Ep 602 - Sharpe's Eagle (Richard Sharpe #1), by Bernard Cornwell

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Bring on the battalion of Dad Books! Cornwell started writing the Richard Sharpe novels because he wanted something like Horatio Hornblower on land. Well, we haven't read any Hornblower yet but we can attest that this book sure is about a British rifleman fighting in the army during the Napoleonic Wars!

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:06.2	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.5	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.2	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:21.4	Hey everybody, welcome to OverDue, it's podcast about the books you've been meaning
0:47.8	to read.
0:48.8	My name is Craig.
0:49.8	My name is Andrew and I'm marching off to war.
0:57.1	Is that the energy we're bringing to the battlefield?
1:01.6	Because we got another one of these war boys.
1:04.1	Yeah, we do got a war boy this week.
1:05.7	If we were going to do a long read podcast about, I don't know, super long book series is
1:11.8	about some guy and his adventures in historical battles, we would have lots of fodder I think.
1:19.2	He would be called great men, but great would be spelled G-R-A-T-E, and it would be like
1:25.6	an old-timey soldier getting cheese-graded because war just grates you up.
1:30.3	It's so bad.
1:31.3	I was going to call it war boys, but I like your idea too.
1:35.9	Well, mostly because like, so I'm going to be talking about Sharps Eagle by Bernard Cornwell.
1:44.7	I don't know if it's Bernard or Bernard.
1:47.5	Let's.
1:48.5	Well.
1:49.5	Mr. Cornwell.
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