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Brosnan in a film based on TSWLM novel? Interesting. What's Tarantino up to?
Why not TOP 2 ;-)?
(That said TB way too high. LALD, TLD and GF all comfortably better.)
Wait, what.... bronze? Ok, I could see why OHMSS might get a higher placing, but FRWL? Don't get me wrong, it is one of the best books, but if I were a betting man, I would have put money on MR getting 1st place.
Film contest OHMSS came in third and for the novel contest MR is the bronze entry.
No reason to complain however.
Just sort of muttering darkly to myself and sulking a bit.
(I would have bet MR will end at #1 or #2 actually ...)
Either a worthy winner, as would have been MR to be fair.
That said, OHMSS is sort of the best of both worlds: it's a tight brilliant thriller and also continues to flesh out Bond's character and take some risks. I think I had it in my top three too. So of the two left, that's the one I'm rooting for. FRWL is very good, I love the atmosphere, particuarly in the SMERSH scenes (they come across as much more frightening than SPECTRE to be fair), but there just isn't enough Bond for my liking and I wasn't a fan of the cliffhanger ending (although that's probably more to do with the nonchalant way it was resolved in DN).
And the results in chronological order / with chronological timeline:
I love all of those.
No real complaints overall. TB way too high and TLD a bit low but as a short story that was always going to be the case.
Congrats to @MajorDSmythe, @TriggerMortis, @Birdleson, @jobo, @PussyNoMore, @peter and my good self for getting the top three - although bizarrely not one of us got the top three in the correct order (although as theres a fag paper between them all thats understandable I guess).
I'm curious on two counts @Gustav_Graves:
1) Where are your votes?
2) Why have you taken to calling TB, OHMSS and YOLT 'Ian Fleming's SPECTRE trilogy'?
The only time I have these books referred to as this was for some special edition that bundled them together some years ago. Its not a phrase anyone uses in everyday parlance to my knowledge and strikes me as the same sort of revisionist garbage that calls Raiders 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark' and Star Wars 'Star Wars Episode 1: A New Hope'.
Christ thats woeful. Its rare the Wizard makes such a shocking error. I can only apologise profusely to everyone.
A big thank you to @Gustav_Graves for putting all this work into something that obviously gave us something to look forward to each day. Good job, sir.