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Ticket prices are slashed to £15 and admission is general, there is no reserved seating - therefore no guarantee of entry.
The abysmal marketing of this event has reaped its own reward!
PussyNoMore's blood is boiling.
"007 Forever. Politically Correct Never"
I haven't read DMC, but I think that's a genuinely great title, one I wouldn't mind them nicking for a film in the future.
I'm not too bothered by this, because a) I'm very cheap, b) more intimate setting and c) now I can choose who I sit next to.
Maybe it will be you!
Better they change it to a smaller room than having a lot of empty seats. Still, it's sad to see the marketing for the event is so bad. Now, I haven't followed this very closely, as the event is in a different country and all, but I've only ever come across information about the event once - and that was here on the forum!
Still no word on a special edition, but a friend who's read the book tells me that chapter 9 ("Russian Roulette") is based on Fleming material.
It's one of my least favourites of his. Sure, the skill is there, but I find myself speeding through the first third just to get to Bond, which is the whole reason why I'm reading the book in the first place.
No, no one is going to say that. So what? That validates him in your eyes?
Well, it negates your statement "to say [FAA] should be more adventurous like TSWLM (which Fleming was not thrilled with and while different, was one of his weakest books), shows he's a snot aspiring to be knowledgeable." I've already said that the review has problems and is too nitpicky, but faulting Horowitz for not being as adventurous as Fleming is a valid criticism, even if one doesn't agree with it.
Revelator is correct, the criticism is valid but if Horowitz continues, he may well (IFP permitting) become more adventurous.
One could say that doing a prequel is adventurous in itself ?
PussyNoMore doesn’t know how Horowitz’s works sell in other markets? In the U.K. he does extremely well. TM relit the spark after Solo and Pussy suspects he drew many new readers to the franchise. Particularly those that grew up with his ‘Alex Ryder’ series and that has to be a good thing.
With the launches coming up the competition for the summer espionage dollar is going to be tough but IFP/Cape marketing incompetence withstanding, he should do well.
Thanks Red_Snow.
PussyNoMore found it pedestrian due to the interviewer, Frostup’s obsession with the #metoo thing. All deeply ironic given that she is the ex-presenter of ‘Sex Box’ and former member of ‘The Primrose Hill Set’. What will we have next, Kate Moss relaunching herself as a nun ?
Sigh, still the show must go on and Horowitz kept his end up.
“007 Forever. Politically Correct Never”
I'm of that 'Alex Ryder generation' myself (if you can call it that), and I read the first five books in the early 00's. Remember they were quite good compared to other books aimed at that age group. He's written more books about the character since then, so I'm sure there are (and will) be younger readers making the jump from those books to his Bond novels.
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PussyNoMore loves octofinger’s description of The Guardian’s role in life !
He only omits to mention that their writers are normally aged ten and a half and look at you with swivel eyes.
They have shown a hell of a lot of restraint here and it makes you wonder what their real agenda is ?
Looking really forward to both with the Diaries having a release date of the 1st of June.
Are there any differences in content?
That's actually one of the better US edition covers I've seen in a while. Looks kind of like a mix of a 60's crime paperback and a holiday ad from the same era.
Oh noooooo!
PussyNoMore thinks this one looks like the front of a club med travel brochure.
Whatever are they thinking about ?
Surely its only merit is to try and make the UK edition look good which it isn’t !
Beautiful.
Seen them worse, to be honest. One thing though; if they've tried to make it look like a retro early 50's cover, I think the riviera image looks a bit too modern (could have toned down the colours a bit, for example). Would have been interesting to see a more illustrative approach - if only an illustration of a boat at speed, or something else relating to the story.
I like the simplicity of the covers of a couple of Horowitz's more recent books:
Not an illustration style suitable for Bond, necessarily, but it's interesting to see that illustrations have been used for some of his other titles.
PussyNoMore agrees with you that these two artworks are superficially more attractive. Pussy uses the ‘superficial ‘ word because he doesn’t know what lies between the covers. If they portray the essence of the stories that they represent, they could even be considered good.
FAAD on the other hand is just mind numbingly average on both sides of the Atlantic but if Pussy has to choose, and He has to, it would be the U.K. edition.
The last good US hardback first edition was actually DMC. It had a nice strong ‘Mad Men’ type retro feel to it. The Pussy kept that in preference to the U.K. release which was dross.
I mean the only advantage the dusk jackets could have if it's the real cover (in cardboard) under it was beautifull. But no, it's never the case : the real cover of dusk jackets are always horribles, just simple monochromes. So why the heck is so popular and Bond's book continue to have these?