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The Complete McAuslan | 
| Author: George Macdonald Fraser
Publisher: Harper
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 139711
Media: Paperback
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 4.8 x 1.6
ISBN: 0006513719
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780006513711
ASIN: 0006513719
Publication Date: February 7, 2000
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Not really fiction January 19, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I too found these books to be outrageously funny and insightful regarding the life of a postwar highland regiment. Just a note to the previous reviewer, George McDonald Fraser in his autobiography "A light on at the Signpost" mentions that he ran into his old company comander from the McAuslan days at a book signing. His commander loved the books and asked GMF why he labled them fiction? GMF said he mumbled something about lawyers and goes on to tell all of us readers that these books are essentially taken from true envents in his post war service.
GMF passed away in January 08 from cancer- I for one will miss him.
On par with Flashman, and perhaps even better. April 7, 2007
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
The title of this missive is misleading. Comparing Flashman to McAuslin is like comparing Heroditus to Camu. It's senseless. Except that both entertained me greatly (not so much Herotditus). This is the case with this collection.
Because this is a compendia better reviews than this one have doubtlesly been written. At the very least they must be less grammatically fragile (to say nothing of my oafish spelling. But i'm a chemist not a writer!). I'm merely waiting for a bus at a public library, killing time waiting for the bus at a public library criticizing my favorite author.
I owned the three books before this was released. They were not at all easy to find back then before Amazon. I consider it a great inspiration that the public at large will be able to access this incredibly funny, mostly ficticious account of the worlds dirtiest soldier and the regiment of personalities in which he is immortalized.
This is a fantastic collection of short stories to have on hand for times (such as now) when keeping on top of an entire novel is not easy. There is a great deal of informative history along with incredibly entertaining and funny storys. I was not always biased completely in favor of the author. My initial impression of The pyrates was unfavorable and I found Mr American to be a slow, serious, meticulous read that I have only been able to accomplish twice. Candemass Road is written in a language I barely understand, a testament to the authors grip of Tudor speach and accents which in this tome is expressed in the dialect of the highlanders and presumably Cumberland and the borders.
Since my origional copies of these books are ragged tatters it's good to be able to have them all whole and in one place. Without question, within a few years, I will need a new copy because I cannot help but read many of these stories countless times.
On a final, practical note, this book is not dense in both senses of the word. It's a large tome but not heavy, which makes it as excellent a travelling book as the origional three paperbacks.
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