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Title: Sharpe's Honor by Bernard Cornwell ISBN: 0-14-029435-X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The surreal Sharpe
Comment: This is the odd man out in the series (so far), which is a nice change. For much of the novel, Sharpe is out of the army, without Harper or Hogan, and on the run, trying to clear his name and win back his officer's commission.
The scene where Sharpe rescues his lover, a onetime French spy, from a nunnery is the funniest writing in the series so far (eight books and counting). And when a fortuitous explosion frees him from the French, the description of Sharpe wandering away, drunken and dazed, from the burning castle is surreal.
For anyone who thinks Sharpe is a one-dimensional hero character, Sharpe's Honor shows Sharpe's many weaknesses: his inability to sidestep a ruinous challenge to his honor; his blind obsession with a woman who is at best, fickle, at worst, treacherous; his destructive self-pity.
This novel concentrates on the interior worlds of Sharpe and other characters more than earlier books have. It's illuminating to see the battle of Vittoria from so many viewpoints. And Cornwell continues to show that truth is stranger than fiction by taking incidents that really happened, such as the bizarre looting of the French baggage train, and weaving them into the story.
Sharpe's Honor is another strong entry in the series.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great story.
Comment: Excellent adventure reading. I liked all Sharp stories.
Rating: 4
Summary: Entertaining though somewhat thin!
Comment: This one's a fast-paced jaunt through parts of Spain during the Napoleonic Wars as the British Lord Wellington confronts and battles Napoleon's occupying forces in that country. Major Richard Sharpe, a lower class sort of guy who has worked his way up the military ranks through prior escapades and prior books, is here confronted with false charges and must prove his innocence through a secret excursion behind enemy lines. This is the stuff of great excitement. And yet I found much of it predictable and the character of the major and his "lady love" and the assorted villains all rather thin and one-dimensional. The series in which this book is placed apparently has a devoted following and this is not surprising for Cornwell has a light hand on the narrative helm and a keen eye for detail and for vividly depicting the scenes in which the tale takes place, especially in the heat of battle. But his villains are just too evil for my taste and his "good guys" too perfect. I was never in doubt, even for a moment, that the good major would work his way out of every predicament and move on, inexorably, to the next book. Maybe that's a hazard of a series like this. Anyway, it was well written if ultimately rather light reading. -- SWM
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Title: Sharpe's Sword: Richard Sharpe and the Salamanca Campaign June and July, 1812 by Bernard Cornwell ISBN: 0140294333 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Sharpe's Company: The Siege of Badajoz by Bernard Cornwell ISBN: 0140294325 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell ISBN: 0140294392 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 02 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Sharpe's Devil : Chile 1820 by Bernard Cornwell ISBN: 0060932295 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Sharpes Gold: Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, August 1810 by Bernard Cornwell ISBN: 0140294317 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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