| Tango01 | 12 Jul 2014 11:24 p.m. PST |
Finished to read now.
Not bad, but not in the list of the best Shape's books. Free for read here.
link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
| John the OFM | 13 Jul 2014 5:41 a.m. PST |
Sorry, but it reeks of "fanfic", so I will avoid it like the plague. |
| Zargon | 13 Jul 2014 9:31 a.m. PST |
But always good for a scenario run, so I'm in, Thanks Armand and good luck for the football (soccer;)tonight. |
| Tango01 | 13 Jul 2014 12:52 p.m. PST |
Hope you enjoyed it my friend and many thanks! Amicalement
Armand |
| spontoon | 13 Jul 2014 6:17 p.m. PST |
For pity's sake will someone please kill Sharpe!
Bernard Cornwell can write when he wants too, but too much Sharpe! |
| Tango01 | 13 Jul 2014 11:18 p.m. PST |
Well… if you read the book, Gator was very very near… (smile). Amicalement
Armand |
| green beanie | 14 Jul 2014 12:22 p.m. PST |
But Cornwell did not write the books in order for some years ago I the one that took place in the 1820's when Harper & Sharpe were on St. Hellena to watch Napoleon take his last breath. I am trying to figure out how Sharpe got from New Orleans to Waterloo so fast, considering Wellington wished he had some of those veteran units at Waterloo instead of some of the green units he did have. So, unlike in horse shoes & nukes, very, very near does not count. |
| Winston Smith | 14 Jul 2014 4:11 p.m. PST |
Actually Sharpe was living on his farm on Normandie during this time period. |
| 138SquadronRAF | 14 Jul 2014 6:22 p.m. PST |
Bernard Cornwell can write when he wants too, but too much Sharpe! Trouble is nearly all of Cornwell's characters are like Sharpe – I mean have you read his Civil War series? |
| bakblast | 14 Jul 2014 7:51 p.m. PST |
If I remember correctly, back in '14 after Tulouse Richard was framed, cuckolded, hooked up with a French babe, traveled to Naples, teamed up with Calvet, killed Duco and allienated Fredrickson. Now some one else puts him in Louisiana, a clear case of bilocation. Frankly I was hoping he would cross paths with Jackie Faber, after all she was in New Orleans a couple years earlier. And miss Rebecka Worthington Howe could certainly take the sting out of things. |
| Tango01 | 14 Jul 2014 11:34 p.m. PST |
At the end of the book, Cornwell's propose to change some sentences from previous books and it fixed how Richard can be there. Amicalement
Armand |
| bakblast | 15 Jul 2014 5:18 p.m. PST |
Tango don't you mean Alan Kempner, he is the author of Sharpes Gator, not Bernard Cornwell. |
| Winston Smith | 16 Jul 2014 5:17 a.m. PST |
It's fanfic Armand. Fan fiction.
If Cornwell had written it it would have been published as a real book and sold.
As Doctor Johnson observed, " None but an ass, Sir, writes for anything but money. " I think there are no more time gaps to fill, so no more Sharpe stories left.
I am sure Cornwell realized the possible commercial success of Sharpe at New Orleans but could make it work. |
| Tango01 | 16 Jul 2014 11:21 a.m. PST |
My mistake, I want to said Alan instead of Bernard. About no more Sharpe, he still can go to Canada!.(smile). Amicalement
Armand |
| bakblast | 16 Jul 2014 8:34 p.m. PST |
There is one more posibility for Sharpe. An episode where he meets the B*#%h Jane for the first time. I think it would be the perfect oportunity for a semi collabrative effort between Cornwell and L.A. Meyers. Two seperate characters, two separate books with one common event, the impulsive Jackie Faber plays matchmaker to Sharpe and Jane only to later realize Jane is a *u$^. Sharpe meanwhile is annoyed by this rambunctios teenage guttersnipe whom the high command seams to have a dubious high regard for. Let fiction rule, the two paths must cross! |
| Royal Marine | 28 Jul 2014 4:25 a.m. PST |
Sharpe is fiction!!!! When did that happen? I based all my games on the reality of Cornwall's true history books about Sharpe's exploits. |
paints his first three ships from the starter set.