Flashman and the Dragon

As much as I love this series, I have to admit that by book 8, The Flashman Papers have settled down into a very comfortable formula: Flashy agrees to join an adventure in some exotic corner of the globe, the adventure turns out to be something other than what it first appeared (usually due to treac......more

The first half of the book dragged for me, it was the same story all over again, which is one of the joys of the series, but this time seemed pedantic. But man, that ending the last third of the book I couldn't set it down and was cheering for our unscrupulous hero!......more

Yippee. Don't you just love it when you expect to enjoy a book - and you do. I laughed until I all but wet my pants. Go on. You know you want to..........more

Maybe not the best Flashman, but probably the one closest to my heart, content/history-wise, as it is the only story set in East Asia. My only complaint* here is that Fraser breaks this incident (if one of history's bloodiest wars can be called an "incident") into two almost separate stories**- Flas......more