Kevin's Watch

peter wrote:My libraries selection was pretty paltry Av so I took the one with the most recognisable title.

Ah yes...I didn't think of that...my first forays into Cornwell were from the library, and it was catch as catch can, really.

Over the years, between my father and I, we got most of them. I think I'm only missing one or two of the entire series.

The titles are rarely descriptive though (with the exception of Sharpe's Waterloo), so check the sub-titles to see where each is set.

...some references are made to earlier events.

It's worse when you get to the originals, and no reference is made to them.

Anyway, I'm on Sharpe's Gold, the second book as written, set in 1810 around the destruction of Almeida.

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Sharpe's Escape, the Bussaco Campaign, 1811. (One of the ones written at a later date to fill in gaps in the original series timeline.)

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Sharpe's Fury, the battle of Barossa, 1811.

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Ghost Rider - Apocalypse Soon

collecting Ghost Rider #12-13, in which our hero fights a random demon first, then the Hulk. the Hulk battle takes place during World War Hulk.
story by Daniel Way, art by Javier Saltares.

and also Ghost Rider Annual #1, story by Stuart Moore and art by Ben Oliver.
in which our hero fights a reincarnated Lucifer.

I thought issue #12 to be too generic. fight one demon, fight them all sort of thing.

#13 was the actual battle with the Hulk. I thought this was done well. and the dialogue between Stephen Strange and Reed Richards is revealing.

the Annual was also well done, with a very good story that rewards you some nice revelations.

also included is an illustrated interview with Mark Steven Johnson, the man who wrote and directed the first Nic Cage as Ghost Rider film. and then an interview with Nicolas Cage. and then an interview with Garth Ennis and Clayton Crain, the writer and artist on a Ghost Rider miniseries : Road to Damnation.

also interviews with Daniel Way and Javier Saltares. then some real treats, interviews with Mike Ploog about his drawing some Ghost Rider in the 70's. Roy Thomas who wrote some Ghost Rider in the 70's. and Howard Mackie who wrote a non-Johnny Blaze version of Ghost Rider in the 80's.

I got this at half price books for around 7 bucks, and I am very happy with it for that price.

Just finished Bag of Bones last night, now it's on to Finnegan's Wake!

Rigel wrote:...now it's on to Finnegan's Wake!

Have fun with that.

I read Sharpe's Company (siege of Badajoz) and Sharpe's Sword (Salamanca campaign) this weekend. Skipped Sharpe's Battle, (one of my least favourite) and now on Sharpe's Enemy, unusual in that it is one of the very few that are almost entirely fictional.

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Rigel wrote:Just finished Bag of Bones last night, now it's on to Finnegan's Wake!

give us a review please.

Avatar wrote:

Rigel wrote:...now it's on to Finnegan's Wake!

Have fun with that.

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Yeah, umm...

I can't read a single page Maybe I should study Irish Gaelic first?

With my penchant for picking up odd sayings and phrases, I think I would probably end up functionally unintelligible if I managed to get through Finnegan's Wake.

One day, I will read Finnegan's Wake.... but that day is not today! Today, I'm still making my way through Don Quixote and Grapes of Wrath whilst reading The Spanish Civil War by a Hugh Thomas and a collection of essays by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Rigel wrote:I can't read a single page Maybe I should study Irish Gaelic first?

No need for that (Joyce didn't speak Irish, AFAIK). What is useful though is Joyce's Book of the Dark by John Bishop (it's a bit pricey new, so see of you can get it secondhand). It'll help put some sort of framework on the the thing and make it not seem so fearsome. I haven't read more than a few pages of Finnegan's Wake, but I'm no longer afraid of it!

u.

More words have been written in analysis of Wake than Joyce ever wrote himself. The whole book is a big Möbius strip of a joke, and Joyce said people would argue about it for a thousand years.

I found the trick was not to focus too much. Read it like SoC and just let it flow.

Anyway, I'm on Sharpe's Honour, the Vitoria campaign, 1813.

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Sharpe's Regiment, another mostly fictitious book, and the only Sharpe book set mostly in England

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not a fan of hers, but I enjoy the books.

Sharpe's Siege, the winter campaign of 1814.

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Can't get through Finnegan's Wake, so I'm starting on Of Human Bondage. I read about half of it when I was a teenager, and enjoyed that half, but I don't remember why I stopped.

I'm also reading Carl Hiaasen's Tourist Season, because... well, we all like ice cream, don't we? That's Carl Hiaassen to me

+JMJ+

Theo-Logic Vol. I: Truth of the World by H. U. von Balthasar

Rigel wrote:I'm also reading Carl Hiaasen's Tourist Season, because... well, we all like ice cream, don't we? That's Carl Hiaassen to me

I like Hiaasen.

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I don't have the next book in the series for some reason, so I'm on Sharpe's Waterloo. Title says it all really.

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Started "Divergent."
Re-read started reading "Confessions."

Over the summer, I read these books, too:
"Please look after mom," by Kyung-Sook Shin
"Everything I never told you," by Celeste Ng

sgt.null wrote:not a fan of hers, but I enjoy the books.

not sure, but is this the right time for me to admit I used to read Rush Limbaugh's books...?