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George Mcdonald Fraser

PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:13 am
by G-Man
Just wondered if anyone has read Fraser's Flashman series. Truly great books. One crossover I always wondered was what would happen if the Coutrneys ever met Flash Harry. Apart from locking up everything female of course and there money of course.

PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 10:19 pm
by Nairobi Zanzibar Bombay
I've read all but one of the Flashman books, the MacAuslan Series, Quartered Safe Out Here, and Mr American.

GMF is Top Shelf. His interweaving of historical facts, and fantastic first person fiction are always inspiring.

I believe one of the characters from Mr American could have run into WS characters, because he was heading to Africa to serve with Selous, who knew Ballantyne.

Re: George Mcdonald Fraser

PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:48 am
by Ramon
At work today, I was caught reading "Shout at the Devil" by an English co-worker. At first I was afraid he would make a fuzz about the fact that I was reading at work, but he just asked: "Is that a Swedish version of Wilbur you're reading?"
I told him No, it's an English. We started talking and he had read a couple of Wilbur's books.

He took up a book called "Flashman at charge" by George MacDonald Fraser, and from what he told me, they really sound interesting. I think I will try to get my hands on them as sson as I'm done with all the Wilbur's.

Re: George Mcdonald Fraser

PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:44 am
by Ramon
Got the first Flashman in the post yesterday. Some 40 pages into it, it looks really promising.