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    The Black Sultan
    The Black Sultan
    The Black Sultan
    Audiobook2 hours

    The Black Sultan

    Written by L. Ron Hubbard

    Narrated by R.F. Daley, Christina Huntington, Corey Burton and Jim Meskimen

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    Meet Eddie Moran, a slightly disreputable American cooling his heels in French Morocco. Like a young Cary Grant, he’s as smooth as they come. He’s pulled off any number of crooked schemes, but his latest caper is one he may not be able to escape…even if he wants to. Imprisoned by The Black Sultan, Eddie falls for a stunning young woman in the Sultan’s harem. For her, he might go straight—if he can get them out of this hellhole alive. The desert winds howl and the battles rage as the audio version of The Black Sultan transports you back to a storied era of blood and war in North Africa. When The Black Sultan was originally published, Hubbard said that writers too often “forget a great deal of the languorous quality which made the Arabian Nights so pleasing. Jewels, beautiful women, towering cities filled with mysterious shadows, sultans equally handy with robes of honor and the beheading sword. . . . These things still exist, undimmed, losing no luster to the permeating Occidental flavor which reaches even the far corners of the earth today.” Hubbard brings this unique insight to his stories of North Africa and the Legionnaires, investing them with an authenticity of time, place and character that kept his readers asking for more. The desert winds howl and the battles rage as the audio drama of The Black Sultan transports you back to a storied era of blood and war in North Africa. Also includes the adventure story, Escape for Three, in which a bold trio of French Legionnaires come to the rescue of their great leader—only to decide he may not be so great after all.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGalaxy Press Audio
    Release dateMar 21, 2013
    ISBN9781592124213
    Author

    L. Ron Hubbard

    With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most enduring and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard. Then too, of course, there is all L. Ron Hubbard represents as the Founder of Dianetics and Scientology and thus the only major religion born in the 20th century.

