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I always remember him saying that people in real life react so exactly like the most hackneyed of Hollywood films that they're completely unwriteable, like the friend who got a bullet in the shoulder and rolled over shouting, "They got me, the rats! They got me!"
That said, I could never get into Flashman. I recognise that they're absolutely gripping yarns, and very well-researched, but the main character is too deliberately unlikeable for me to enjoy spending time with him. I wish GMF had written more books like McAuslan.
I've only read the first Flashman book but it was his unlikeability that made it so enjoyable. The character's utter lack of apology for being so unabashedly self-serving provides a lot of fun.
The first book is where he's the most unlikeable, the latter books increasingly make him trend towards being more of a rascally anti-hero rather than the complete shit he is in the first one. (He's still pretty monstrous in the few following ones but the process has already started.)
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