Damn your eyes man - It is time for Flashman!

[Moggy]

The Wire

 

[Badgers]

The Wire

Is it set around the Napoleonic Wars?
Is a gentlemen's honour a constant in many of the story lines?




I am up for The Wire but I need the 'time travel effect' at least for a few hours viewing each week.

 

[Moggy]

I am up for The Wire but I need the 'time travel effect' at least for a few hours viewing each week.

Can't you just watch The Wire while wearing period dress and quaffing vast amounts of hallucinagens?

(If you haven't got a copy of the first series already it's on my portable HD if you want it )

 

[hendo]

I'm very much enjoying the Flashman series; on the whole they're well written with a good grasp of the period and a strong narrative. The stupidity and slaughter of war is also very well illustrated.
They're not serious books, but the reader ends up learning a bit about Victorian Britain and the Empire.

Flashman is a villain, but by God sir, a very readable one.

 

[Badgers]

Can't you just watch The Wire while wearing period dress and quaffing vast amounts of hallucinagens?

Pretty standard night for us mate

(If you haven't got a copy of the first series already it's on my portable HD if you want it )

I will nick that mate

 

[Badgers]

I'm very much enjoying the Flashman series; on the whole they're well written with a good grasp of the period and a strong narrative. The stupidity and slaughter of war is also very well illustrated.
They're not serious books, but the reader ends up learning a bit about Victorian Britain and the Empire.

Flashman is a villain, but by God sir, a very readable one.

Have you made it to Flashman's Lady yet?

 

[Dhimmi]

There's a bit in one of the US slavery-related novels (can't remember the title) where some escapees from the Confederacy look at a Union flag (it's only the Union Jack when it's flown at sea, remember) and say 'there's the flag of liberty'.

Yes but isn't that exactly the kind of thin a bastard Englsih Victorian might say?

I will say that Prof Tonkin told me that Maurice Bloch told her that the Flashman set in 19th century Madagascar is historically accurate.

That was a fascinating one, and funny too as Flashman thought he was being so smart in escaping to shore only to find he became the personal property of Queen Ranavalona in doing so.

As for beard stroking, I have genuinely no idea what I was talking about there - a very rare occurrence where I'm concerned, but it had to happen sometime.

If you have a beard you must eventually stroke it... as Devo said "If a beard comes along, you must stroke it."

 

[Badgers]

Alec Jeffreys just chose the Flashman books on Desert Island Discs

 

[Badgers]

RIP George MacDonald Fraser

 

[Dhimmi]

Hmmm here's me thinking Hurrah the flashy thread is revived and then boohoo the actuality strikes deep. Great loss, if you don't own a flashman book go buy one.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

For those of you who have not read Flashman then I highly recommend the books.

I am a fan of military period dramas like Sharpe and Hornblower but the world is lacking a quality dramatisation of The Flashman Papers!

Why the hell are TV channels churning out more reality shows and yet this golden opportunity is not being grabbed with both hands. Perhaps the author is resisting the production of his work, perhaps production companies have become lazy?

Huzzah

I think they already made a movie with Malcolm McDowell as Flashman. It wasn't very good.

 

[Dhimmi]

I think they already made a movie with Malcolm McDowell as Flashman. It wasn't very good.

Quite hence our desire for a quality dramatisation.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Quite hence our desire for a quality dramatisation.

It was directed by Rchard Lester.

 

[tommers]

RIP George MacDonald Fraser

ah. bollocks.

 

[Dhimmi]

It was directed by Rchard Lester.

Aye and it's pretty awful, the Musketeer movies capture the spirit much better.

 

[Badgers]

Need to pick up a copy of 'Light's On at Signpost' as I have not read it yet.

 

[bluestreak]

I've never read any of this, it seems like something I might like but I share Brainaddict's taste in writing style. I'll try and pick one up in a charity shop sometime and see what I think.

 

[Brainaddict]

I've never read any of this, it seems like something I might like but I share Brainaddict's taste in writing style. I'll try and pick one up in a charity shop sometime and see what I think.

Have you not joined Brixton library yet? I got my sample of bad Flashman writing from there.

 

[Badgers]

We have a bloke working in our office one day a week who is actually called 'Harold Flash'

He sighed with a weary look of 'never heard that before' when I said HUZZAH as we were introduced.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

I wonder if the US Civil War volume he was clearly planning for a very long time (references go back to some fairly early books in the series) will ever come out?

 

[Idris2002]

I wonder if the US Civil War volume he was clearly planning for a very long time (references go back to some fairly early books in the series) will ever come out?

I suppose they could do a lash-up, with some writer-for-hire working the notes up into a finished novel, but it wouldn't be the same would it?

Apparently, when the first one was published a lot of people thought it was the real thing. . .

 

[Badgers]

Channel 5 thought about it but decided that a remake of Minder starring Shane Ritchie would be better.

 

[LindaR]

Am I the only one that actually enjoyed the Malcolm McDowall film? OK, Britt Ekland couldn't act if her life depended on it, but those around her made up for it. And yes, the books are better, but that is generally the case in life...

 

[Voley]

Didn't Flashman roast Tom Brown to near death for burning his toast or something?

Ahh, those were the halcyon days of bullying. None of this namby-pamby 'cyber-bullying' nonsense. Burn my toast and get roasted to death. Straight to the point. I wholeheartedly approve.

 

[maximilian ping]

Don't get me wrong the books are great fun, but the early ones are highly misogynistic (this declines with later versions) and they're also clearly clever apologetics for British Imperialism.

Now, who here wants to stroke my beard?

loser!
rape and racism was all part of it. maybe they should have had him growing mung beans instead?

 

[Badgers]

Huzzah!!!

Episode 1 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lh5th
Episode 2 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ljppj

 

[camouflage]

For those of you who have not read Flashman then I highly recommend the books.

I am a fan of military period dramas like Sharpe and Hornblower but the world is lacking a quality dramatisation of The Flashman Papers!

Why the hell are TV channels churning out more reality shows and yet this golden opportunity is not being grabbed with both hands. Perhaps the author is resisting the production of his work, perhaps production companies have become lazy?

Huzzah

I was really tempted to try Flashman but by the synopsis I couldn't quite figure if it would be abit like reading Carry On Up the Kyber or something, and I wouldn't want to get involved in anything like that.

Is it like, proper stories done with humour, and maybe even an informative insight into that time and space of the British Empire and the people affected by it's actions or just lots of random silly bollocks about shagging?

 

[Idris2002]

Is it like, proper stories done with humour, and maybe even an informative insight into that time and space of the British Empire and the people affected by it's actions or just lots of random silly bollocks about shagging?

It's the former not the latter. Informative insights there a-plenty, albeit from the mouth of a died-in-the-wool British Imperialist.

 

[camouflage]

Heh

Think I my give it a go.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's the former not the latter. Informative insights there a-plenty, albeit from the mouth of a died-in-the-wool British Imperialist.

dyed in the wool, i think you'll find.