21. Neil Gaiman - Neil Gaiman's Journal: Mostly Mailbag Thanks for your little tribute to george macdonald fraser on your journal. I had a very sad day yesterday when I realised that I was never going to read the http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/01/mostly-mailbag.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=3157916"); @import url(http://www.neilgaiman.com/template_files/ploneCustom.css); @import url(http://www.neilgaiman.com/template_files/ploneColumns.css); You are here: Home Journal Archives RSS Translations Labels Saturday, January 05, 2008 mostly mailbag I'm mostly writing The Graveyard Book right now, and tending to let things like email, answering the phone and keeping up this blog slide. Apologies. I was wondering, though considering the origins of your dog Cabal I might be incorrect in my thought, if you knew of anyone who breeds White German Shepherd Dogs, or Alsatians as you referred to them in your post? My specific inquire is because I am inclined towards a German Shepherd Dog, while my girlfriend would prefer a white dog of some kind. I didn't realize there was a white breed of the dog, nor that they were recognized enough to be bred purposely. In either case, I would be quite glad of your opinion on the matter as an owner of said breed, and if you do happen to have any knowledge as to where to find a Breeder, I would be most thankful. Sincerely

22. George MacDonald Fraser Appreciation - Books - Book Reviews That s how I feel about george macdonald fraser whose tale came to an end on Thursday, after a prolonged struggle with cancer at the age of 82. http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blogcritics/2008/01/george_macdonal.html

23. Powell's Books - PowellsBooks.BLOG - Remembering George MacDonald Fraser I picked up a voice mail this weekend from a distraught friend, Shanghai Bob, telling me that george macdonald fraser had passed away. http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=2790

24. George MacDonald Fraser On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online Also known as george macdonald fraser (edited and arranged), george G. M. fraser is actually two authors george macdonald fraser and george Milne http://www.librarything.com/author/frasergeorgemacdonal

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... add a picture Author: George MacDonald Fraser Also known as: George MacDonald Fraser (edited and arranged) George MacDonald Frase Editor George MacDonald Fraser Feorge Macdonald Fraser ... George McDonald Fraser Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Disambiguation Notice G. M. Fraser is actually two authors George MacDonald Fraser and George Milne Fraser. Do not combine this author. Books by George MacDonald Fraser combine/separate works Flashman; from the Flashman papers 1839-1842 597 copies, 10 reviews 366 copies, 5 reviews Flashman at the charge 312 copies, 3 reviews Flashman in the great game 289 copies, 1 review Flashman's lady 279 copies, 1 review Flash for freedom! 277 copies, 1 review 247 copies, 2 reviews 231 copies, 1 review Flashman and the dragon 223 copies, 1 review 211 copies, 1 review 203 copies, 1 review 202 copies, 1 review The pyrates 154 copies, 2 reviews 110 copies, 2 reviews 85 copies, 3 reviews

25. Ex Libris Archives: George MacDonald Fraser fraser is best known for his Flashman Papers series, which takes place in the middle of the 19th century. The books pretend to be the memoirs of one Harry http://www.wjduquette.com/authors/gmfraser.html

Home Ex Libris Authors : George MacDonald Fraser George MacDonald Fraser back in a flash Have you seen our weblog or our monthly book review? Fraser is best known for his Flashman Papers series, which takes place in the middle of the 19th century. The books pretend to be the memoirs of one Harry Flashman. Flashman was the school bully in a book entitled Tom Brown's School Days that book records that he was expelled from Rugby School for drunkeness. Fraser feigns that he was a real person, and carries his career forward from that time. I'm almost embarassed to recommend these books; Harry Flashman is a bounder, a coward, a cad, a man of nasty habits and no principle except "Harry first!" He joins the British Army, and by lying, cheating, licking boots, and being in the right (or wrong) place every time manages to participate in many of the great events of the 19th century. He was at the Charge of the Light Brigade, and had very insulting things to say about his commanding officers (but not to their faces). He was involved in the Sepoy Mutiny in India. He helped sack the Summer Palace in China. He was at Little Bighorn with General Custer. He was at Harper's Ferry with John Brown. He knew Otto von Bismarck when he was nobody, and regretted it. He was (much against his will) supercargo on a slave ship and brother-in-law to Geronimo. He fought in the American Civil War...on both sides (although that book hasn't been written yet). Fraser embroiders the facts, obviously, but uses footnotes to clue us in on where he's telling the truth and where he's stretching italways maintaining the illusion that he's just the editor of Flashman's memoirs. Some of the volumes in the series are

