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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2022 7:06:16 GMT
007 in New York
Well this is an odd one. Bond is sent to NYC to inform a former British employee that her boyfriend is a Soviet spy. But, the meeting is not the focus of the story. Instead this is basically a six page rambling (and often incomprehensible) opinion on New York in the 1960s. Bond rants about American food and expresses his desire to find a porno theater, among other things. Fleming even sticks in an actual step by step recipe for James Bond Scrambled Eggs! Not much of a story here, but I’m totally making those eggs the next time I do a Bond movie marathon.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2022 20:23:13 GMT
Glad I bought these when I did- they’re suddenly all out of print! I’ll have to skip Golden Gun, Spy Who Loved, and Your Eyes though. I never got around to buying them.
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Sept 16, 2022 20:40:07 GMT
Glad I bought these when I did- they’re suddenly all out of print! I’ll have to skip Golden Gun... That's a shame... The Man With the Golden Gun is the gritty coda to the three-book "Blofeld Trilogy" ( Thunderball, OHMSS, You Only Live Twice).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2022 21:21:21 GMT
Glad I bought these when I did- they’re suddenly all out of print! I’ll have to skip Golden Gun... That's a shame... The Man With the Golden Gun is the gritty coda to the three-book "Blofeld Trilogy" ( Thunderball, OHMSS, You Only Live Twice). I was on the fence about it because I’ve heard that when Fleming died it was essentially still a first draft.
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Sept 17, 2022 2:00:10 GMT
That's a shame... The Man With the Golden Gun is the gritty coda to the three-book "Blofeld Trilogy" ( Thunderball, OHMSS, You Only Live Twice). I was on the fence about it because I’ve heard that when Fleming died it was essentially still a first draft. It was... but it's still good.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2022 2:15:28 GMT
I was on the fence about it because I’ve heard that when Fleming died it was essentially still a first draft. It was... but it's still good. Oh? Hmmm. Maybe I could still find it somewhere. Does it provide any closure for the character? It’s not really an ending to the series, is it?
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Sept 17, 2022 4:01:41 GMT
It was... but it's still good. Oh? Hmmm. Maybe I could still find it somewhere. Does it provide any closure for the character? It’s not really an ending to the series, is it? Not a "definitive" ending, but there is closure of a sort... (Also, You Only Live Twice ends on something of a cliffhanger, so Golden Gun provides the answer to "What happened to Bond?"
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Post by jackspicer on Sept 17, 2022 18:09:52 GMT
Here you go, buddy. www.epubbooks.com/book/1824-moonrakerNo, I haven't read them, and I've only watched a handful of the movies. I felt like Skyfall was the only one that was understandable.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2022 6:14:35 GMT
Goldfinger
The movie is as iconic as it gets and easily my favorite of the franchise. So I was surprised when the novel ended up being my second least favorite next to DAF. The movie makes a lot of little changes and a few big ones, all of them add up to a vast improvement. Had I been a producer in the 1960s I would never have picked this one for adaptation over Moonraker or LALD. It goes back and forth between being an exciting Bond story and a somewhat meandering one. I was quite surprised how small a role Pussy Galore has in here. Tilly Masterson is the main female lead here and Pussy is basically only there to confirm that she’s a lesbian.
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