![]() It is terrible to say, but I cared little for either character. ![]() Likewise, when the story turns to Sergeant Godinot on the French side, the narration remains passionless. His logic is cold and passionless as he lives off the land, occasionally receiving help from Portuguese guerrillas and occasionally harassing the French. The narration is almost clinical as it describes the lengths that Dodd goes to survive once he is cut off from the rest of his unit during an English retreat. Rifleman Dodd is told from a curiously dispassionate perspective. How would Cornwell's later volumes compare to Forester? (My understanding is that Cornwell wanted to write the land version of the Hornblower series.) ![]() ![]() After reading the entire Sharpe series I wanted to get Forester's take on the Peninsular campaign. Written by the author of the excellent Hornblower series, I had high expectations. Rifleman Dodd was a short little book that was solidly OK. ![]()
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