Sharpe's Tiger: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799 [Sharpe 1] |
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Bernard Cornwell
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Pages: 384 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0006490352
Pub: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub date: 1998-06-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3082
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Tiger a truimph (0/0 people found this helpful)
Forget the review by A Starbuck Fan - that person has put the same review on every Sharpe prequel which should be removed by an administrator because its not a review of a particular book.
Sharpe's Tiger is the official first book in the long running series. It's a fantastic opener and one you feel Bernard really enjoyed writing. Not only do we see a young Sharpe, confident and a private, but Hakeswill makes a brilliant return, we see Willie lawford and Tom Garrard again.
The story is set in 1799 an the British are at war with the Tippoo Sultan in Mysore. The story is so seemlessly written and descriptive that you are immersed in the story. Not many writers can do that.
Its a cracking book and I feel that the Indian Trilogy is Bernard's is the best of the "new" Sharpe books.
A good start to a grand series (1/1 people found this helpful)
'Sharpe's Tiger' is chronologically the first book in the series about Cornwell's archetypical redcoat, but not the first book he wrote, which explains why it is as accomplished as many of the later novels in the series. The common ingredients of most other Sharpe-novels are already here: there's action galore, a love-interest, and off course a couple of accomplished villains standing between Sharpe and his destiny (if that's not too grand a word).
I did find Sergeant Hakeswill almost grotesque and therefore unbelievable in his spite and anger towards Sharpe, but that's a minor default because regardless of that I couldn't keep myself from reading on until way past bedtime.
Perfect leisure!
Cornwell continues his betrayal (0/5 people found this helpful)
I read all of the original Sharpe series in the eighties and thought that the series had come to it's natural conclusion with Sharpes Waterloo in 1990. I was very suprised to see Sharpes Devil a couple of years later and to my mind this was a book too far in the series. Cornwell was always writing other books including the excellent Redcoat as well as his nautical thrillers. When he started the Starbuck chronicles I was delighted and followed Nates adventures in the same manner as I had Sharpe's. Then, after the Sharpe series had been shown on tv Cornwell abandoned "The Starbuck Chronicles" mid-series (after four books)and resurrected Sharpe. Not to sound too cynical but the only reason for this betrayal of fans who had bought the new books and were following Starbuck could only have been money...Cornwell betrayed and sacrificed the Starbuck fans for a newer and more lucrutive market...the new Sharpe fans worldwide who came to the books after the tv series. In order to continue to cash in along came all the new books each one inserted in a different period of Sharpe's career. If you have read the original series you won't recognise Sharpe's description in the new books..because it's Sean Bean!...Thanks Bernard, how's the yacht?
Brilliant (0/0 people found this helpful)
I must say I started reading the Sharpe books about last summer (2006) and I've read all 23 and to be honest the first three that I read were the prequels and despite the fact that I read them over the longest time ago I remember them the most. There the ones that got me hooked.
There the best books. mainly thanks to the huge amounts of the disgustingly evil and yet attractive in the same way that prodding a bruise is strangely attractive after you've found you have one. But also I prefer them to the other also brilliant Sharpe books because Sharpe is alone. No high ranking friends because he isn't an officer he's happy how he is but now its all turned up side down after Assaye this is the story of just after that fateful day.
The shier vivid ness of the battles is what makes them great all of them are so vivid and the story isn't simply one sided it tells you about the Indians point of view as well.
IT IS TRUELLY ONE OF THE BEST SHARPE BOOKS EVER AND THIS IS FROM A TRUE SHARPE FAN BRILIANT WORK FORM CORNWALL
A great place to start (0/0 people found this helpful)
I was scared of reading these 'prequels', having enjoyed the original napoleonic series so much.
This book is an equal to any of Bernard's previous Sharpe books. The dialogue is great, the drama is thrilling, teh characters are colourful. It's also enjoyable to see the beginning of Sharpe as the British army's best soldier - with the spawning of some relationships that crop up ten years later.
It is also a good place to start for anyone taht has not read any sharpe books. I read this in 3 sittings.
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