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How are you finding it? Good reading so far?
1. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming (1953)
I re-read LALD fairly recently too. And during the middle section (Bond breaking into the aquirium) LTK did come to mind. One thing I realised when reading the books was that Dalts tries to copy the literary Bond's mannerism's, facial expressions.
Half way through GF. I'm not particularly interested in golf or gold, but Ian Fleming's genius is his descriptive powers.
like the gritty no-nonsense feel of the TLD short, really has an almost Le Carre approach to the cold war
Yeah so far it's holding my interest, unlike "Icebreaker" which I started and gave up on twice!
That's why I liked Daltons both stabs at Bond, he really nailed the literary Bond imo. While other Bonds might've shown glimpses, Dalton exhibited all the right qualities in all the right quantities.
LALD finished, i'm ready to begin Monraker tomorrow.
1. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming (1953)
2. Live And Let Die - Ian Fleming (1954)
Moonraker is my personal favorite. Diamonds Are Forever is boring me.
I'll read YOLT soon, but I have the new Jack Reacher book and I want to read that first, plus I want to finish the new assassins creed game, along with work and other stuff I need to sort out (as well as going to the pub almost every day), it might take me a while before I start it.
Ah I have a busy life.
AND Colonal Sun.
Hope you like it. I got it a few months back, and I have to say that I thought it was bad. But then again I can't get on with Gardner's Bond books. There is some very un-Bondlike dialogue he gives our hero and the attack on Felix is just beyond belief. To me Gardner falls down because he is trying to please both camps, the book reader and the filmgoer, and it just doesn't work.
I had read Licence Renewed and For Special Services when they first came out and had the same feelings, but thought I'd give the novelisation of LTK a go as it is a favourite film. Wished I hadn't now!
They brought plot elements of "The Hildebrand Rarity" and "Live and Let Die" into LTK. So why bother with the novelization?
What a wonderful piece of nonsense. For me Goldfinger is the most laid back and expansive of Ian Fleming's novels. Paradoxically the beginning of novel, when Bond gets back from Cuba, when Bond gets captured in Switzerland, prior to the "Pressure Room" and the showdown on the airplane at the end, is graphic and very morose.
P.s Billy Ring, does he remind anyone of The Joker? When did The Joker first appear in the Batman comics I wonder?
Batman #1, Spring of 1940. They almost killed him off in the issue, and what a mistake that would've been, eh?
Fleming well worth reading IMHO .
Couldn't agree more Mrcoggins! Kingsley Amis' "Colonel Sun" is right up there with Fleming, by far the best Bond continuation. From the very first chapter I was hooked, and I genuinely believe it is the legitimate sequel to "The Man with the Golden Gun." Let's hope Boyd can measure up to the standard set by Amis as a continuation author!
Surely Bond wouldnt be too cheesed off that as the book says Leiter only has his already false limbs mangled and a bit of a stump chewed a little by a shark would he??? seems to take all the drama out of Bond hunting Sanchez "OOOHHH you let a shark nibble my mate....a bit....not too much...just a few centimetres!!"
Wouldnt an MI6 agent Bond would wonder how come he can run into two arses called Milton Krest, who both have the same boat with the same name, yet he doesnt ask if their related...didnt deja vu strike???
will finish it though, halfway through at moment, as it's the only Bond book I never read before...