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Well it happens to the best of us who is ready to start drinking on cinco de mayo
Yes, the literary Bond is now younger than me too. It's official. I suppose it had to happen at some point with a contemporary set Bond continuation novel...
Closing time Dragonpol buy me another pint :)
Wait how is that not the next use a bond line… cause i need a good bond line for how i feel now being 2 years older then 007
Try being four years older! Oh, well. Time waits for no man, as they say. I wouldn't want to be a youngster nowadays anyway.
So your Bond quote would i presume be
“Well you cant win them all”
Or
“Nick Nack Tabasco”
You can't win them all, definitely.
There's a typo at the bottom of page six. That's quite unusual for a mass-market novel.
Per the interview Higson did with David Zaritsky on YouTube, the book came together at great speed. He got asked in February, it was written in March, and edited in April. And Higson owned up in the interview to spotting a couple of mistakes when he was reading the audiobook but it was too late to correct the print edition. As an author myself, I sympathize as typos do happen, even with multiple passes over a manuscript by different people.
I think/hope there will be a follow up.
And I will be curious to see if some of the things I think are being set up are true.
Care to pm me your thoughts i would love to know what to be on the look out for
Same here!
Overall from what i have read its better then the Horowitz novels and actually i enjoy it better almost as much a Benson and its only one chapter in…
Praying Higson is announced as the next continuation author with a modern set series of 6 novels not including this one (bringing his total to 7)
Will his downbeat comments about NTTD have any influence on him being chosen to do more? I don't know how much EON and the Fleming family have to do with each other.
I doubt it'll make much difference. It seems to be a trend with most Bond continuation authors including Amis, Gardner, Faulks, Boyd, Horowitz and now Higson to criticise the Bond films. Gardner famously didn't watch the Bond films during his long run as Bond continuation author so as not be to influenced by them in any way. The novels and the films are different beasts and although Eon is much bigger financially than IFP I don't think much will change. There's always been a healthy rivalry between the novels and the films and authors have written further Bond novels in the past after being critical of the contemporary Bond films.
I also like that the main girl
Tattoo
Also the ‘tell me something I don’t know’ joke made me genuinely laugh :)
I'm looking forward to reading it. It's the most exciting literary Bond news I've heard for a good few years, being a lover of the traditional Fleming-Amis-Gardner-Benson contemporary set continuity in particular.
Don’t forget the birthday boy today, Jeffery Deaver! He wrote Bond in modern day as well!
Agreed from what i read so far its better then really every book since Carte Blanche… very happy
Yes, I should have included him too as part of the contemporary set literary Bond school. Happy Birthday to him!
I'll do a write-up after I've read it, but it's absolutely nowhere near Horowitz's Bonds. That's not to say I'm not enjoying it, or that I don't think it's an essential purchase for Bond book fans.
It's great fun.
Basically read like fanfiction. Too many modern references to people and events. Fleming peppered them in…here they are sprinkled like Hundreds & Thousands.
Plot was ok, but who was this Bond? I couldn’t get a feel for him or who he was.
Nowhere near the level of Horowitz. I prefer my Literary Bond in the Fleming era personally. However I don’t think we will be getting that again for a while, if ever. Oh well.
The first chapter of OHisMSS is better then all three Horowitz novels
I think, like me, you just prefer the contemporary set Bond novels that were the norm up until 2008 and the publication of Sebastian Faulks's Devil May Care, set in 1967. It's good to hear you're enjoying this new Bond novella from Charlie Higson.