books by George MacDonald (harrowing quartered redskins)

books by George MacDonald

books:

Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

14 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Skyhorse Publishing, 2007

Great read, great history
If you have any interest in WWII (or any military conflict), buy this book. It is one of the best, a great read, and great history. One of George MacDonald Fraser's finest works.

Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel (Flashman)

21 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1989

An Ambivalence Wrapped Up in an Ambiguity
Midway through his memoirs of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, Harry Flashman ruminates: What beats me is the way people take it to heart -- what do they expect in war? It ain't conducted by missionaries, or chaps in Liberal clubs, snug and secure. But what amuses me most is the fashionable way views change -- why, for years after Cawnpore, any vengeance wreaked on an Indian, mutineer or not, was ...

Flashman at the Charge (Flashman)

27 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1986

Flash is Getting Soft!
After reading "Flash for Freedom," with its nauseous blatant racism expressed through Flashman's perspective, I began to wonder why I was drawn to the series. Even in the Spanish picaresque novels, rogues tend to mature in their skullduggery. But I already had "Flashman at the Charge" in the exercycle pile, so I plunged in. I'm glad I did. This is the most successful episode yet, in terms of ...

Royal Flash (Flashman)

29 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1985

You KNOW you want it! So buy it!
One bloody narrow escape after another! Flashman, Aubrey/Maturin, Jack Bauer! It must be atavistic, the thrill I feel from them, hormonally encrypted by my neanderthal evolution! Plus Flashman comes with 'entremeses' of lechery between the entrees of fish and foul! If you are so much as considering RoyaL Flash, you should - you must - have read the first of the series, titled simply Flashman. ...

Flashman on the March (Flashman Papers)

35 reviews
George Macdonald Fraser

Anchor, 2006

Another great Flashman book
For those of us to whom his books brought such pleasure, "Flashman on the March" will always have an air of sadness about it, as it was the last Flashman book the late George MacDonald Fraser ever wrote. As with a prematurely deceased friend, we Flashman fans lament the adventures we'll never experience with our dear departed Flashman: the U.S. Civil War, the Mexican fiasco, Rorke's Drift, et al. ...

Flashman and the Tiger

42 reviews
George Macdonald Fraser

Anchor, 2001

You'd think Flash would have to repeat himself
Fraser squeezed another Flashy episode into that brief human life and me, I'm glad. So will you be also. The Flashman Papers continue to offer up new episodes in this series. In this one Flashy's reflections are more more mature, but his cynicism remains intact, his wisdom a human one recognizing our weaknesses as humans, none more than his own.

Flashman's Lady (Flashman)

16 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1988

Courage! and deal the cards.
After my third episode of Flashy's exploits, I slurp them down as fast as I can; they increase in audacity and fascinating historical tidbits. How could a poltroon outwit the great Bismark, outmanoeuver Pirates, be seen at the scene of pivotal political events?? Flashman empowers me to run boring errands, endure dull political correctness and other mealy-mouthed characteristics of our era. My ...

Flash for Freedom! (Flashman)

22 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1985

Filthy Groveling Narcissistic Swine!
Hard to take! Bundle 3 of the Flashman Papers exposes Harry at his nauseating worst - smug and cowardly, vile in thought and deed, and appallingly callous in his racism. Racism is a touchy subject for me. If Harry or his creator had been physically accessible, there might never have been a volume 4. Only the perception that Flashman wasn't Fraser, but just a 'fallible narrator' in literary terms, ...

Flashman: A Novel (Flashman)

93 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1984

Excellent read
Only recently discovered GMF. Flashman is a great read. Hard to put down. I look forward to reading more Flashman adventures.

Flashman and the Dragon (Flashman)

20 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1987

Dancing Truth's Tightrope
After reading Hornblower and Bolitho, I thought I would give the army a try. Fraser is an excellent teller of historical fiction with a touch of Jeffery Deaver for fun! Quite graphic in his portrayls of the characters and events, Flashman delves into the whys and not just the hows. Yes, Flashman is a roque, but if given the chance - wouldn't we all?

