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First of the year...
Jan. 3rd, 2008 08:59 pmI spent yesterday working, deliberately didn't look even once at the Net, and today Diane tells me that this happened:
George MacDonald Fraser's Times obituary.
George MacDonald Fraser's Telegraph obituary.
George MacDonald Fraser's The Independent obituary.
So there'll be no more Flashman, and his last book (correcting Neil Gaiman here, who thought it was The Light's On At Signpost) was only that wretched nonsense The Reavers. I don't take back one word of what I posted last October, so though I might read a Flashman novel later on, right now I'm going to pull down The Pyrates. That's how entertaining anachronistic romps should be done.
Rest easy, Mr Fraser. You've become part of the history you wrote about so well.
George MacDonald Fraser's Times obituary.
George MacDonald Fraser's Telegraph obituary.
George MacDonald Fraser's The Independent obituary.
So there'll be no more Flashman, and his last book (correcting Neil Gaiman here, who thought it was The Light's On At Signpost) was only that wretched nonsense The Reavers. I don't take back one word of what I posted last October, so though I might read a Flashman novel later on, right now I'm going to pull down The Pyrates. That's how entertaining anachronistic romps should be done.
Rest easy, Mr Fraser. You've become part of the history you wrote about so well.
