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 Nov 17 2009, 07:07 AM
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QUOTE(Kardinal @ Nov 16 2009, 05:03 AM)  I'm 80% through Azincourt and still enjoying it. It's a bit predictable in most ways, though. A priest enemy who does something terrible to someone the protagonist loves dearly. The second Michael entered the picture I knew he would die due to the vendetta. Hook losing a finger was no surprise either. Sometimes it seems Cornwell can't do a single novel without: 1) An evil priest 2) The protagonist losing someone he loves 3) The protagonist being maimed. Still enjoying it, though. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Yeah (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) As soon as I read the passage where Nick spots his brother, I was thinking, "you poor sod, you're so dead." |
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Jan 2 2010, 03:38 PM
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I'm not reading this thread until I get thru the book, but I did get thru the prologue. once again BC takes a perfectly good female and kills her off. I know I could start all sorts of arguments about this, but I swear this guy has issues against women. I wonder just how many women he'll kill off in this?
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Jan 3 2010, 06:51 AM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Don't worry, there's another perfectly good female later on. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Actually, some of Bernard's women are very strong and excellent characters. There's a whole bunch of them in the Sharpe books and yes, he does sometimes kill them off, but it's usually as part of the plot. Take (for example) Hakeswill killing Theresa and Sharpe taking revenge - it was incredibly moving and gripping reading. Losing their women is often part of what makes Bernard's men stronger.
-------------------- SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us all the time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.
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Jan 20 2010, 01:34 AM
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I'm not quite done yet, but I'm nearly there. I've gotten to the Sir Swan part which made me smile a bit because its a name in my family. I am pleasantly surprised at a lot of the same aspects that have been mentioned already, so I won't rewrite them all. I totally believe in the two Saints chatting with Nick, its an interesting subject that most people I think would shrug off as fantasy.
Am I the only one who caught Thomas of Hookton being mentioned in the book? I can't remember which part but it was closer to the beginning. It made me wonder a bit if Nick was some sort of relative, maybe distantly. Another thing is the illness that keeps being brought up. I'm surprised it got so ignored by the king in this. I would have thought so many men being so ill and dieing would have had more of an effect on things. -------------------- |
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Jan 28 2010, 12:54 PM
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Do you really think Nick was speaking to the two saints, and not just voices in his head? Before he travelled to France, he thought he was hearing voices from God...
I think illnesses in the army were quite common in Europe during those times. So maybe Henry knew about it but just didn't care? Leaders probably saw them as inevitable when large numbers of people gather together in camps. As long as the majority could still fight, they probably just got on with it. |
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Jan 28 2010, 05:02 PM
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General Group: Administrator Posts: 2,787 Joined: 7-April 07 From: Cardiff, Wales, UK and Tucson, Arizona Member No.: 7 |
Sickness was always (as far as I'm aware) a problem with siege warfare. It took a long time before the connection was made between soiled water and sickness and it seems to have been a sort of accepted risk.
As to Nick hearing the saints - who knows? As far as he was concerned he was hearing them. As far as Moses was concerned he was hearing the voice of God and Saint Bernadette was convinced she heard the Virgin Mary. Were they crazy or were they really being guided by something else? We'll probably never know. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) -------------------- SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us all the time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.
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Jan 29 2010, 06:32 AM
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I think we're on tricky theological ground here (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
I know I don't get voices in my head.. I hear voices all the time though - although thats usually the good lady wife telling me to do the dishes, mow the lawn etc (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I think Nick had it easier hehehe (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) --------------------  |
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