oh yeah, i remember that. Sharpe is undoubtedly a hard bastard, but it was indeed somewhat out of character.

well, i just felt that the manner in which Sharpe got into the situations in order to have a novel in the first place got very contrived when compared to the later books...but this is always a problem for authors rewriting or expanding a character's backstory and i am largely sympathetic to this sort of thing. but i do think the series was two or three books too long. i just hope we won't have a 'Sharpe's Beginning' or something similar dealing with the Flanders campaign.

the Arthurian series rocks and gave me a real enthusiasm for the period just as the original Sharpe books did, they should have read it before they made the recent film.