But ultimately found herself thrust into a life of devastation and uncertainty. Fortunately, she had the strength of character and tenacity to overcome whatever was thrown at her. She was an …
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I was invited to the Premier of Out of Africa. I was in Townsville at the time; and the film was showing at the Townsville Civic Centre.
It was enthralling. This young woman who married a ladies’ man.
I read the novel, and I was captured by the overall spirit of its characters and settings. A must-read!
The only book I have ever read where the movie was just as good or better
This flawless classic is worth reading again. Everyone should read it.
I expected it to be like the movie. It is not like the movie. The author goes into prolonged description of the hills, woods and plains. She describes the people and animals at great lengths. It does not move as a narrative of a story, but recollections and impressions of her time in Africa.
It’s been a few years since I last read this Isak Denison classic, but the characters have stayed with me. In spite of her life of privilege, Denison saw the rituals and habits of the people who surrounded her as hired staff, as they were, and how they related with a white woman they found to be a curiosity. The resulting film is lovely, but do …
If you are a fan of the movie, OUT OF AFRICA, with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford you may be disappointed when you read the book. Because it doesn’t have that same, clear linear narrative of Karen Blixen’s life in Africa. The movie clearly used biographical events to provide a movie structure.
Instead, the book is more a series of snapshots. …
Wonderful charachters, well- researched. I was so touched by the main character’s love of her land.
Colonial Africa before self-rule.
I totally enjoyed this book even though I’d seen the movie years ago. The book is quite different than the movie which focused on the romance. This is a very personal view of life on a coffee plantation in Kenya before the war, written beautifully and with so much love for the land and it’s people and wildlife.
One of my all time favorite books. Beautifully written and fascinating. The movie is just a tiny slice of this wonderful book
Gorgeous writing, underlined many passages. No wonder many thought she deserved the Nobel Prize. Easy read.
Her birth language was Danish but her English is masterly.
Denys Finch Hatton had the intelligence to appreciate her, and she has forever immortalized him here as a mythic figure.
One of the most beautifully written books I have ever read; a very distinctive voice.
Book is almost better than the movie except for Redford and Streep.
I’ve read this book several times as well as watched the movie. Excellent story and describes colonial life in Kenya in
the 1920s-30s.
One of my very favorite novels ever! Beautiful scenery descriptions, as well as wonderful complex characters. Loved the book.