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Is Bernard Cornwell peak Brit/lit/?

>> No.19515093
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>>19514957
no, but Patrick O'Brian is

>> No.19515351

>>19514957
>>19515093
Imagine if they were in the showers after a cricket match and their penises accidentally rubbed together.

>> No.19515588

>>19515093
>One-eth by land, two-eth by sea
The two are equally enjoyable

>> No.19515961

>>19515588
O'Brian is a full order-of-magnitude better. Cornwell is enjoyable on the same level that CS Forester is - fun and engaging genre reads. O'Brian's works rise to the level of real literature.

>> No.19516129

>>19515961
O'Brian repeats himself way too often. Also there's the pedophile rape in India sequence.

>> No.19517090

>>19515961
Again, it's nice to balance sea adventure from Trafalgar forward with the land campaign up the Iberian Peninsula to Waterloo. O'Brian's central characters are 'more cultured' than Cornwell's but all in all I enjoyed the Sharpe adventures as much as the A & M

>> No.19517272

>>19517090
is Sharpe's Trafalgar worth a read if I enjoyed the Aubrey/Maturin novels?

>> No.19517561

>>19517272
I've read all the Iberian campaign books from Sharpe's Rifles to Warerloo as well as Sharpe's Tiger which takes place in India well before the campaigning against the Empire. I did recently pick that volume up oddly enough (Trafalgar) I just haven't read it yet.

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>>19514957
His book/audiobook on Waterloo is superb.

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19519793

Flashman is better.