I meant to talk with you more about Sharpe, but the conversation went elsewhere and then I forgot to bring it up again. But yeah, I love Sharpe, TV and books both. Though I do wish the movies had a bit more dosh to work with. Staging Waterloo with twenty guys does tend to pale.
I've still got, I think, three of the books to read. I tend to ration them out, one or two a year. I think they are getting a bit tired, and since Cornwell's just filling in the leftover bits now there isn't as much dramatic tension, but I still enjoy the damn things.
It's the only series I've read so much of and not yet gotten sick of. Most other series I read 2 to 4 of, figure out the formula and can't be arsed to read the rest of. I figured out the Sharpe pretty damn quick, but it's one that seems so tailor-made to hit my kinks--low-born bit of scruff with an anti-authoritarian streak and huge competence in matters of war takes on villains foreign and domestic--that I don't care. Ah, Sharpe.
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Date: 2007-10-06 06:00 pm (UTC)I've still got, I think, three of the books to read. I tend to ration them out, one or two a year. I think they are getting a bit tired, and since Cornwell's just filling in the leftover bits now there isn't as much dramatic tension, but I still enjoy the damn things.
It's the only series I've read so much of and not yet gotten sick of. Most other series I read 2 to 4 of, figure out the formula and can't be arsed to read the rest of. I figured out the Sharpe pretty damn quick, but it's one that seems so tailor-made to hit my kinks--low-born bit of scruff with an anti-authoritarian streak and huge competence in matters of war takes on villains foreign and domestic--that I don't care. Ah, Sharpe.