There's a historical writer (Bernard Cribbins or summit similar) who wrote Sharpe. His books are next on my list, especially his King Arthur trilogy.
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Stephen Leather - "Birthday Girl"
I started reading this months ago, but I only ever read it at the car wash (have to wait an hour or so) - or at the beach. I keep having to go back 10 pages to get back into it. But it's a damn good read.
I started reading S. Leather after reading "Private Dancer", which I read in two sittings. Then I read "Tunnel Rats" and "Tango One".
Bernard Cornwell - I got 8 Sharpe books for 10 quid from a book club in the UK. Excellent stuff. (I did Europe 1789-1870 for my O levels so I'm quite keen on books about that era. Also Ancient Rome and Greece).
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I've noticed that Stephen Leather books are appearing on the shelves of UK supermarkets at the moment.
^Which book club is this?
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Just started Agincourt by Juliet Barker. I'm fascinated by reading about people's lives around this tme. On the timescale of human history it is but a blink; but oh the difference. I remember reading about Waterloo and thinking about how alien everything seemed, yet it was only one hundred years before WW 1.....How will people in two hundred year's time view us?
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I've moved on from the really great read on Patton to a book titled:
John Wayne "American"
It's a damn good book.
"Perfume" by Patrick Suskind. A crazy story of an 18th century orphan in France who is obsessed with odor.
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'Imperium' by Robert Harris. An historical novel about Cicero.
I'm reading a book about the wives of Henry the Eighth.
I just started "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara, a historical novel about four generals in the Gettysburg battle, after finished the prequel "Gods and Generals."
Also, having just returned from New Orleans, am re-reading "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. His mother got it published several years after his suicide. It's hysterically funny, yet one sees the depression and borderline insanity at the edge of the humor.
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