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Loading... The Reaversby George MacDonald Fraser
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Fraser is best known for his series of Flashman novels. But this one is a silly stand-alone. In fact, the first sentence of his foreward to the book is: "This book is nonsense." Which means that basically, he just wrote it for fun and he's not hewing closely to the facts of the time period he set it in (Elizabethan England, somewhere around 159-, Fraser is willfully vague). The characters frequently spout anachronisms and it's really just all done for laughs. If you're familiar with Fraser's book The Pyrates, it's close to that style. I loved The Pyrates, and this one was diverting enough but not as easy to follow. Fraser renders his characters' dialogue into their various accents (Scottish, Cockney, American Deep South, Spanish, etc.) and that tends to slow the reading speed doon abit. If ya nae ken whut ahm tockin' aboot, yer in fer a bit o' a slog. Oh, also, a passing familiarity with Cockney rhyming slang also helped in a few spots. To wit: china (plate) = mate, butcher's (hook) = look. (  ) woodge | Nov 20, 2009 |  By and large, this is the worst book I've ever bothered to finish. And I think I only bothered to finish it because it kept promising that it might turn into something good. It never did. If you're looking for something genuinely humorous and that manages to also work in some modern day satire, I would suggest anything by Terry Pratchett. Leave this book on the shelf. (  ) yaniboy | Jul 27, 2009 | A humorous adventure full of unrequited love, wizards, magic, and anachronisms. A great afternoon read that will have you chuckling at the mischievous writings of Fraser. (  ) shmuffin | Apr 28, 2009 | Fluff. But funny, deeply silly fluff. Sort of The Pyrates! crossed with the Candlemass Road. ( ) munchkinstein | Oct 23, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0307268101, Hardcover)After twelve gloriously scandalous Flashman novels, the incomparable George MacDonald Fraser gives us a totally hilarious tale of derring-do from a different era. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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