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... Carol - Charles Dickens
3) Lady Susan - Jane Austen (re-read)
4) Maus - Art Spiegelman
5) The last 3 Sharpe books (for the sake of my compulsive sanity)
...anything unfinished will go on the list for next year (here) ... - thank you - I've been thinking that my reading this year has been a bit less varied than normal (lots of YA, lots of Sharpe)! Re Dear Fatty, yes, I suppose it is more family based than anything else. I did enjoy it, but it won't be on my "best of 2009" list, for sure.
The funny ... ... The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley, a wonderful modern noir (I also liked his The Right Madness on your list), and Sharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell, a good starting place in that terrific series set during the Napoleonic Wars. (Chronologically you could start elsewhere with his ... ... Kadrey
Leather Maiden by Joe R. Lansdale
The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
Thunder Bay by William Kent Kruger
Sharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover
The Right Madness by James Crumley
The Soul of a Dog by Jon Katz
Vixen by Ken Bruen
B ... ... with such gusto! And, sad to say to all of you who take Richard Sharpe seriously, I put the Richard Sharpe series of Sharpe's Rifles fame in that same category. It's been a while ago, back at the beginning of this week, when somebody on this list said they were reading Jonathan Strange ... ...
33) The Universe Against Her - James H. Schmitz (not 999)
34) Sharpe's Prey - Bernard Cornwell (not 999)
35) Sharpe's Rifles - Bernard Cornwell (not 999)
36) Sharpe's Eagle - Bernard Cornwell (not 999)
37) Bozo and the Storyteller - Tom Glaister (999: 4) ARC - ... ... H. Schmitz - The Universe Against Her
xii) Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Prey
xiii) Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Rifles
xiv) Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Eagle
xv) Neil Gaiman - Coraline (reread)
xvi) Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Gold
xvii) James Thurber ... ... - I do tend to get a bit obsessive about series (this is probably part of my issue with Robert Jordan...). I think Sharpe's Rifles and the next one (chronologically) Sharpe's Eagle are my favourites to date, so hope you enjoy them too!
#190 Susan & #191 ronincats, actually, it's ... ... enjoy.
>187: flissp, I'm also reading through the Sharpe stuff, though I'm a ways behind you. I've just barely started Sharpe's Rifles.
... H. Schmitz - The Universe Against Her
xii) Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Prey
xiii) Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Rifles
xiv) Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Eagle
xv) Neil Gaiman - Coraline (reread)
xvi) Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Gold
xvii) James Thurber ... ...
I just started the sequence again—I'm in the middle of Sharpe's Prey now, then The Ionian Mission, then Sharpe's Rifles, then Treason's Harbour, then Who Knows What. ... -)
Those insightful, pointed novels replete with anti-imperialistic attitude would include Fathers and Crows, Argall, The Rifles & The Ice-Shirt. He's nearly as prolific writing about prostitutes, though, which some critics consider a fetish of his. OK, another quick update so that I don't loose track:
35) Sharpe's Rifles - Bernard Cornwell
36) Sharpe's Eagle - Bernard Cornwell
(neither 999)
Continuing with my Sharpe fixation - and I've finally reached the Rifles, which were the TV episodes I liked the most... These ... ... of shared comfort favorites here. Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, other Jane Austens, Jeeves and Wooster stories, Sharpe books by Bernard Cornwell, Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny, and Cetaganda by Lois MCMaster Bujold. 18. Sharpe's Rifles -- Bernard Cornwell
The next book in the aforementioned series. Now they're in Spain. On to Portugal!! 28. Sharpe's Rifles by Bernhard Cornwell
The nth re-read... still... This book is the 'odd one out' of the series as it has Sharpe struggling to take command of his riflemen. In no other book, both set chronolgically before and after this one, is he ever again as insecure and unambitious as here. ... ... a request for more Rider at the same time. I'm nothing if not persistent. :-)
And I also love the Sharpe novels. We read Sharpe's Rifles for historical fiction book group, and every single one of us except a woman who couldn't follow the battle scenes enjoyed it. A couple of us went on to ... ... by Dan Abnett
What are your thoughts on the series? Will Gaunt finally die in the end? Is this nothing more than Sharpe in space? ... Lost Time one novel. One ginormous novel. It is split into several parts out of material necessity. As opposed to the Sharpe series, where a bunch of the same characters go on different adventures.
