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Posted By: J Dec 29, 2002 - 12:14 pm

Well he is one of my favorite authers, and currently im reading a book of his called "stonehenge" i thinks its fantastic and havent been able to put it down

Posted By: Amaunette Dec 31, 2002 - 08:53 am

I've also read "Stonehenge." In fact, I think it was the only book of Cornwell's that I've read, though I've heard very good things about all of his books. What I like best of all is that he stays true to archeological findings about Stonehenge while keeping the story interesting.

Posted By: J Dec 31, 2002 - 10:45 am

yeah... I first got into cornwell by reading his 'sharpes' seris... they are fantastic...

Posted By: Amaunette Jan 01, 2003 - 11:53 am

What is the "sharpes" series about?

Posted By: J Jan 01, 2003 - 01:07 pm

The sharpes seris is about a soldier in the 1800's i cant explain it but here is the url to a thing about it http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index2.cfm?page=1&SeriesId=1

Posted By: Red Mar 18, 2003 - 01:51 am

Aye, Cornwell is a very good author- the "Sharpe" series (about a base-born British soldier who rises through the ranks during the Indian, Peninsular and Napoleonic Wars, 1790-1815) just about falls into the "historical fantasy" category, as though the books are very well researched and all battles and major events are accurately described as they happened, the principal characters are ficticious.
I've read quite a lot of Bernard Cornwell, and would recommend his Arthurian series (the title of the trilogy escapes me), the "Sharpe" books and his ongoing series about an archer during the "100 years war" ("Harlequin"?). His sea- based stories, which were mainly written before Sharpe I found uninspiring, and I have to say though he wrote the book "Stonehenge" with his usual attention to detail, I thought that he didn't go anywhere with it and that the characters were poor...

Posted By: Amaunette Mar 18, 2003 - 10:42 am

Yeah i've read the one about the 100 years war. The books are "The Archer's Tale" and "Vagabond." I'm in Vagabond right now. It's pretty good.