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Sharpe's Tiger
by: Bernard Cornwell

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780001053359
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
ISBN: 0001053353
Label: HarperCollins Audio
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Audio
Number Of Items: 2
Publication Date: June 16, 1997
Publisher: HarperCollins Audio
Release Date: June 16, 1997
Studio: HarperCollins Audio
Sales Rank: 443748

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Blood, Lust, Drink, Local Color, Intrigue, Adventure, Using Your Wits, and Battle
When I checked this book out of the local library, my favorite librarian looked concerned. Based on her knowledge of my reading habits, she was dubious that I would like Sharpe's Tiger. Knowing her reading tastes, I soon realized that the book is far too bloody, raw, and unrestrained for her delicate sensibilities. If you like your adventure stories to be pretty antiseptic in protecting you from grisly reality, this book won't be for you. If, on the other hand, you enjoy feeling like you are there and experiencing the story, you'll adore Sharpe's Tiger.

The year is 1799. The place is Mysore in India. Richard Sharpe is a relatively untested private who is good at thinking and acting quickly. After Sergeant Bickerstaff dies, Sharpe ... Read More:

Rating:

- Excellent
I am so glad that Bernard Cornwell went back to do these. I was lucky enough to read all in date order (I got into these in the past 6 months). Reading the later books makes so much sense as they constantly refer back to previous exploits. Not sure how these would have worked before he wrote these...... doesn't matter now as he has!

Rating:

- A mistake in the book.
First of all, I am a big fan of the series. I have read many of them, although not in the chronological order. When I got my hands over this book I was thrilled. But then I got to the part when he made up verses of the "Koran".
This is not a real review, I have not completed the book because of that, but I felt I should at least state the mistake in it.
I pride myself for being open minded. I didn't object to the fact that the enemy were a Muslim. There were and are some incredibly stupid ones in history, it is human nature, but I could not go any further from the page where the made up verse was. I rated three, even though I suspect I would rate it more if I could complete it, I can't. It may sound silly to you, but I was offended. ... Read More:

Rating:

- Vultures, Tigers and Sharpie, who could ask for more
It's 1799 in India, and Sharpe is 22, a private and thinking of deserting. His arch enemy, Hakeswill, is making his life a misery, and he is bored of the army routine of "hurry up and do nothing". Provoked into striking Hakeswill, Sharpe is flogged. After only part of the sentence is carried out, he's then offered a special assignment. From then on we are taken on a fast and furious action-packed ride based around the Siege of Seringapatam, with Sharpe joining Lieutenant Lawson on a mission to infiltrate the enemy to seek information and free Lawson's uncle who has been captured by the Tippoo.

Cornwall makes no effort to gloss over the privations and unfairness of army life, particularly for the rank and file, and spares no detail ... Read More:

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- Tiger a truimph
Forget the review by A Starbuck Fan - that person has put the same review on every Sharpe prequel which should be removed by an administrator because its not a review of a particular book.

Sharpe's Tiger is the official first book in the long running series. It's a fantastic opener and one you feel Bernard really enjoyed writing. Not only do we see a young Sharpe, confident and a private, but Hakeswill makes a brilliant return, we see Willie lawford and Tom Garrard again.

The story is set in 1799 an the British are at war with the Tippoo Sultan in Mysore. The story is so seemlessly written and descriptive that you are immersed in the story. Not many writers can do that.

Its a cracking book and I feel that the ... Read More:

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