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That's 15 total, which sounds like a heavy undertaking. That's seven months total, so roughly two books a month? I guess it's viable, we'll see how much I progress in the next couple of months.
That's impressive! Hope you make it through all the books, including FAAD. Reading all the books in succession might give some fresh insight to Fleming's writing in comparison to the continuation writers!
That's nearly one a day. I could manage that, if all I did those entire two weeks was read.
Unfortunately you won't get another Fleming. He's dead.
Oh how PussyNoMore wishes he could be so amateurish!
For fun Pussy read FAAD and CR back to back and it re-enforced his view that, in the round, Horowitz has done a very creditable job.
Where he falls foul of this particular literary aficionado is when he speeds things up to please a supposedly ‘modern’ audience. The Pussy can live with this because everybody has to make a buck. Some of Fleming’s work was quite slow by contemporary standards, PussyNoMore loved that because you can really soak up the atmosphere but he doubts that it would fly today particularly with the movie buffs. Boyd tried that with ‘Solo’ and was buried.
All said FAAD was better than TM, which in itself was good. It’s a rollicking fun read and, at the end of the day, isn’t this what Fleming did ? The Pussy thinks he’ll be smiling.
Benson's did. That was amateur hour.
PussyNoMore can’t completely agree that it was just the story.
Boyd tried to build on the angst of TMWTGG and turn Bond into a melancholic Graham Greene type character.
Ultimately the book failed at every level which Pussy found quite distressing as he is a Boyd fan and had harboured massively high hopes for ‘Solo’.
To say they were dashed is the understatement of the decade. Thank God Horowitz has saved us !
http://www.007.info/from-southbank-with-love-horowitz-on-his-new-007-novel/
Since we are never getting a new Fleming novel I prefer a third one by Horowitz as he seems to understand the character. A new novel by Charlie Higson is welcome too.
But so far I have enjoyed these two 007 books better than the last two movie stories of Emo-Bond.
A classic Bond lady, a partial plot borrow form a EON movie, the first half of the book is close to bloody brilliant and 007 in his own Fleming timeline. Very enjoyable.
If this is fan-fiction I wish I could write as well.
Gosh, they took good notes! I'm glad someone got all the details down, because a lot of them are fading for me already.
Too true SaintMark. Clearly you are a Bondologist with consummate good taste.
Like you, PussyNoMore's absolute preference is for Horowitz to continue.
The Faulks, Deaver, Boyd rollercoaster of despair was too much to take and the thought of going through it all again is enough to make a man sell his Bentley !
If however he were to dip out, Pussy would certainly welcome Higson as his successor. Charlie did a marvellous job with 'Young Bond' and even if Horowitz continues it would not be crazy to have Higson take Bond through his war period.
Regarding FAAD, it might be fun if readers indicated their favourite chapters.
For PussyNoMore it was 'Killing By Numbers', 'Strawberry Moon', 'First Day' & 'Meeting With M'.
Effectively the first four or the set-up.
Horowitz got these absolutely pitch perfect. You could almost feel Fleming looking over his shoulder.
There again Pussy always preferred the beginnings of Fleming's books.
CR, L&LD, MR, FRWL & OHMSS were really the only five full length novels that maintained the
intensity and quality of the early chapters throughout.
I saw Charlie Higson talk Bond at the Imperial War Museum soon after Devil May Care came out. His view was that Faulks had squandered his opportunity a bit, and if he, Higson, had been given the chance to write adult Bond, he'd have put in lots of 'nasty violence and freaky sex'!
Now that's what PussyNoMore likes to hear !
Sadly it is not the Waterstone edition with Fleming text and Horowitz's introduction about it. If someone kindly could scan or photograph those pages, I'd be eternally grateful...
For Horowitz to miss it is not particularly forgivable. For his editor to miss it is unforgivable.
It is interesting that the faux pas in both books have been transport related !
Have any of you spotted the faux pas yet ?
That begs the question, which 5? It's been so long since I've touched some I honestly couldn't say with any clarity what I would say are the five best. Plus, what I liked at 18-20 I may not find as in character with Fleming in my early 40's. I remember loving them all in my youth, particularly Benson and I'm not so sure I would feel that way now having reread Fleming more.
I got my copy Monday and once I finish Thunderball I plan to dive into it with a glass of MacAllan or a Vesper hopefully by the weekend!
Have any of you renowned Bondologists out there spotted the faux pas yet or do you need yet another clue ?
I know all of that might sound harsh but I did enjoy it! (just didn't love it)
No I have not got a clue.