26. George MacDonald Fraser - Los Angeles Times george macdonald fraser, author of the Flashman series of historical adventure yarns, died Wednesday, his publisher said. He was 82. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-fraser3jan03,0,3541411.story?coll=l

27. Author George MacDonald Fraser Dies | Workbench I ve never heard of the Flashman series of novels by george macdonald fraser, but the description that has accompanied. http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/3304/author-george-macdonald-fraser-dies

@import url("http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/styles.css"); Written by Rogers Cadenhead Home Books Code ... E-Mail Subscriptions Reading List Get My APML Working On SportsFilter Drudge Retort Watching the Watchers Wargames.Com ... RSS Spec Miscellany Bob Kemp Mean Green Lottorobics Technorati Author George MacDonald Fraser Dies I've never heard of the Flashman series of novels by George MacDonald Fraser, but the description that has accompanied his obituary today has my curiosity sparked: He wrote the first novel of the Flashman Papers in 1969 after he quit as assistant editor of the Glasgow Herald The book imagines what happened after Flashman the bully in Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays was expelled from Rugby for drunkenness. Eleven more novels were to follow in the series, during which Flashman the most lily-livered hero in Victorian England - fornicates and brawls his way round the empire, provides Abraham Lincoln with his "you can't fool all the people all the time" quotation, and accidentally starts the charge of the Light Brigade. books link Make a Comment on This Entry Comments The Flashman novels, and pretty much everything Fraser has ever written, are absolutely amazing. Thoroughly entertaining in every way. Flashman goes everywhere, does everything, and meets everybody. They're very well done, a joy to read and reread.

28. Instapundit.com - January 05, 2008. MAX BOOT REMEMBERS george macdonald fraser. UPDATE More here. posted at 0732 AM by Glenn Reynolds http://instapundit.com/archives2/013717.php

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29. Confessions Of An Idiosyncratic Mind: RIP George MacDonald Fraser RIP george macdonald fraser. The creator of Flashman as we know him best Listed below are links to weblogs that reference RIP george macdonald fraser http://www.sarahweinman.com/confessions/2008/01/rip-george-macd.html

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30. Big George Interviews GMF Big george interviews george macdonald fraser on Tuesday 19/10/99 Then 30 years ago george macdonald fraser wrote the first of the series, http://www.biggeorge.co.uk/GMF.htm

Home Composer TV Radio ... E-Mail Big George interviews George MacDonald Fraser on Tuesday 19/10/99 The interview was scheduled to begin at 11.30 am The trouble was, the train I'd caught in good time, arrived 100 yards outside of Euston Station at 10.57 am - but it didn't pull in until quarter past. No time to call the PR girl on her mobile (which was switched off anyway), just straight down to the tube station to wait three minutes for the connecting train to arrive (three northern line minutes equals seven earth minutes). Then change at Tottenham Court Road for the Central Line (along which most of the BBC's principle London buildings are situated) and out at Lancaster Gate to get a cab for the short jaunt to the Harrington Hall Hotel, situated just off Gloucester Place. "Nah mate, the 'arrington 'all 'otel is orf Gloucester Road" the cabbie informed me, which is on the other side of Hyde Park! So, I was already late and in a different borough from the Hotel. But, by the grace of God, blind panic and a nifty cabbie I was only 15 minutes late for my meeting with George MacDonald Fraser We'd met the day before at Hatchards where he was signing copies of the latest packet of the Flashman Papers: Flashman and the Tiger, in Hardback - published by Harper Collins, price £16.99, or ten bob from an Internet site; based in Paraguay (to whom you entrust your credit card details and a true belief in Atlantic postage)

