{"id":754,"date":"2010-06-20T17:02:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T01:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=754"},"modified":"2010-06-20T17:03:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T01:03:53","slug":"review-sharpes-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Review: Sharpe&#8217;s Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/mouldering07.html#m07-e\">back<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/mouldering08.html#m08-m\">Napoleonic<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/mouldering09.html#m09-o\">Wars<\/a>, with Bernard Cornwell.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve checked in with Sharpe and the boys, and honestly, they seem to have gotten a little whinier than I remember.\u00a0 Sharpe&#8217;s always been worried about his fate and his love life, but I seem to recall more of this having been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/mouldering09.html#m09-o\">resolved last time<\/a>.\u00a0 This all felt more like a replay than new worries.<\/p>\n<p>Overall this was much more like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=702\"><em>Twilight<\/em><\/a> book than I was expecting. Both of our leading men spend a lot of time weighing their motives in trying to join a Forlorn Hope, and primary meaning aside, it was rather more introspective than I wanted, and their concerns had been played before.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I liked the <em>Twilight<\/em> series, I prefer my men of action to brood less and fight more.\u00a0 Hopefully this was just a brief slacking of the action.\u00a0 We did learn a bunch about siege warfare, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, back to the Napoleonic Wars, with Bernard Cornwell.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve checked in with Sharpe and the boys, and honestly, they seem to have gotten a little whinier than I remember.\u00a0 Sharpe&#8217;s always been worried about his fate and his love life, but I seem to recall more of this having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}