What does /lit/ think of Sharpe?

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>>9248566
Obadiah did nothing wrong

>>9248566

Have not read them since jr. high/high school but I have fond memories. Sharp is a badass. I also read his story about an archer/king or something like that. Don't remember much except the ending but it was badass.

>>9248566
Bernard was one of my favorite authors as a teenager.

Not so sure if I'd read him now, but he's still strongly preferable to young adult fags.

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>>9248566
Cornwell is kino

>>9248826
Does it have any tiger killings in it? I am writing something involving shooting an animal. Will this demoralize me by its excellence?

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A friend at university once compared me to Sir Henry Simmerson

>>9248566
I read a ton of Cornwell as a teenager, but never actually any Sharpe because I had the TV box set instead.

The Archer/Holy Grail series was great, and I liked the Saxon/Viking series as well but at some point stopped reading those because literally all his books have the same plotline, to the extent that he pretty much always kills off the previous book's romance at the start of his new one and then the character goes on to bone some new lady by the middle of the new book

>>9248566
An example of how trash literature can be elevated to decent TV.

Of course it has to be completely rewritten from the ground up.

>>9248566
The first few he wrote were good, old-school, pulpy adventures.
Then they became formulaic money-makers (which is fine)
Then he was obviously tired of the process.

>>9248820
Hit me Sharpy. Go on I dare ya.