31. George MacDonald Fraser: Writer Whose Tales Of Flashman Changed The Face Of Brit george macdonald fraser Writer whose tales of Flashman changed the face of British historical fiction. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3307561.ece

var contextSectionId = '1164'; var contextName = 'independent_www_news_obituaries'; Skip Links Skip to navigation Skip to primary content Skip to secondary content Skip to tertiary content ... ? CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT Obituaries London Search Query: Go Headlines Marcus Brigstocke see Property Click here... Navigation News UK Home News UK Politics ... Obituaries var articleheadline = "George MacDonald Fraser: Writer whose tales of Flashman changed the face of British historical fiction"; George MacDonald Fraser: Writer whose tales of Flashman changed the face of British historical fiction George MacDonald Fraser, writer and journalist: born Carlisle 2 April 1925; deputy editor, Glasgow Herald 1964-69; FRSL 1998; OBE 1999; married 1949 Kathleen Hetherington (two sons, two daughters); died Strang, Isle of Man 2 January 2008 Print Email Search Search Go Independent.co.uk Web Digg It del.icio.us Facebook Stumbleupon ... What are these? Friday, 4 January 2008 It needed only a few moments exposure to one of his reminiscing public performances to establish that George MacDonald Fraser had led quite a life. His experiences included being held upside down by his heels, while strafed by Japanese sniper fire, as he foraged for water during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War, basking in the admiration of Charlie Chaplin and worrying about whether Burt Lancaster disliked his film scripts. Posterity, on the other hand, will remember him for a single achievement. This was the creation, or rather the re-creation, of Harry Flashman, originally the villain of Thomas Hughes's Victorian morality tale Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), but remodelled, under MacDonald Fraser's expert grasp, into the star of a dozen books that changed the face of British historical fiction.

32. Jules Crittenden » George MacDonald Fraser LONDON (AP) — george macdonald fraser, author of the “Flashman” series of historical adventure yarns, died Wednesday, his publisher said. He was 82. http://www.julescrittenden.com/2008/01/02/george-macdonald-fraser/

Home About Archives Search ... Contact document.write(''); Badgers Forward Queer Eye for the Naked Chick George MacDonald Fraser AP Some Flashy links: Flashman at Rugby; Bullies, Fags and Toadies Flashman on Strumpets and Ploughing Aliases Flashman Macropaedia The Flashman Society Born in Carlisle, northern England in 1925, Fraser served as an infantryman with the British Army in India and Burma during World War II, and in the Middle East after the war. He worked as a journalist in Britain and Canada for more than 20 years before turning to fiction. Your own favorite Flashman quotes, treacheries, acts of brazen cowardice in comments.  Or, scenes like this: They were in a ragged square, back to back on the hilltop, and even as we watched I saw the glitter of bayonets as they levelled their pieces, and a thin volley crashed out across the valley. The Afghans yelled louder than ever and gave back, but then they surged in again, the Khyber knives rising and falling as they tried to hack their way into the square. Another volley, and they gave back yet again, and I saw one of the figures on the summit flourishing a sword as though in defiance. He looked for all the world like a toy soldier, and then I noticed a strange thing; he seemed to be wearing a long red, white and blue weskit beneath his poshteen. I must have said something of this to Hudson, for he shouted out:

33. The Last Testament Of Flashman's Creator: How Britain Has Destroyed Itself | The george macdonald fraser died this week. by george macdonald fraser More by this author » Last updated at 0013am on 5th January 2008 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=5062

