Bob's comments
(member since Dec 21, 2008)
Bob's comments from the The Gunroom group.
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Arrr, This be pleasin' to me eye!
I really hope this happens. Thanks for the information--my son will also be very happy!
patrick tullhe is the best and the only reader that has read all the books
I take Sharpe for the same reason I take medicine. Even though it tastes bad, I know it’s good for me and makes me a better person. :)
"To tell the truth, sir, I believe I had rather sit in the shelter for a while. The cabbage seems to have turned my inward parts to water.’ ‘Nonsense,’ said Stephen, ‘it is the most wholesome cabbage I have ever come across in the whole of my career. I hope, Mr. Herapath, that you are not going to join in the silly weak womanish unphilosophical mewling and puling about the cabbage."
Like someone else in this group--I started with "The Wine Dark Sea." At the same time I sent a copy of the recording to my son and got about 20 pages in the book and said, O'my god this is outstanding, I have to start from the begining. So I sent Steve a copy of book one and the rest is history.
Over the past two & 1/2 years my 40 year-old son and I have listened to the Aubrey/Maturin novels, the Sharpe series with other adventure novels thrown in as the whim strikes us.
We are careful to stay at about the point in the recording. As my son leaves work each day—about 3:30 PM my time--he calls and we laugh and talk about what we are listening to. Many times we just say, “Can you believe how much detail is in the book? I know I have said it before; but, how does O’Brien know so much?”
The two of us are not really so anal—well my son is But, what a wonderful experience for the both of us. I tell this to friends and most of the time they look at me with a crocked face.
We would “never” listen to anyone other than Patrick Tull—what snobs!
I read somewhere that "Sharpe's Trafalgar" was Cornwell's salute to O’Brian. I think Cornwell did a very good job.
I can say "Sharpe." However, the Sharpe series is much harsher, none of the light hearted friendship of Aubrey/Maturin.
