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Among other books, I'm currently reading Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes. I'm a huge fan of the Flashman books by George Macdonald Fraser and I thought it was time to get the full backstory on Flashy, and not just what he reveals in his own books.
Unfortunately, it's rather a slog; it's both preachy and elitist. Preachy without being elitist would have been tedious but forgivable; elitist without being preachy would have been despicable but fun. The combination is both tedious and despicable, alas; this is a total affirmation of the class system. The silver lining is that it makes me appreciate just how subversive Fraser is in the Flashman novels, so it's not a dead loss and I shall persevere.
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