Mixed Pickles - the Book log 2012

Another century, another battle, another job for Richard Sharpe... oops! I mean some other person with a sharp sounding name; Hook, yes, that's it, Hook.



Like Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion, Cornwell's soldiers all seem to be re-incarnations (pre-incarnations) of the same man, and it is almost impossible to read this book without hearing Sean Bean's voice. I mean to say - I watch "Lord of the Rings" and I think Bernard Corwell wrote it.

If you like Cornwell, and battles, and mad religious fanatics, and glimpses of historical characters with their trousers round their ankles, and women in peril, this'll pass the time of day more than adequately.

Oh, and final sentences with exactly three beats in them...

Then this one is for you.