[retired_MikeMcC]

Originally posted by James07?:
You could easily start with Sharpe's Eagle if you've nothing before that as that's the 'original' starting point.

suprising that a book as old as me still reads so well! :thup:

[retired_mnw_cna]

Originally posted by cms186:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by James07?:
You could easily start with Sharpe's Eagle if you've nothing before that as that's the 'original' starting point.

suprising that a book as old as me still reads so well! :thup: </BLOCKQUOTE>

Have you ever heard of Jane Austen, say? Or George Elliot?

[retired_MikeMcC]

Originally posted by James Tringham:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by cms186:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by James07?:
You could easily start with Sharpe's Eagle if you've nothing before that as that's the 'original' starting point.

suprising that a book as old as me still reads so well! :thup: </BLOCKQUOTE>

Have you ever heard of Jane Austen, say? Or George Elliot? </BLOCKQUOTE>

JT being pedantic although tbf, I wasn't trying to say that old books are no good, I was merely saying:

A: imo the series has aged well

B: for a debut book, it is an excellent read

C: Im as old as the book

sorry for not phrasing it properly

[retired_princesspouty]

Originally posted by James Tringham:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Retro:
I got about 150 pages into his Harlequin book and I thought it was the most cliched nonsense I have ever read.

I don't read much fiction - but it was like reading (and writing) by numbers. I don't know what his other books are like but I don't really have any inclination to read any more of them.

Ellis Peters makes a mockery of him when it comes to historical writing.

Ellis Peters is pretty good. I've not long read a couple of books I was given by a bloke called CJ Sansom, of a lawyer in the times of Henry VIII. Have you come across those? I don't know enough about the period to know if they're accurate or not, so I wondered if you'd read them. </BLOCKQUOTE>
I don't read a lot of fiction. I read Ellis Peters because I liked the Cadfael TV series and I'd heard she writes in a way that makes that period come alive (very well researched too).

I'm not that concerned about accuracy although I do prefer it when writers simply use the basic facts and fill in the considerable gaps in most history with dramatisation.

I haven't read the Sansom books but I tend to shy away from Tudor stuff as it's a bit of a saturated market imo.

[retired_kris10nicole]

Originally posted by James Tringham:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by cms186:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by James07?:
You could easily start with Sharpe's Eagle if you've nothing before that as that's the 'original' starting point.

suprising that a book as old as me still reads so well! :thup: </BLOCKQUOTE>

Have you ever heard of Jane Austen, say? Or George Elliot? </BLOCKQUOTE>

He's brilliant, isn't he. :thup:

[retired_brose]

Sharpe is great, read most of the books. My dad is a big Napoleonic Warfare "fan" so he got me into sharpe when i was about 13/14 as a starting point in getting me into the Napoleonic era. I must admit despite the slight historical inaccuracies and budget constraints of the tv shows they are still great fun to watch. Very quotable, used to love my uni days coming back from a night on the **** and about 10 of us marching quicktime like the rifles down the road

[retired_mnw_cna]

Originally posted by mark g:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by James Tringham:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by cms186:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by James07?:
You could easily start with Sharpe's Eagle if you've nothing before that as that's the 'original' starting point.

suprising that a book as old as me still reads so well! :thup: </BLOCKQUOTE>

Have you ever heard of Jane Austen, say? Or George Elliot? </BLOCKQUOTE>

He's brilliant, isn't he. :thup: </BLOCKQUOTE>

Yup, and as macho as they come.

[retired_kris10nicole]

For some reason James, that reminded me of this

Look at what Bob Massingbird did to Oscar Wilde - big, bearded, bonking, butch Oscar, the terror of the ladies. A hundred and fourteen illegitimate children, world heavyweight boxing champion and author of the bestselling pamphlet 'Why I Like to Do It with Girls' - and Massingbird had him sent down for being a whoopsy.

[retired_mnw_cna]

Originally posted by mark g:
For some reason James, that reminded me of this

<BLOCKQUOTE> Look at what Bob Massingbird did to Oscar Wilde - big, bearded, bonking, butch Oscar, the terror of the ladies. A hundred and fourteen illegitimate children, world heavyweight boxing champion and author of the bestselling pamphlet 'Why I Like to Do It with Girls' - and Massingbird had him sent down for being a whoopsy.

</BLOCKQUOTE>

[retired_bball3378]

You’re suggesting George Elliot was gay? His writing doesn’t suggest that in the least, very masculine.