{"id":4904,"date":"2009-08-14T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4904"},"modified":"2010-02-10T19:53:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T01:53:40","slug":"book-report-sharpes-triumph-by-bernard-cornwell-1998-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/14\/book-report-sharpes-triumph-by-bernard-cornwell-1998-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Sharpe&#8217;s Triumph by Bernard Cornwell (1998, 2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read the first book in this series (<a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/book-report-sharpes-tiger-by-bernard.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Sharpe&#8217;s Tiger<\/i><\/a>) earlier this year, and nobody saw fit to fill in the gaps in the series for my birthday, so here I am reading the second book.<\/p>\n<p>In this book, Sargeant Sharpe is the sole survivor of a massacre by a treasonous English major.  Colonel McCandless takes Sharpe to try to capture the traitor and bring him to justice as English forces march to fight the armies of Northern India.  A good collection of details and episodes based on real history.<\/p>\n<p>One thing between reading this book and <i>Space Vulture<\/i> is how much more detailed modern books are.  The old ones provided some sketches and a fast moving plot, but the books these days really lay on the detail.  I don&#8217;t know, it can take the book out of your imagination a bit and shoehorn it into the author&#8217;s.  Not that this book is that bad, per se, but I think it&#8217;s a general evolution of the common style.  I blame Faulkner.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=0060951974\" 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 read the first book in this series (Sharpe&#8217;s Tiger) earlier this year, and nobody saw fit to fill in the gaps in the series for my birthday, so here I am reading the second book. In this book, Sargeant Sharpe is the sole survivor of a massacre by a treasonous English major. Colonel McCandless [&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-4904","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\/4904","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=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5392,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions\/5392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}