{"id":4717,"date":"2009-02-01T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2010-02-22T14:48:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T20:48:17","slug":"book-report-sharpes-tiger-by-bernard-cornwell-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/01\/book-report-sharpes-tiger-by-bernard-cornwell-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Sharpe&#8217;s Tiger by Bernard Cornwell (1997)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this book at a garage sale last April, along with 10 others in the 20-something volume series.  You know what?  Ultimately, I made a mistake.  The eleven I have are not contiguous in the series, and after this dose, <i>I want to read the series in order<\/i>.  So instead of a cheap set of books, this one might prove to be pretty expensive if I have to fill in the books at full price.<\/p>\n<p>This book details Private Sharpe&#8217;s participation at the seige of Seringapatam in 1799.  Not just a grunt&#8217;s level view of life in her majesty&#8217;s army, but a good look at that nevertheless with detailed <i>but readable<\/i>.  Sharpe gets under the skin of a sargeant and is drawn into striking the man, which warrants a flogging whose number is not only gratuitious, but also a death sentence in the tropics.  He is reprieved and sent into the enemy stronghold as a deserter.  His real mission: find a senior intelligence official held captive and get his information and, if possible, him out.<\/p>\n<p>An excellent set of books, if this is any predictor.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0060932309&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this book at a garage sale last April, along with 10 others in the 20-something volume series. You know what? Ultimately, I made a mistake. The eleven I have are not contiguous in the series, and after this dose, I want to read the series in order. So instead of a cheap set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5514,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions\/5514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}