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    • 1/5
      I don't recommend this book, because philosophy is always woven into a writers works, and this author's philosophy is strange. This is good production for an audio book, but it is the content that I dislike from a philosophical perspective.
    • 5/5
      I loved it so much
    • 4/5
      I received this as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewer program.Despite my misgivings about L.Ron Hubbard and Scientology, I love his pulp fiction.This story is fast paced and had enough twists and turns to keep you turning the page.
    • 4/5
      I received several of these Hubbard audio books from librarything.com. Eddie Moran is an adventurer who has returned to Morocco after several exciting years in French Indochina. He is promptly arrested by the Légion étrangère for crimes committed in Asia but is reprieved by Sheik el'Zidan, a blond, Oxford-educated, horse thief. Moran is broke and accepts a job with el'Zidan but on his way to el'Zidan's HQ he is intercepted by the Black Sultan, el'Zidan's arch enemy and pretender to his throne. Moran escapes and manages to rescue Sheila Gordon, a captive in the Black Sultan's harem. Hubbard's descriptions are colorful and exciting and feel accurate within the context of the pulp tradition. It's a good story but the book's production shortfalls lower its rating. The most damaging of these are the poorly managed edits that leave dead spots in the dialogue. The multicast presentation is good, although Christine Huntington, as Sheila Gordon, does not have a pleasant voice and her accent is peculiar. She puts the emphasis on the wrong word in many of her lines.As expected in this series, the background effects are quite good, but this book is not as well produced as the others. In addition to the dead spots in the dialogue, track one on each disc is poorly recorded and the introductory music is scratchy. The slip cover illustration is not a good one. The hero looks more like a gaucho riding an appaloosa than an American, dressed in a silk Berber jellaba, riding a white Arab stallion. Galaxy Press might have an excuse if this illustration is taken from the cover art for the original publication. This recording also includes the Short Story "Escape for Three." I wonder at the choice as the American in the story is "Lieutenant Marain" which sounds too much like Eddie Moran of the companion story. The story is brutal and the trick at the end harks from an era with different myths.We can imagine that Galaxy Press, publishers of these audiobooks, is a Scientologist outfit, but there is nothing that points directly to a link.You need to save the cast list that comes in the mailer because there seems to be no other list online or in the main packaging of these Galaxy Press audio books.
    • 4/5
      Excellent production and acting make for a fun listen. Questionable content for younger listeners. Content is not edited for current political correctness, so overly sensative listeners may balk. No Scientology within.
    • 4/5
      This is the first time I read anything from L. Ron Hubbard. I was very pleased with the two stories that were in this book. The Black Sultan is the main story and was great. Escape for Three was the second story and it also was great. I won this book in a giveaway on goodreads for an honest review. Hubbard was a genius of his time and I look forward to reading more of his work.
    • 4/5
      Received this as an audiobook to review. It is an excellent example of the pulp fiction genre of the American in the Morrocan desert. Main character is on the run from the French foriegn legion and saves the life of a rich sultan. Proceeds to get on the bad side of another sultan (enemy of the first one), falls in love with a damsel in distress, rescues her, escapes the bad guys and wins the girl and gets a job with the "good" sultan. Happily ever after. Only weirdness is the occaisional britishisms coming from supposed Americans. The audiobook is voice acted so easy to get caught up in the action. I prefer voice acted books to ones just read aloud by a single person.
    • 5/5
      I received 'The Black Sultan" by L. Ron Hubbard from Galaxy Press as a review copy for Library Thing Member giveaways. The Black Sultan is about Eddie Moran who is about to be captured in Morocco by the French Foreign Legion. He sees bullets flying at two gentlemen who turn out to be the American vice consul and the other is the recently deposed Berber leader El Zidan. The Black Sultan is full of action and suspense. Plus it also has a little romance. Corey Burton gives an awesome audio performance! I love and enjoy these stories from The Golden Age! To call these stories "audio books" is not giving them enough credit. They are more like an audio play. They are just like listening to the old radio broadcast shows of the 1930's and 1940's. Stories from The Golden Age brings back the magic of the pulp stories.
    • 5/5
      Eddie Moran is an American in Morocco. Unwittingly he involves himself in a war between El Zidan, Berber leader, and the Black Sultan, usurper to the throne.This is part of the "Stories from the Golden Age" series. They are multicast audiobooks. It really has the feel of an old time radio broadcast.
    • 5/5
      Great audio book I'm truly enjoying listing to each of the different stories it's different to listen to a book instead of reading it from a book, it's so intense listen to these books with music that play's into them can't wait to listen to the next set of audio book's great author and narrators will listen to the rest looking forward to it.
    • 4/5
      Loved being able to listen to this book. It was interesting and worth the time.
    • 4/5
      Reviewed for LibraryThing as an early reviewer.Story synopsis: The Black Sultan - Danger and romance find American Eddie Moran in mysterious Morocco. Here he meets British educated Berber leader El Zidan, as well as Shelia Gordon, a damsel in distress. Both the evil Black Sultan and the French Foreign Legion seem determined to bury Eddie under the Atlas Mountains in which they battle.Escape for Three – Three French Foreign Legionnaires plot to rescue/kidnap their Lieutenant from a Berber stronghold. They then plan to whisk him to Morocco and demand payment for their actions. Review: The Black Sultan - The story and setting are typical of pre-World War II adventure fiction ~ the bad guys lose and the hero gets the girl. Chapters end in ‘cliff hangers’ amidst gun battles, knife fights and daring escapes. The story is well read by the actors, and the sound effects are appropriate and well done; the sound quality is good. This fast-paced thriller is as enjoyable as it is predictable. The plot is well crafted, and for the time it was written, a bit racy. If you enjoy ‘old time radio’, you will get so involved in the telling of the tale that you will be surprised that ninety minutes have passed.Escape for Three – The actors ‘chew the scenery’ a bit in this rendition. Some of the accents are difficult to understand, but overall the presentation works well. The plot is in the O’Henry style, providing an unexpected ending.