Posted by Mike Dennis on January 20, 2008 at 09:52:22 from 84.64.1.47 user MTD.
In Reply to: Re: FLASHMAN posted by Robert Hill on January 20, 2008 at 23:32:54:
I've always had mixed feelings about the Flashman books (certainly not for children!). The character was that most vile of things - a bully. Then he was taken from a children's book to become the 'hero' of adult books - but still a bully and worse.
I read the first one when it came out, and thought it mildly clever to re-work a character in this way but never read any of the others. The interest and praise that was published when Macdonald Fraser died actually surprised me!