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I am pecking away at "Flashman and the Redskins."
The style has something I've noticed before.
It's hard to read, and I struggle then something clicks and I suddenly can parse the flow.
Then I put it down and can't read it again.
It's like I can only speak the dialect easily if I use it often, except with reading.
This is definitely a book from another time.
Racial, ethnic and gender slurs abound in Harry Flashman's language.
I'm a little surprised the cancel culture warriors haven't come for him.
Like you said, it's hard to read so the typical leftists can't comprehend it.
ReplyDeleteOne curious truth is that most libtards loudly espouse the belief that they are always the intellectually and morally superior group, but yet when you look at liberals in general, such a large percentage of them just don't live up to that.
DeleteThe reason for him not being targeted by the cancel culture cancer is that maybe he just isn't high enough profile these days to be on their radar and the fact that he's been dead since 2008 makes there not be a big upside to destroying him.
Of course being long dead hasn't helped Samuel Clemens from being a lightning rod for cancel culture attacks, but Mark Twain's work was staple for modern literary study for years, so of course it had to go.
-swj
While i found George Macdonald Fraser refreshing and different when i first read them in the 1980's , they are a little dated now. Good news though, Robert Brightwell has written a Prequel series following Thomas Flashman [ Harry Flashmans uncle ] and Paul Moore has penned a Sequel series following Harry Flashman [ grandson ] and they are both very enjoyable historical fiction. I particularly learned a lot about the Rudolf Hess defection in the Paul Moore series.... great summer reading!! ... Jim
DeleteBasically, this is supposed to be Flashman himself, writing in the language he thinks in---which is early- to mid-19th century upper-class British English. I can follow it without trouble, but I was all but raised on classical English literature. I don't even have trouble with Lovecraft.
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