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Undead Hippo posted:I always felt like the tone of the first book was very different from the rest of the series. More of a satire, where the rest of the series(and especially the second book) tended towards farce. It also had much darker moments throughout, the first of which with Judy we've already seen. Flashman is a real scumbag in this one, and not at all a lovable one. I think that is a fair point but as a reader who has read them all at least a few times I think that suits the more adventurous stories later. Particularly Royal Flash with it's open Zenda pastiche I was quite young when I read them and they can be read as straight adventures or as a primer for basically every politically or socially important thing that happened in the British Empire or the US over about 60 years. I know this first one is where i first heard about the chartist riots for example. Or John Brown in a later book (well that and the CYOA Civil War Secret Agent).
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as it's a pastiche of Prisoner of Zenda it's one of the more filmable ones.
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Beefeater1980 posted:What carries the series is the action scenes, which Fraser writes very well, the amusing character sketches, and watching Flashman duck and weave his way out of all the trouble his vices get him into. If it was a constant parade of shittiness with no let-up then it would probably be unreadable, I agree. The fact that Flashman gets a lot of personal come-uppance as well helps too. what i've always loved is the way gmf manages to squeeze flashman into the background and seedy backroom of history. the period is one of grand adventure and geo politics and his adventures are often stolen from real people.
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