34. 'Flashman' Author George McDonald Fraser Dies Aged 82 The novelist george macdonald fraser, author of the Flashman adventure stories, .. Or am I, like george macdonald fraser, just making it up? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947646/posts

Free Republic Home Browse Search ... 2008 Q1 FReepathon. Target: $70,000 Woo hoo!! Less than $5k to go!! Click that "Continue" button below and let's git'er done!! Thank you all very much!! 'Flashman' author George McDonald Fraser dies aged 82 BBC News ^ Posted on 01/03/2008 6:04:17 AM PST by the scotsman The novelist George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman adventure stories, has died aged 82, his publisher has said. The popular books saw womanising anti-hero Sir Harry Flashman, fight his way around the British Empire. MacDonald Fraser, who was appointed an OBE in 1999, also wrote the screenplay for James Bond film Octopussy. The Carlisle-born journalist turned author, who lived on the Isle of Man, had fought cancer for several years. He was married and had three children. MacDonald Fraser served as a soldier in Burma and India during World War II and later rose to be deputy editor of the Glasgow Herald newspaper. He was still working there when the first Flashman book was published in 1969. A further 11 followed, the last in 2005.

35. George MacDonald Fraser, 82; Wrote Sir Harry Flashman Books - Washingtonpost.com george macdonald fraser, whose tales about an unscrupulous Victorian scoundrel, Sir Harry Flashman, chronicled the misadventures of one of the most http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/03/AR2008010304019.

var SA_Message="SACategory=" + 'metro/obituaries'; Hello Change Preferences Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Pets SEARCH: washingtonpost.com Web Search Archives washingtonpost.com Metro Obituaries Latest Entry: Death, Taxes, James Joyce Washington Post staff writers offer a window into the art of obituary writing, the culture of death, and more about the end of the story. Read More What is this New Blog? More From the Obits Section: Search the Archives RSS Feed Submit an Obituary Guest Books George MacDonald Fraser, 82; Wrote Sir Harry Flashman Books George MacDonald Fraser's novelistic device of "discovering" manuscripts fooled some critics. (By Caroline Forbes) Enlarge Photo TOOLBOX Resize Text Save/Share Digg Newsvine del.icio.us Stumble It! ... E-mail This COMMENT Discussion Policy Discussion Policy CLOSE full rules governing commentaries and discussions. You are fully responsible for the content that you post. Who's Blogging Links to this article By Matt Schudel Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 4, 2008; Page B07 George MacDonald Fraser, whose tales about an unscrupulous Victorian scoundrel, Sir Harry Flashman, chronicled the misadventures of one of the most memorable characters of modern British fiction, died Jan. 2 of cancer at his home on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. He was 82. After working for years as a journalist, Mr. Fraser published his first novel about Flashman in 1969, passing it off as the newly discovered memoirs of a 19th-century coward, Lothario and soldier of misfortune. Flashman appeared in a dozen novels over the years, inadvertently landing at the center of almost every major military campaign of the Victorian age, from the Boxer Rebellion in China to the Indian Mutiny, the Charge of the Light Brigade, the siege of Khartoum, the Mexican Revolution and the Battle of Little Big Horn.

36. Petermorwood - George MacDonald Fraser By contrast, The Reavers is fraser riding the same social and political hobbyhorses he laid out in The Light s on at Signpost (reading like a an unfunny http://petermorwood.livejournal.com/18146.html

