Cornwell's "Sharpe" Novels

The original novels are outstanding. Cornwell's writing is exciting as well as educational. You will learn gobs of historical information, just through the plot and dialog. When I first began reading the series, I read all of the then-published books, back-to-back. I believe there were twelve, at the time, beginning with Sharpe's Rifles through Sharpe's Waterloo. I read them all in one month. I was so intrigued by them, and the history in general, that it inspired one of my most cherished historical miniature projects:

http://gregheilers.net/sharpe.html

Much later, I tried to begin reading the novels that had been written since then. Sadly, I could not get into them. I am afraid I burned myself out, by reading the first twelve in such a quick time-span.

:-(