"The Vein Openers" Topic
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| Tango01 | 30 Mar 2020 12:08 p.m. PST |
"It is 1808 and the Napoleonic Wars are raging across Europe. Take an exciting journey through the early stages of the Peninsular War with Joshua Firth, a young English lieutenant in the 29th regiment of Foot. Firth and his friend Samuel Brook are about to leave their homes in Yorkshire to join Sir Arthur Wellesley's army in Portugal…"
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| MaggieC70 | 31 Mar 2020 7:25 a.m. PST |
Wow! A new book about a bloke in a regiment in the Peninsula…how original! Never been done before. |
| Tango01 | 31 Mar 2020 12:34 p.m. PST |
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| arthur1815 | 31 Mar 2020 2:19 p.m. PST |
But MaggieC70, look at all the books about British naval officers in the Napoleonic Wars from Hornblower to Aubrey et al.
There's a market for this type of novel, so one can't blame an author from trying to profit from it. |
| MaggieC70 | 31 Mar 2020 3:02 p.m. PST |
I don't blame the author at all. Just as I don't blame all those silly writers of Regency Romances, or those who churn out WWII romances. I blame readers with limited imaginations and apparent willingness to accept and even like bad writing, cliched plots, cardboard characters, anachronisms, and Bad Historical Research. The author of this particular Peninsular Potboiler is going to have a difficult time selling many copies when as an unknown writer he charges $9.95 USD for the Kindle version. Just sayin'. |
| arthur1815 | 01 Apr 2020 5:06 a.m. PST |
MaggieC70, you wrote, "I blame readers with limited imaginations and apparent willingness to accept and even like bad writing, cliched plots, cardboard characters, anachronisms, and Bad Historical Research." But your post seemed merely to be criticising the author for entering territory hitherto dominated by Richard Sharpe, not accusing him of 'bad writing' &c. Are you, in fact, accusing him of those faults? |
| MaggieC70 | 01 Apr 2020 7:52 a.m. PST |
Let's just say that I was underwhelmed by the sample pages on Amazon that I read. Other readers may well see it differently, which is fine. |
| Tango01 | 01 Apr 2020 12:40 p.m. PST |
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| SHaT1984 | 01 Apr 2020 2:45 p.m. PST |
>>"It is 1808 and the Napoleonic Wars are raging across Europe. Fails on first factoid- unknown to me what 'wars' were happening elsewhere in 1808. A few localised issues perhaps, but nary a marching Corps to be seen, outside Iberia.
/SarcOff\
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