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List Price: $12.00 | | Publisher: Caedmon
Salesrank: 1115864
Released: July 7, 1998 |
| Our Price: $2.90 |
| Used Price: $2.10 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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Editorial Review:
“It came with a rush; not as a rush of water nor of wind; but of a sudden evil-smelling emptiness. . .” A flamboyant, hard-drinking, ruthless and womanizing world adventurer comes face-to-face with the one antagonist he cannot conquer: his own ignoble and imminent death. . . .Written in 1938, The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a classic distillation of the themes Ernest Hemingway obsessively explored throughout his writing career.When Harry, the central character, goes on safari to “work the fat off his mind,” his ambitions are cut short when a terrible accident leaves him facing his ultimate death and weighing the meaning of his life. Hemingway's brilliant prose is given a penetrating and moving reading by Charlton Heston in an audio that only deepens in meaning with each listening.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro Reviews:
PUZZLED 
2008-07-22 - THE FIRST LINES OF THE BOOK REFERS TO KILIMANJARO AND THAT'S IT. THE REST OF THE BOOK PRETTY WELL SUCKS...I FIND IT HIGHLY OVER RATED
Good story, good read 
2001-02-05 - This cassette contains just the one short story. The story shows Hemingway at his best. The usual protagonists: a "damaged" man and a uni-dimensional woman. However, here he invests the man (who narrates the tale) with considerable insight into himself and into life. I liked the writing far more than "Farewell to Arms" for example, where nearly identical characters are protagonists.
Heston's reading is fairly good. Better than his reading of the "Old Man and the Sea" which I thought he really ruined. While good, his reading is not excellent (hence the 4 stars). He does not modulate his voice sufficiently between characters so it's difficult at times to know who's talking when.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro 
2000-05-17 - Classic Hemingway. Great depth in describing the characters and the situation. Like his other works, it is not surprising that he received a Pulitzer.
Heston did justice to the characters in this audio book, just as he does in his screen acting. It was an enjoyable read during my long commute.
