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That's a nice little christmas gift for us Bond fans! Is Horowitz a Tintin fan as well?
Seems like it.
Watching OHMSS at the moment. Nice little Christmas film. :)
What I wish to see however is a contemporary Bond novel, and not a period piece shoehorned in the middle of Fleming's timeline like Mortis did, as well as his use of vocabulary and narrative kind of put me off when it came to this "period piece Fleming's Bond" when his instruments suited for modernity as opposed to Fleming's sophistication of storytelling abilities. A Fleming imitation was previously tried and failed miserably nine years ago with Sebastian Faulks, they shouldn't go for it. Horowitz should just write a Horowitz Bond novel and I am sure he will succeed in bringing the character to present day with his spin on it while staying true to the roots, unlike Jeffery Deaver.
Really liked a period piece like Trigger Mortis, and Horowitz is the right writer for that timeline. On the other hand, it's totally understandable that a present day book would be preferable for some readers – and Horowitz could easily do a book in a present day timeline as well. :-)
The prose didn't bother me that much, really, but that depends on the reader, of course! :-)
Did not care much for Solo, either. In fact, the most interesting thing about that novel, was the encounter with Bryce Fitzjohn…
PussyNoMore must respectfully disagree. All the trops of Fleming’s Bond are firmly anchored in the ‘50s and ‘60s and this endless minority desire to re-boot literary 007 into a present day scenario is the equivalent of throwing a pork chop into a synagogue.
Let him live on in piece. Shaging without condoms whilst smoking and drinking himself into an early grave. The PC brigade have their cinema ‘Jimmy Bond’ . Why can’t we have our real Bond?
For heavens sake, look what an absolute cods Deaver made of things with Carte Blanche. Surely nobody who can read wants to live through that again?
Anthony is on the right track. Please God let him continue.
Nice view!
PussyNoMore hopes this one is the prequel to CR - he waits with bated breath !
You can have Fleming's all manly man Bond who shags, smokes, drinks and kills without hesitation in a contemporary setting without "rebooting" or "retooling" the character.
And as I said... I'm not a fan of Jeffery Deaver's effort in Carte Blanche... But, it was still more enjoyable than Boyd's bland Solo.
That's what it was meant to be initially anyway. I assume it's still the case?
Right. In the book the one eyed guy gets away. Following that thread and the boyfriend is intriguing.
PussyNoMore knows this is a broad church @ClarkDevlin but he does not consider comics as literature.
Though it was done in Trigger Mortis of course so it's a moot point anyhow.
Either PussyNoMore is not explaining himself correctly or @ClarkDevlin is not understanding him correctly.
PussyMoMore will try again.
James Bond as created by Ian Lancaster Fleming is a character firmly rooted in the '50s.
To maintain his characteristics and transpose him into todays environment would be about as relevant as Poldark turning up in Midsummer's Murders. Deaver tried it and he made a complete cods out of it. It's also the reason that the films are a complete mess and why the last good one was FRWL.
This is not what Horowitz has done. He has respected Fleming's time line and trops but has injected the élan and pace associated with modern thrillers. It can be discussed wether this is a good thing or not. PussyNoMore thinks it is.
In any event IFP tried the modern take with Deaver and it proved about as popular with the literary aficionados as Sir Nick Clegg would at Nigel Farage's New Year party.
As for those that don't read books. They should. That way they can get used to joined up writing and become more intelligent.
Happy New Year to all James Bond (as created by Ian Lancaster Fleming) fans.
Likewise, my friend, I wish you a happy new year.
That is the route that the movies take and it is completely fine for those that like that sort of thing but please, don't pretend for a minute that this is Fleming's Bond.
Fleming wrote in his own time (the 1950s and 1960s) and the setting was contemporaneous. The continuation authors, by and large, have done the same. So, I can fully accept what the continuation Bond authors did and why they did it. In fact, I fully support it, but then I could hardly think anything else as a staunch supporter of the continuation Bond project!
Sorry but PussyNoMore’s whole point has nothing to do with minor Fleming discrepancies.
The fact is that the Bond ‘character’ is a ‘character’ of the ‘50s and early ‘60s.
Nobody tried to transpose MR Pickwick from 1836 to 1900. The very idea would have been ridiculous yet people think it is fine to have their own James Bond, in their own way, in their own time.
This is because of the movies but movies are a different medium and are consumed in an altogether different way to books.
You consume a film in a couple of hours but you read a book over a considerably longer period and are obliged to dig deep, use your own imagination to visualise events and characters.
Reading Fleming you are transposed to a post colonial world that he describes in beautiful, meticulous detail and which he populates with his characters who have all the values - good and bad - of that time.
When this is tampered with. Skilfully in the case of early Gardner and much less so in the case of Benson and Deaver, it quickly goes awry and this is because the character lacks all relevance. This is why Amis was so scathing about Gardner and it is why the only ‘continuation ‘ novels worth talking about are set in Flemings era : Colonel Sun and Triger Morris.