George MacDonald Fraser
Birth date: April 02, 1925
Died: January 02, 2008
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You cannot fault the writing. It is sublime and quick, funny and easy to read but not see easy it is only a quick-read (if you get me). But hell the character of Flashman is an utter arse. I don't care how well written it is, or how unlike the author is to the character (one would hope) but I am str...
bookshelves: adventure, amusing, historical-fiction, testost-tosh, winter-20102011, victoriana, play-dramatisation, too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts Read from December 12 to 14, 2010 George MacDonald Fraser dramatisation with Angus Wright. 12/14/2010 page 1 0.0% " Renowned cad Sir Harry Flashma...
This continues to suffer from what bothered me in the last installment in the series - less interesting characterization which also leads to less interesting poltics - thus leaving a somewhat disjointed pulpy historical (albeit meticulously so) adventure book. That said, there are some moments of e...
This was pretty fun, but i'm disappointed that dear old Flashman seems to be softening up somewhat. The particular charm of the first book was that he truly is a true scumbag, but ends up a hero because he's a member of an enterprise so corrupt, incompetent and immoral that lying, cheating, stealing...
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11247Opening: You do very well, my friends, to treat me with some little reverence, for in honouring me you are honouring both France and yourselves. It is not merely an old, grey-moustached officer whom you see eating his omelette or draining his glass, but it is a f...