Book Recommendation: Jack Tanner

[Andy in Sig]

Bearing in mind that User1314 was recently going on about the ins and outs of Gabriel Maria Marquez (sp?) I ought to feel a bit bashful about the following. Then again I don't really rate novels about deep and meaningful insights into the human condition and am happy for them to be confined to the N London literati.

So if you enjoyed the Sharpe stories, here's a tip: the Jack Tanner series by James Holland. Jack Tanner is basically a reincarnation of Sharpe in WW2. So far three books have been published. The first one is called The Odin Mission and gets a five stars unputdownable rating from me.

Slightly more humourous are the Coward series by James Delingpole (Coward On The Beach being the first). Ditto the rating.

 

[ASC1951]

Then again I don't really rate novels about deep and meaningful insights into the human condition and am happy for them to be confined to the N London literati.

Don't you need both? I wouldn't want to be marooned with just Love In The Time Of Cholera, but a constant diet of airport books is about as worthwhile as watching Iron Man on a loop.

 

[Andy in Sig]

I must confess to being an avid reader of and collector of first editions by, Anthony Burgess. I must also confess that on the whole I avoid books which get the critics frothing with enthusiasm.

I quite like Hermann Hesse too, Narziss and Goldmund being the only novel I've read which I rate as being a great work of art.