The Princess and the Goblin (Illustrated Junior Library)

42 reviews
George MacDonald

Grosset & Dunlap, 1985

One of the best fantasy books period
So it's written for children but I could hardly tell the difference. The simplicity of the storytelling made it all the more appealing and the veins of courage, humilty, and human frailty running through it were impressive and awe inspiring. Like I said it's simple but don't let that word fool you. It's brilliantly written and encourages the reader to look at his or her own character. "As water ...

Flashman and the Mountain of Light (Flashman)

12 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1992

"There Were Some Damned Odd Fellows About in the Earlies"
In George MacDonald Fraser's 'Flashman and the Mountain of Light', our man Flashy sees Queen Vicky holding the Koh-I-Noor diamond and flashes back to India - more precisely, the Punjab where he arrives just in time for the first Anglo Sikh War (1845-46), not to suggest that Flashman had a hand in the war or anything. The reader meets some of the most colorful figures ever to occupy the ...

The Light Princess and Other Fairy Tales (Dover Value Editions)

11 reviews
George MacDonald

Dover Publications, 2006

The Complete Fairy Tales
This book gives a great perspective into fairy tales and how they were told during the eighteen hundreds. It is a fun, scary, spriritual reflection of that age.

Treasure Island

259 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Harvill Press, 2000

Tense, Readable Adventure
This is a solid condensed version of the classic search for buried treasure in the late 1700's. Author Robert Louis Stevenson draws readers in early as the Captain arrives at the Benbow Inn in Britain, focused on incoming ships, and warning young Jim Hawkins of one-legged visitors. The story picks up as Billy Bones arrives, bringing danger and discovery of the treasure map, a discovery that ...

Flashman and the Redskins (Flashman)

21 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1983

Flashy reluctantly helps tame the Wild West.
"I never did learn to speak Apache properly. Mind you, it ain't easy, mainly because the red brutes seldom stand still long enough - and if you've any sense, you don't either, or you're liable to find yourself studying their system of vowel pronunciation while hanging head-down over a slow fire or riding for dear life across the Jornada del Muerto with them howling at your heels and trying to ...

The Complete McAuslan

2 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Harper, 2000

On par with Flashman, and perhaps even better.
The title of this missive is misleading. Comparing Flashman to McAuslin is like comparing Heroditus to Camu. It's senseless. Except that both entertained me greatly (not so much Herotditus). This is the case with this collection. Because this is a compendia better reviews than this one have doubtlesly been written. At the very least they must be less grammatically fragile (to say nothing of my ...

The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers

8 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Skyhorse Publishing, 2008

Fascinating book for me as a Reiver descendant.
I was born in Carlisle, England. The second big town of the border area other than Berwick. My father is from Longtown, Cumbria which is right next to the debateable land and I have the last name of Crozier. This book was like reading about my own history and explained a whole lot of things about my home town and the people I grew up with. Just in my neighborhood, there were Armstrongs, Taylors, ...

The Pyrates: A Swashbuckling Comic Novel by the Creator of Flashman

24 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

The Lyons Press, 2003

The funniest book you'll read in years
Imagine the fantasy and imagination of The Princess Bride; take the joie de vivre of Pirates Of The Caribbean; mix it a little with the eccentricity of Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (leaving out the tackier parts of the humour) and then take each of your favourite pirate stereotypes (bad guys, good guys, black spots, needlessly evil Spaniards, sword fights and derring-do) and turn it into ...

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord

20 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1996

Flashman Does it again!
Wonderful story as usual. A 19th Century Forest Gump (a little brighter but more cowardly and more lecherous) finds himself at the center of history's most important events hobnobbing with the memorable charcters and real life men of greatness. Don't miss it!

The Reavers

4 reviews
George Macdonald Fraser

Knopf, 2008

Funny, but not his best
The Reavers is very much in the style of Fraser's "Pyrates" but, in my opinion, not as successful. For those of you more familiar with the Flashman books, both The Reavers and Pyrates are more over-the-top, more fantastic, and the narrator is constantly interjecting with a wink and a nudge. Pyrates is probably my all-time favorite Fraser novel-- but The Reavers felt more like a rehash. Even ...