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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great fun as Flashman strikes again!,
By Tom Gillis (Kensington, MD USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Royal Flash (Flashman) (Mass Market Paperback)
What can I say? The second of the Flashman series of books, this is a thoroughly enjoyable romp through Germany and England in the late 1840s. This is not the best of the bunch (I found "Flashman and the Redskins" and "Flashman at the Charge" to be stronger), but great fun, nonetheless (as well as hard to put down). Difficult as it is to believe, there appears to be a greater emphasis on "rogering" here than in the other books.If you've read (and enjoyed) other Flashman books, then you know what to expect: go ahead and read this, you won't be disappointed. If you haven't read "Flashman" yet -- what are you waiting for? This is great fun, you won't be sorry. [If you're really easily offended by bad behavior in novels, then you may want to look elsewhere.] Oh, yes, and there are footnotes, so it must all be true.
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Just the man I want to follow out of danger....,
By A Customer
This review is from: Royal Flash (Flashman) (Mass Market Paperback)
I stumbled upon what looks to be an addictive series of
books following the rise, fall and sidestep of the ne'er do
well 19th Century Englishman named Flashman. A self-
professed coward and rake, he nevertheless finds himself
embroiled in some of the most significant events of his time.
This particular episode is basically Woody Allen meets the
Prisoner of Zenda, with a splash of Lady Chatterly thrown in
for good measure. Whether read for the ribald and entertaining takes on history, or just the humourous escapades, Royal
Flash is time well spent.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Goodnight, Prince Harry...I mean, Prince Carl,
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This review is from: Royal Flash (Flashman) (Mass Market Paperback)
" 'I have every confidence in de Gautet,' says Bismarck. 'With a sabre he can split a fly on the wing.'
I was listening to them appalled; these two monsters calmly discussing the best means of giving me a slashed head. If there is one thing I can't endure, it is pain, and the thought of cold steel slicing into my skull nearly made me swoon." - Flashman commenting on a casual conversation between Otto von Bismarck and Rudi von Starnberg (ROYAL FLASH) Once again, Harry finds himself at the mercy of his tormentors. Having been tricked by a vengeful Lola Montez to travel from England to Munich, the capital of Bavaria, Flashy finds himself the center of a plot by Prussian Count Otto von Bismarck to annex the provinces of Schleswig and Holstein, claimed by both Denmark and Germany, thus unifying a fragmented confederation of German states into what will eventually become modern day Germany. In order to do this, old nemesis Otto forces our cowardly and unwilling anti-hero to assume the identity of Danish Prince Carl Gustav, who bears an uncanny resemblance (sans capital hair and mustaches) to himself. The only things missing to make the disguise perfect are two "schlager" scars on his head. A schlager is a long sword with a large handguard that was used by German university students to inflict fashionable scars on each other's face or head when dueling. Anyway, our lovable rogue assumes the role of the imprisoned prince and through bluff and fear for his life weds the beautiful Irma, Duches of Strackenz, and...well, I won't give the good stuff away. If the plot of this, the second packet of the "Flashman Papers", sounds suspiciously like Anthony Hope's Victorian adventure novel THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, it's because Hope took the idea for his literary romance from Flashy's "real-life experiences." This is a rollicking good adventure and one true Flashmaniacs will enjoy reading again and again. I highly recommend ROYAL FLASH, but suggest readers unfamiliar with the humorously faint-hearted exploits of Harry Flashman, Esq. first read FLASHMAN (Packet # 1 of the "Flashman Papers").
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