budgetmeansbudget wrote:Very good.
As a digression, anyone read the Flashman books by George Macdonald Fraser?
GarlicJam wrote:budgetmeansbudget wrote:Very good.
As a digression, anyone read the Flashman books by George Macdonald Fraser?
Absolutely loved them, Budget. In my late teens, early twenties, I must have read them three times each.
Flashman at the Charge, was my favourite.
budgetmeansbudget wrote:I keep meaning to read them again because they definitely warrant it. There were a couple that weren't as high quality as the rest but favourites of mine are probably the first two, Flashman and Royal Flash, because they got me into the series and I loved Flashman and the Redskins. Flashman at the Charge must have been the one when he was in the Crimea I guess.
GarlicJam wrote:budgetmeansbudget wrote:I keep meaning to read them again because they definitely warrant it. There were a couple that weren't as high quality as the rest but favourites of mine are probably the first two, Flashman and Royal Flash, because they got me into the series and I loved Flashman and the Redskins. Flashman at the Charge must have been the one when he was in the Crimea I guess.
You say there were twelve, eh? I have missed a few - I think the last I read was set around the Boxer Rebellion.
I never did history at school, and reading the Flashman series made me realise how much I had missed out on.
Royal Flash was very good, as was the one that was Flashy getting involved in the slave trade, and running into Abraham Lincoln a couple of times. Was was Flashman and the Great Game about? - as I thought the "Great Game" was the struggle between Russia and Britain for control over India and the "Stans" to the north, but that was covered in Flashman at the Charge....
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