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Praise for ‘The Reavers’
‘The Reavers is farcical, nonesensical and great fun…entertaining stuff and acutely observed even if it is utterly bonkers.’
‘…a welcome reminder of a prolific, playful talent…extremely silly, but it is silliness of a superior kind.’
Seven
‘emphatically superior nonsense’
Sunday Telegraph
‘Flippant anachronisms abound and relentless gags recall the ribald spirit of Blackadder more than the author’s saucy Flashman adventuresin this uproarious spoof’
Financial Times
‘wonderfully silly’
The Times
'A welcome reminder of a prolific, playful talent'
Seven
‘Entertaining stuff and actutely observed’
News of the World
Praise for ‘Flashman on the March’:
'There is a little of Flashman in all of us – but not enough' Evening Standard
'The Flashman Papers do what all great sagas do – winning new admirers along the way but never, ever betraying old ones. It is an immense achievement' Sunday Telegraph
'In our crass, humourless, anaemic, politically correct age, there could be no better tonic or treat than the outrageous Flashy's bold descriptions of action in battle or bedroom. To relish George MacDonald Fraser is to rediscover the joy of reading' Daily Telegraph
‘Everything we expect from a Flashman adventure is here: lechery, double-crossing, real people, the epic poltroonery from which Flashman emerges as saviour of the hour…my one complaint about the series – surely the great mock-historical romp of the past half-century – is that MacDonald Fraser does not add to it often enough' Mail on Sunday
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Praise for Flashman on the March:
'There is a little of Flashman in all of us – but not enough.' Evening Standard
'The Flashman Papers do what all great sagas do – winning new admirers along the way but never, ever betraying old ones. It is an immense achievement.' Sunday Telegraph
'In our crass, humourless, anaemic, politically correct age, there could be no better tonic or treat than the outrageous Flashy's bold descriptions of action in battle or bedroom. To relish George MacDonald Fraser is to rediscover the joy of reading.' Daily Telegraph
‘Everything we expect from a Flashman adventure is here: lechery, double-crossing, real people, the epic poltroonery from which Flashman emerges as saviour of the hour…my one complaint about the series – surely the great mock-historical romp of the past half-century – is that MacDonald Fraser does not add to it often enough.' Mail on Sunday
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However, I enjoyed it mightily.
I have read almost all his previous novels, and I am a huge fan of the Flashman series. And this is why I thought most people wouldn't like this one - it isn't historically accurate at all. It's more in the style of Robert Rankin. It is a sixteenth century novel full of twenty-first century references (and very modern and political ones at that - I don't think a lot of them will be understood ten years from now). But I did find it very amusing, and very clever. It does sit very much at odds with his other works, though.
Personally, I'd tell everyone to give it a read. It is funny and witty and enjoyable. Just don't go thinking it will be anything like his other books! Once you get past that way of thinking it does help.
Ironically, in the introduction GMF justifies this re-write of "The Candlemass Road" on the grounds that that book has faded into the past. In fact Candlemass could still be read and enjoyed in a hundred years when the jokes in "The Reavers" have become as obscure as those in Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost."
RIP GMF 2 January 2008
Loved The Pyrates,
Loved The Reavers as well,
GMF can do no wrong for me, each book funnier than the last.
What a disappointment. Read more
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