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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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Post by alpha128 on May 2, 2024 3:47:03 GMT
I've been continually reading James Bond books for a year or more. I read Fleming's first seven (through Goldfinger) quite sometime ago, and then stopped for an extended period. I then resumed with For Your Eyes Only and read through the rest of Fleming. During my long Fleming gap, I read Raymond Benson's Never Dream of Dying. After finishing Fleming, I went straight into Kingsley Amis' Colonel Sun, the first non-Fleming Bond novel - I thought it was excellent. After that, I read John Pearson's James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 which I found merely OK. To me, the most interesting part of the book was the ending, namely Irma Bunt is still alive and threatening the world with mutated desert rats. So the book ends with Bond going off on an adventure we'll never read. I am now reading the John Gardner books. I recently finished Licence Renewed, which I really enjoyed, and just started For Special Services. Since the latter deals with the return of SPECTRE, I wonder if there'll be any mention of Pearson's cliffhanger (I doubt it). I own the Gardner books through Brokenclaw. I've heard that the quality dips beyond that point, so perhaps it's a good thing it's the last one I bought.
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Post by alpha128 on May 13, 2024 16:21:14 GMT
I am now reading the John Gardner books. I recently finished Licence Renewed, which I really enjoyed, and just started For Special Services. Since the latter deals with the return of SPECTRE, I wonder if there'll be any mention of Pearson's cliffhanger (I doubt it). I have now completed For Special Services and enjoyed it. As I suspected, Pearson's cliffhanger was not followed up on. In fact, Pearson's entire fictional biography seems to be discarded. Early in For Special Services, Bond mentions Gala Brand, the lead female character from Fleming's Moonraker novel. In his book, Pearson decanonized Moonraker - stating that while the other Fleming novels were more or less accurate, Moonraker was a complete work of fiction. Gardner, along with Glidrose Publications Limited (now Ian Fleming Publications), reversed course on this noting that, "Gala Brand, now Mrs. Vivian, with three kids and a nice house in Richmond - they exchanged Christmas cards but he had never seen her again after the Drax business". Next up for me, Gardner's third Bond novel "Icebreaker". P.S. Readers of the James Bond novels may enjoy the following YouTube playlist of Bond novel reviews: James Bond Novel Reviews by Calvin Dyson - YouTube
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