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The story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of Tom Brown's Schooldays, after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. This is the first of George Macdonald Fraser's hilarious satires starring Harry Paget Flashman.
- Sales Rank: #43863 in Audible
- Published on: 2012-11-20
- Released on: 2012-11-20
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 569 minutes
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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
Flash of Genius
By Ujjwal Dey
It was great fun and embarrassing to read this first book in what I am sure is an impressive series. Why embarrassing, you may ask; well I am an Indian.
Fraser certainly knows how to write a great satirical historical fiction. I have no idea about the Afghan war and for all its worth I would believe Flashman's papers as the truth. Fraser writes it that well. Flashman confesses to being a coward and a scoundrel and impressively is hailed as heroic, brave and loyal. This itself seems to bring truth to his story. It is so fantastical and detailed that one may believe his words by the end of half the novel.
I being from the lot of India's black n***** savages am quite impressed by the perspective of the Englishman - a soldier and a gentleman. His description of that era is accurate in its disgust. The action, in bed and battle, is a very telling account of a foreigner in a hellish land (hell for the Englishman, home for some others).
It starts off with Flashman's disgrace and elimination from school. He has a flash of an idea to take it easy in a cozy regiment. Depending on his dad's fortune he gets the colours and can't help continue being a scoundrel. He is then further disgraced by getting orders to go to India to assist the East India Company. Here the story keeps getting funnier, interesting and irresistible. His adventures in India seem to bring him glory whether he keeps going worse or not. Hailed for learning the native tongue he is rewarded by an assignment to Afghanistan. Poor fellow is a victim of his own success.
Soon the Afghan chapters turn rapidly as you breeze through his adventures with the Gilzais and Ghazis and Kabulis. He turns every misadventure into glory without lifting a finger. It's as if an angel of scoundrels watches over him. Every mistake he makes turns him to be more appreciated by the Afghans and the British alike. The description of the battle, the siege at Kabul, the retreat, the escape from Gul Shah, the Jallalabad fort fiasco and his constant good luck in cowardice is captivating. He keeps getting laurels for what any idiot would get flogged and hanged for. His ease with the natives and British Generals get him into cozy deals where he keeps getting patted and congratulated.
If anything, forget the outrageous humour, you should read the book as if it is a dated James Bond novel. Okay so Bond is brave, but Flashman - he doesn't have to be. Fraser writes out the fiction with great accuracy to dates and events and people involved. It is a fascinating read and insight into the feringhee's vision of Asia.
Other than that the characterisation is beautiful and plot smooth as silk. Elphy Bey, Hudson, Sale and Lady Sale, Akbar Khan, Gul Shah, and so many more great characters with their description as young Flashman speaks it is incredibly delightful. The book seemed to tell too much in too few words cause for all that happens, it takes only 294 pages to tell. I intend to read and collect every book in this series. The ending I thought was rightly tame, with the vile Flashman doubting his own wife after coming back to London 2 years later. It further establishes his character and how he lacks a backbone or honour.
An Indian I am and proud of it, but Flashman is funny as hell and I won't deny it. Fraser is a brilliant writer and could probably lecture history at the best Universities, but here he let's us enjoy an unparalleled satire of the British soldier in India. Also, Indian canteens today would not really sicken a pig, but a European may well stay away from it. Cheers to our health and to that of Flashman.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Flashman is a disgusting coward.
By RGMac
But he tells a good tale. He makes me cringe - he's not a wink and skedaddle coward, who sticks his friends with the bartab or hides in the supply wagon when the shooting starts - he's the kind of coward that will leave men screaming his name as he gallops away, the kind that will get men killed, and then laugh at them for being stupid enough to believe him in the first place. He's THAT sort of coward.
And he's a rapist. Not a slap and tickle "don't...stop...don't stop!" kind of rapist. He's not some over-eager frat boy. He rapes women truly against their will, and then beats them if they cry too loudly.
So, enjoy this for what it is - an amusing historical yarn, but don't be fooled into thinking it's about someone you would like in real life, or in print for that matter. Flashman is a loathesome human being. I've never read a book that caused me to wish the hero caught, convicted, and executed. That's the way I felt - I wanted him exposed and whipped and hanged. So explain to me why I'm eagerly reading the next novel in the series!
"Flashman" is a good time, starring a very bad man.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
All of the People, Some of the Time
By Joseph Ryan
How accurate is the look at our history and culture that Flashman author George MacDonald Fraser presents in this volume? Is it just self-indulgent fiction? Or does it reflect the real world so accurately that our non-fiction mythology doesn't permit us to see ourselves in it?
You don't need to have been in Afghanistan in the 1840s to know the answer -- it's in the book reviews, the bulk of which find "From the Flashman Papers 1839-1842" not depressing but exhilarating and "hilariously funny" (NY Times). The answer appears in the newspapers' news sections as well, as we re-live over and over again the story Fraser tells, sometimes even in Afghanistan!
How tickled the author must be at his impunity from blowback against his verbal savaging of the world around him! And how charming that, while Fraser knew that Flashman would enjoy the same impunity, he gave his fictional character the innocence to be surprised at it.
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