Hi Bernard,
I first came across Thomas of hookton in the basement of a German pub I was working in about 10 years ago. I have no idea how it got there, but I picked it up one day during a rather boring day time shift and started reading it.
Luckily it was Harlequin and I happened to start the series on the right book.
I took a long break then, and I was in college and had enough other reading to do. But I eventually got back to finishing off the grail quest.
Then after a few years break I decided to look up some of your other works, and the Sharpe series being so large I opted for Uthred and his viking ways!
It turned into a bit of a war for the books in my house. My two other flat mates got into Uthred after I gave them book one, and soon after they started pestering me for book two and they were hot on my heels.
They books were even traded for favours once one person had won the rights to read it next, i.e, I’ll trade you the next Uthred book first if you drop me to town and spare me a taxi!
That was about 3 years ago. I always take a break from the same style of books and authors. I think it is good to mix things up.
Anyway, that bring me to this year and I decided to read the Sharpe series because it’s winter and wet and crap and work was too stressful to allow myself to do anything in the evening except escapism!
I read every book in Richard Sharpe’s series between Christmas and late March.
I thoroughly enjoyed them all, and if you asked me at Christmas would I ever get through the whole series I would probably have said no, as it looked so big and daunting!
So thank you for such great books and a lot of reading through a particularly miserable winter.
And in a totally unrelated event, I am now saving up for a telescope!
Regards,
Brian