I also consider Kill Bill one movie. ... my library system and I'm enjoying doing these and O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series as commute-killers. So I'll jump to Sharpe's Rifles.
Edit: Since when is there an apostrophe in the word "lots"? #126 cynthiadogmom
You are spot on. I love Merchant Ivory films and the others you mentioned.
Sharpe tv series was ok. I liked the movie Capture The Castle.
I like Up Close and Personal, One Fine Day and Dirty Dancing.
I also love period movies from Dangerous Liaisons to Casanova ... ... Richard Sharpe in Denmark. Another excellent installment in Cornwell's novels about the Napoleonic Wars.
25. Sharpe's Rifles. An absolutely outstanding novel about the French invasion of Galicia in 1809. This is the best of the series so far.
26. Sharpe's Havoc. This time, ... You might try any of Bernard Cornwell series of books. He is most famous for his Sharps Rifles, Sharps Gold ect. (I think there are over a dozen books in this series). He also has a King Arthur Series, a Grail series a Saxon series and so on.
What I like about him is he is very accessible ... I'll second the rave about Bernard Cornwell. I haven't even gotten to Sharpe's Rifles yest but love the first 4 which are all I have read. I heartily second usnmm2's comment about historical accuracy and the nice afterwords he writes--usually quite lengthy for afterwords--explaining where ... You might try any of Bernard Cornwell series of books. He is most famous for his Sharps Rifles, Sharps Gold ect. (I think there are over a dozen books in this series). He also has a King Arthur Series, a Grail series a Saxon series and so on.
What I like about him is he is very accessible ... Some fun long series sets are the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell,
the Poldark series by Winston Graham,
the Smiley spy stories of john Le Carre,
the Adam Dagliesh mysteries of P.D. James,
the inspector Applebey stories of Michael Innes= J.I.M.Stewart ... Todayish (Technically Saturday, but as it's after midnight...):
Sharpe's rifles : Richard Sharpe and the French invasion of Galicia, January 1809 by Bernard Cornwall
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading by Maureen Corrigan
Trawler by Redmond O'Hanlon
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
H ... ... and JK Rowling ar popular authors, but they aren't my favorite.
My favorite author is Bernard Cornwell. His Sharpe series of books is fantastic in the way that the characters are developed, and he makes me feel like I am in the pennisula with Sarpe and Wellington as they fight ... For historical fiction I reccommend the Sharpe's Rifles series by Bernard Cornwell.
I've tagged as Noir in my library what MrsLee has as Golden Age mystery. Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett are the easiest to find and always in print. Other authors in the field include Cornel ... ... a while since I read it but Redcoat by Bernard Cornwell is a great read - as you would expect from the author of the Sharpe series. The Flashman series by George Macdonald Fraser is also high on my list. Bit different from Sharpe or Patrick O'Brian; Fraser's books are irrreverent sendups of the Victorian era told in the context of some of the great adventures of the British Empire. ... on Sharpe for your son. Oh my, you purchased the whole series for him? Mon dieu! I started reading my first Sharpe book "Rifles" in January 2005 during a blizzard here in NYC. Over the months that followed they were the only books I read. Starting with Rifles and ending with Devil. Last ... ... reading Hornblower then you will enjoy Sharpe" type of recommendation. I sent him Sharpe's Tiger, Sharpe's Eagle, and Sharpe's Rifles to begin with -- he quickly requested the entire series. I had heard about Sharpe previous to finding them in Genreflecting; however, I did not think ... ... I read this ten years or more ago. I remember it as an excellent work of historical fiction. Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's series is another work. I have not read them but I am familiar with them. I agree, waiting for January is good for me since I'm still juggling numerous books and haven't had a chance to even BUY let alone START American Gods!!!
Wow, you can really ABUSE these touchstones if you try!
(I've even read two of these!!!) ... The Last Kingdom was as good as I'd hoped. And I haven't tried the Arthur book yet. But one of my friends LOVES his Sharpe series. Eventually, I might give it a try. ... as Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series or a new one I discovered recently, Julian Stockwin. I liked the early Sharpe novels, but I think Cornwell has milked that particular well dry. Simon Scarrow does a 'Sharpe joins the Roman Army' type series, but I don't think he's ...
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