You are viewing petermorwood 's journal Log in Create a LiveJournal Account Learn more Interest Region FAQ Email IM Info petermorwood - George MacDonald Fraser entries archive friends userinfo petermorwood website PeterMorwood.com userinfo livejournal userinfo archive journal archive George MacDonald Fraser 12:18 am Current Location tapping out an entry mood discontent music And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps - Heavy Horses - Jethro Tull I bought his new book The Reavers last week, along with his Flashman on the March (I really like the new uniform editions), Bill Bryson's Shakespeare and Terry's Making Money (am I right in believing that Moist von Lipwig is another of his great characters?) I got to The Reavers over the Bank Holiday weekend. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. How on earth do I start to criticise a writer with so much more cred than me? Well, like this... The quick in-shop glance through The Reavers that prompted me to buy it suggested that I was looking at another "romp" in the style of his much earlier book, The Pyrates . I really enjoyed (and still enjoy) this one; it's in paperback, and if you like that sort of thing, it's well worth having. At the risk of sounding like the book's own back-cover copy, this is a splendid, sprawling, deliberately anachronistic and very funny take-off on classic swashbuckling and pirate (surprise!) movies and novels, complete with the "Ar-har, lookee now an' belike" dialogue used in Jeffrey Farnol's books, by Robert Newton playing Long John Silver in

37. Flashman Creator Herald Writer George Macdonald Fraser Dies (from The Herald ) The Herald Scotland s Leading Quality Daily Newspaper. http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1938876.0.flashman_creator_hera

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38. Moonbattery: George MacDonald Fraser Grieves For Great Britain British author george macdonald fraser laments the tragic decline of his george macdonald fraser A remnant from the Britain that truly was Great. http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/01/george_macdonal.html

Main January 16, 2008 George MacDonald Fraser Grieves for Great Britain British author George MacDonald Fraser laments the tragic decline of his country into moonbattery: That PC [political correctness] should have become acceptable in Britain is a glaring symptom of the country's decline. No generation has seen their country so altered, so turned upside down, as children like me born in the 20 years between the two world wars. In our adult lives Britain's entire national spirit, its philosophy, values and standards, have changed beyond belief. Probably no country on earth has experienced such a revolution in thought and outlook and behaviour in so short a space. The United Kingdom has begun to look more like a Third World country, shabby, littered, ugly, run down, without purpose or direction, misruled by a typical Third World government, corrupt, incompetent and undemocratic. We still had liberty beyond modern understanding because we had other freedoms, the really important ones, that are denied to the youth of today. We did not know the stifling tyranny of a liberal establishment, determined to impose its views, and beginning to resemble George Orwell's Ministry of Truth.

39. Guardian Unlimited: Arts Blog - Books: George MacDonald Fraser: 1925 - 2008 America never really understood george macdonald fraser s Victorian antihero, Harry Flashman. It s a sure sign he was a true Brit http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/01/george_macdonald_fraser_1925_2.html

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40. ParaPundit: George MacDonald Fraser On Political Correctness Successful British novelist and screenplay writer george macdonald fraser (Flashman, Octopussy, The Three Musketeers) has recently died of cancer at age 82. http://www.parapundit.com/archives/004904.html

ParaPundit Stepping out of the box to look at events. Read More Posts On ParaPundit 2008 January 06 Sunday George MacDonald Fraser On Political Correctness Successful British novelist and screenplay writer George MacDonald Fraser (Flashman, Octopussy, The Three Musketeers) has recently died of cancer at age 82. He wrote a final essay on the evils of political correctness and Fraser argues that the politically correct have taken freedom of speech from themselves and the rest of us. It's the present generation with their permissive society, their anything-goes philosophy, and their generally laid-back, inyerface attitude I feel sorry for. They regard themselves as a completely liberated society when in fact they are less free than any generation since the Middle Ages. Indeed, there may never have been such an enslaved generation, in thrall to hang-ups, taboos, restrictions and oppressions unknown to their ancestors (to say nothing of being neck-deep in debt, thanks to a moneylender's economy). Regarding the moneylender's economy: Indebtedness used to be considered a thing to avoid and minimize. Now liberal politicians argue that the poor and the blacks can't be discriminated against in access to credit. If such discrimination existed it did people a favor and prevented debacles like the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Today the ability to be irresponsible in one's personal economic affairs is better protected than the right to speak one's mind.

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