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Rating: - Audio CD Version

Excellent book of course. I'd just like to add how well it transfers to Audio CD - thorougly enjoyable.

Rating: - The First Flashy Tale

This is the first of the Flashman novels, it begins with the title character being expelled from school for drunken behaviour and follows him as he joins the army and gets sent to India and then Afghanistan. Here Flashy is involved in the disastrous British military retreat from Kabul, yet he somehow manages to come out with flying colours - as ever.

If you've read other Flasman novels before, this is typical of them all. Flashy is up to all his usaul tricks and misdemeanors, whilst still somehow coming out appearing to be a great hero It's as enjoyable as ever and very easy to read but I didn't find it amazingly gripping as I have done with some books.

On the whole I think this book is thoroughly worth reading as are all the Flashman novels that i've read, just don't expect it to blow you away.

Rating: - Flashman and the last laugh

Well who would have thought it, I actually made it to Heaven. They let me in on a technicality, I believe. It seems I passed the test for honesty and truthfulness. All right, only to myself, but that's a lot better than the pious hypocrites back on Earth who praise the Lord on Sundays and blast the Heathen every which way till Fridays.

Not that all is well, mind. The chap who said you go to Hell for the company knew what he was talking about. This place is as full of bores as the Lords before Reform.
Not only bores, but some of my old sparring partners have turned up, or rather, were waiting at the gates for me with heavenly knuckle dusters. Sergeant Hudsen, for one. You'll remember him. He was the brave idiot who killed the four Ghastlies, as I call 'em, back in Afghanistan. And Scud East, though he, of course, has forgiven me.
Oh well, I guess I must make do as usual. At least there are no blasted Bishops.

Rating: - fantastic flashy.........

if youve never heard of old flashy,the luckiest bounder the world has ever known,then buy this book and give it a read. If,like me you get a taste for him,then you will surely devour all twelve books in rapid
sucession and then probably read tom brownes school days if you havent already.
01:FLASHMAN
02:ROYAL FLASH
03:FLASH FOR FREEDOM
04:FLASHMAN AT THE CHARGE
05:FLASHMAN IN THE GREAT GAME
06:FLASHMANS LADY
07:FLASHMAN AND THE REDSKINS
08:FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON
09:FLASHMAN AND THE MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT
10:FLASHMAN AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD
11:FLASHMAN AND THE TIGER
12:FLASHMAN ON THE MARCH

that concludes the flashman series (in the correct order)
happy reading!!!!

Rating: - GMF: RIP

So GMF's dead. Sad to learn that.

But Flashy ain't dead. Far from it. And won't be for a long time either. If he was going to be, he would have been a long time ago.

And as long as there's life in Flashy, there'll be life in GMF.

Pity Tony was too goody-goody to read this sort of book.

GMF, may he rest in peace.

He won't be forgotten
In fact, he's more likely than most
to go up in official esteem
(while he goes down in readership??)
as time rolls on
and the fashion for political correctness fades.

I daresay this happened with the other writers I mentioned.

Compare and contract GMF, Rabelais, Joyce and Burgess. Two of them are consistently readable, the other two are mostly unreadable. Why's that if the basic talent's the same? The Army. The b--y Army, that's why. Fraser and Burgess served in the British Army, nor just National Service, years afterwards as well. They would have learned self-discipline and this must have stayed with them all the way. I doubt Rabelais as a Frenchie would have wanted to serve in the British Army, and Joyce would have been turned down had he offered, which he wouldn't. So thank you, HMF. I mean, GMF. I mean, HMF. One of the many hidden factors behind a famous person's achievement (bet he also had a good native servant girl to look after his daily needs so he had time for all that researching and writing).

As for me, as knows (bit late now) wish I'd stayed longer in the b--y Army instead of mis-spending my youth and whatever else I had to spend. Sigh. As my old Commanding Officer, Col. Bloodbucket, was wont to say, your problem's not talent, Snaithwaite, it's discipline, self-b--y-discipline! Splenetically and tmetically he would interject this with intermittent bursts.

Abso-b--y-lutely!

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