Flashman!

[Caravan Ray]

One of my greatest guilty pleasures is the Flashman series of novels by George MacDonald Fraser.

The series takes the charachter of Harry Flashman, the school bully of Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown's School Days and follows his adventures through virtually every major historical event of the 19th century. Flashman remains a snivelling coward and a bully but somehow ends up being a hero of the British Empire.

The stories are very funny and very educational - Fraser provides lots of footnotes linking the story to actual historic events.

Anyone else out there a fan of Flash Harry?

[Kamakura]

Anyone else out there a fan of Flash Harry?

Oh yeah!

There's a new book out too: 'Flashman on the March'.

Check out http://www.harryflashman.org
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Flashman's Scale of Drunkenness:
0 Plain Tom Browned.....'Tom Brown's School Days'
1 Minutely Manchooed..... Manchoo Dynasty 'Flashman and the Dragon'
2 Vaguely Victoria crossed..... Awarded to Flashman in 'mountain of Light'
3 Reasonably Capriced.....'Flashman and the Tiger'
4 Nicely Yehonolared.....'Flashman and the Dragon'
5 Completely Cardiganed.....'Flashman' and 'Flashman and the Charge'
6 Downright Akbar Khaned.....'Flashman'
7 Utterly Bismarcked.....'Royal Flash' and 'Tiger'
8 Horribly Kabuled.....'Flashman'
9 Categorically Calcuttared.....Flashman in India, 'Mountain' and 'Great Game'
10 Practically Ranavolonaed.....'Flashman's Lady'
11 Seriously Custered.....'Flashman and the Redskins'
12 Excessively Elspethified.....'Flashman' etc
13 Absolutely ignatieffiflicated....'Flashman at the Charge'

[Caravan Ray]

Anyone else out there a fan of Flash Harry?

There's a new book out too: 'Flashman on the March'.
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New book! Wonderful! - Surely GMF must be about 100 now? Whatever - I hope he keeps going.

I still haven't read the last one that came out yet - but I've read all the others.

I'm desperately hoping we will hear of Harry's adventures on the Australian goldfields in the 1850's - which have been hinted at once or twice in the other books