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Do you want a sequel to Carte Blanche? Who would you like to write it?
Just wondering do you want another modern bond thriller Deaver's world and if so who do you want as author? deaver, Child another thriller writer? maybe someone out side the spy genre Steven king perhaps lol?
Ok i said it as a joke but bond being written by Steven King i think it would be more awesome then stupid.
Ok i said it as a joke but bond being written by Steven King i think it would be more awesome then stupid.
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I believe the original idea behind Carte Blanche was to have a new writer for each book. Deaver has said he's open to the idea of writing a second novel if IFP ask him to, but I think the plan is to rope in as many authors as they can.
I'll put a vote forward for Stuart MacBride. He tends to get lost in subplots and distractions and most of his characters are idiots (indeed, they've all been put together because they've embarrassed the police once too often and the police like them where they can see them), but if he can trim the fat out, he might be onto something.
GET A GRIP! X(
Ok, I accept we can't have the original Fleming character in the films nowadays, because some idiot will start smoking if he see's Craig doing it (yet we still have the excessive drinking which seems not to be a taboo although also harmful). But can't we at least have an original story with Bond as Fleming intended? If that means it being set in the past then so be it.
Yes, if we are given the original James Bond again but with the exception of a little less chauvinism for the sake of this PC rich world this would be entirely appreciated. I can also handle him not smoking.
I'd also be very interested to see Matthew Reilly have a go, but he'd have to exercise some restraint - Scarecrow was notoriously violent (and had some rather grusome parts). Like Baldacci, he had wavered; his last two entries, The Six Sacred Stones and The Five Greatest Warriors were as horrible as they were unnecessary. In fact, they were so horrible that I would normally refrain from suggesting him - but his next novel, Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves contains all the elements of his original success: tight time limits, claustrophobic locations, an impossible mission and overwhleming odds. And action: this is the man who wrote a forty-page hovercraft chase in Ice Station (well before DIE ANOTHER DAY was released) that was perfectly paced, very clear (I sometimes find action had to follow) and fresh enough that it just wasn't an overwhelming cacophony of noise; the characters always had something to do, and they never did the same thing twice. If 'the Reilly formula' could be applied to Bond, I think it would make for a very good story. Certainly something that would out-rank quite a few of the films in terms of entertainment.
in my opinion, what is the point of trying to copy Fleming? - it's hard enough to write a Bond book without being compared against the master, but to blatantly copy his style... thats like someone wearing Michael Jordan's jersey and saying "i'm going to go and play just like him, but for this new generation." ..... with all respect, Fleming is dead - let his style be his... if we are bringing in another writer to write the books, let them do their own thing...
I think Deaver is crafting something wonderful with CB (i say that because i have yet to finish it - i'm halfway through).. so I would naturally love to have him return to write another outing.. he sets the mood perfectly, knows how to write tension and suspense.. so i would welcome him back with open arms, should the publishers request it.
being an artist - I am all for someone maintaining their individuality as an artist.. if it turns out that they hire a writer, who was influenced greatly by Fleming, and borrows cues from him, then so be it.. but to blatantly rip off a style, regardless of what for i believe is soul-less - like the Gus Van Sant shot for shot remake of Psycho in 1998... we know it's not being written by Fleming, so why to pretend as such... I've got the Fleming Bond novels, I want to read something new and contemporary, and exciting - not something new, that is trying to be old.... if that makes sense..
Having said that, I welcome the premise of bringing Bond into the modern day.
A Bond who is completely ruthless, cunning, sinister and so forth.
The next Bond novel should be a completely new adventure and I believe an author who would be ideal is Nelson Demille.
I'd like Allan Folsom to write a second separate Book and give us a true portrayal of the REAL James Bond (I don't mind there being an absence of racism and smoking ) unlike what Deaver gave us - some spy who ownly shared the same name and alcohol intake as the original Bond. I did like Deaver's story though. :)
Folsom's The Day After Tomorrow is a splendid novel where the ending is very reminiscent of a Fleming book. A well written, exciting yarn.
Just kidding. He's already written a Bond novel and passed it off as his own work.
Grant Blackwood. I broke character and borrowed an anthology of short stories from the library, and one of the strongest that I've ready so far was by Blackwood. I've found a lot of the stories are a little too ambitiuous for their word-count, but Blackwood had a neat little spy thriller set in the 1950s called Sacrificial Lion where an American spy tricked the Soviets into assassinating their own key strategists. I was a little surprised to find that he co-authored a few books with Clive Cussler; I found a lot of Cussler's later books to be very weak, and I thought little of his co-written works.
David Morrell, who I also found through the thriller anthology. I know he wrote First Blood, but the thing I found most interesting wa the way his short story, The Abelard Sanction, was the resolution of a cliffhanger in a series that he stopped writing over a decade ago following the death of his son. Despite the fact that I have never read any of his books before, I really liked the short story; it was clear and concise, and like Blackwood, he wasn't too ambitious for the word count.
Chris Mooney. Another one taken from the thriller compendium, and another continuation of a novel. Apparently he never intended to revisit one of his characters, but a lot of his fans wanted to know what happened next, and he wrote his entry to see if he could keep writing the character. It wasn't as well-paced as the stories by Morrell or Blackwood, but it was enough to pique my interest and to try and find the original story.
I really do not like Deaver's writing.
Kennon: yes, Bernard Cornwell could be good, think.