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weaselettShould have been re-reading Equilibrium so as to really get my teeth back into things (as i have a week of nothing - unless you count the revision i really should be doing) - but was more tempted by my Sharpe dvds - partly due to the fact the new one is on next week *squee!!!* and partly due to the fact it's just been wayyyy too long.
Unfortunately - it's just made me miss my books - there are only three or four of the sharpe books either me or da don't own - da also owns almost all of bernard cornwall's other books - wanna read company or enemy - right now - but i can't cos, they're miles away at home *sobs* - not fair. Also wanting to read Traflagar (this is where my spelling dies for no reason) for the grace bits. I have cried reading sharpe books - only two of them - and for damn good reason.
Yep - cried when Grace and the baby died (i'm sure the baby died - and that's its not just my crazy brain) and when Theresa died - in the books not the series - the way she died in the book was sooooo much sadder.
Watching regiment and Siege - can't help but still want to throw things at Jane - i mean how could she choose the evil guy who wet himself over Sharpe? She quite pitiful and it's evil - i mean after everything he did for her....
It's sad in the series - with Harper having his little one there - while i don't think Antonia is ever really mentioned after theresa dies - which she is at times in the books - sharpe visits - not often - or reguarly or anything - but she is mentioned.
Siege is just so funny through - with the interaction between Sharpe and Harper - Best friends despite everything - the funniest bit being when Sharpe moans about Harper not being there to set up his tent, make him tea - or to turn down his covers *giggles* - tis sweet. But i have to admit - i love the books more - there is so much more to them, they changed quite a lot of things when they made the series - and i find myself remembering them as they are in the book.
That was the one thing back when i did 18th cent history and my teacher knew i liked sharpe - he'd 'seen'TV series but didn't have a clue that there was a series of boks that came first - plus he always made snarky comments about how sharpe always saved the day, then looked surprised when i knew more about something we where doing than he did, just from sharpe, and never really believed me when i said the books where realy good, and much better than the series for learning about that time and the battles - but he was never much of a battle guy - whereas me, i love a little battle. Sure laws can tell you a lot about a people, but nowhere near as much as what war can tell you. Sounds weird - but it shows how the society works - even now - classes are present even in warfare - eg. old times, the spartans and the helots, the helots went to war with the spartiates but they were used more or less as canon fodder, more recently, the ranks allowed to coloured people, it's a bad comparision in a way, but both are evidence in history of how warfare can show you things. Yeah - me and my teacher, he liked me believe it or not - while i spent a hell of a lot of the time helping everyone else and correcting him. How the hell i managed the grades i did, god only knows. It's got very little to do with extra research - lol- yeah, maybe i shouldn't go on about that.
anyhoo - things to be written - and things to be revised...
Unfortunately - it's just made me miss my books - there are only three or four of the sharpe books either me or da don't own - da also owns almost all of bernard cornwall's other books - wanna read company or enemy - right now - but i can't cos, they're miles away at home *sobs* - not fair. Also wanting to read Traflagar (this is where my spelling dies for no reason) for the grace bits. I have cried reading sharpe books - only two of them - and for damn good reason.
Yep - cried when Grace and the baby died (i'm sure the baby died - and that's its not just my crazy brain) and when Theresa died - in the books not the series - the way she died in the book was sooooo much sadder.
Watching regiment and Siege - can't help but still want to throw things at Jane - i mean how could she choose the evil guy who wet himself over Sharpe? She quite pitiful and it's evil - i mean after everything he did for her....
It's sad in the series - with Harper having his little one there - while i don't think Antonia is ever really mentioned after theresa dies - which she is at times in the books - sharpe visits - not often - or reguarly or anything - but she is mentioned.
Siege is just so funny through - with the interaction between Sharpe and Harper - Best friends despite everything - the funniest bit being when Sharpe moans about Harper not being there to set up his tent, make him tea - or to turn down his covers *giggles* - tis sweet. But i have to admit - i love the books more - there is so much more to them, they changed quite a lot of things when they made the series - and i find myself remembering them as they are in the book.
That was the one thing back when i did 18th cent history and my teacher knew i liked sharpe - he'd 'seen'TV series but didn't have a clue that there was a series of boks that came first - plus he always made snarky comments about how sharpe always saved the day, then looked surprised when i knew more about something we where doing than he did, just from sharpe, and never really believed me when i said the books where realy good, and much better than the series for learning about that time and the battles - but he was never much of a battle guy - whereas me, i love a little battle. Sure laws can tell you a lot about a people, but nowhere near as much as what war can tell you. Sounds weird - but it shows how the society works - even now - classes are present even in warfare - eg. old times, the spartans and the helots, the helots went to war with the spartiates but they were used more or less as canon fodder, more recently, the ranks allowed to coloured people, it's a bad comparision in a way, but both are evidence in history of how warfare can show you things. Yeah - me and my teacher, he liked me believe it or not - while i spent a hell of a lot of the time helping everyone else and correcting him. How the hell i managed the grades i did, god only knows. It's got very little to do with extra research - lol- yeah, maybe i shouldn't go on about that.
anyhoo - things to be written - and things to be revised...
