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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    I had to adjust for it. I am working class, so only have a regular pc screen.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    I had to adjust for it. I am working class, so only have a regular pc screen.

    I am very much working class too but I saved up and got a new PC and spacious screen last year! It's a Godsend!
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    Wonderful article, no screen wobble here...
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    Wonderful article, no screen wobble here...

    Great, thanks, @PropertyOfALady! It must just be on my friend's computer then I'm guessing!
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    What resolution have you? 1920x1080?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    What resolution have you? 1920x1080?

    I'm not terribly sure! How do I check?
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    Well I suppose that depends on what you're using (Windows, Mac etc.) Try Googling "Check screen resolution for [insert OS]"
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    Well I suppose that depends on what you're using (Windows, Mac etc.) Try Googling "Check screen resolution for [insert OS]"

    I use Google Chrome.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    If you've got Windows 7 you can right-click on your desktop, then click "screen resolution"
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    If you've got Windows 7 you can right-click on your desktop, then click "screen resolution"

    Thanks, I just did that. My screen resolution is 1920x1080 (recommended).

  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    I thought it might be.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    I thought it might be.

    It was just that a good friend emailed me to say they could not read the article properly due to it moving up and down on his PC screen.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    Copy and paste into Word then :D
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    Copy and paste into Word then :D

    Yes, that's exactly what I did for him - and then sent it to him as an email attachment. I'm a whizkid! ;)
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited November 2015 Posts: 18,279
    A quick update to let my blog readers know that a new Guest Article by my new contributor Pete Swan has been uploaded today at The Bondologist Blog to accompany the release of Spectre in cinemas. The article focuses on 10 quotes from the original Ian Fleming James Bond novels that we're not likely to see on the cinema screen any time soon:

    http://thebondologistblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/10-offensive-quotes-from-ian-flemings.html
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Thanks, I must be abnormal to enjoy those quotes. i find them hilarious.

    As for them never turning up on film, never say never. In a period piece, who knows?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Thanks, I must be abnormal to enjoy those quotes. i find them hilarious.

    As for them never turning up on film, never say never. In a period piece, who knows?

    Yes, indeed some of them are funny to read now.

    I can't ever see them doing a period piece Bond film but after the reboot, I suppose anything's possible.

    Glad you enjoyed my first quest article on The Bondologist Blog, @Thunderfinger!

    More new content on the way soon.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Thanks, I must be abnormal to enjoy those quotes. i find them hilarious.

    As for them never turning up on film, never say never. In a period piece, who knows?

    No, you're not alone. I must be abnormal too. I especially enjoy the one about Vesper and how she should be at home working in the kitchen. One does have to keep in mind the context of the times when reading the Fleming novels, that's for sure.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Today I've uploaded a new Guest Article by Colonel Sun expert and author Hank Reineke:

    http://thebondologistblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/eleven-years-later-addendum-to-dossier.html

    I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited March 2016 Posts: 18,279
    Birdleson wrote: »
    Certainly puts the friendship in a different light. It seems like they hardly knew each other.

    Yes, I believe Mr Reineke is correct in saying they only met twice towards the end of Fleming's life. I guess it's just that Amis is so associated with Fleming as the author of The James Bond Dossier and The Book of Bond and also by being his first literary heir with Colonel Sun. Still, I'm glad that they had the chance to meet.
  • RevelatorRevelator
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Certainly puts the friendship in a different light. It seems like they hardly knew each other.

    Years ago I remember being surprised that Fleming and Amis had even met--they seemed like figures from different worlds. I had assumed that Fleming died without being aware of The James Bond Dossier.

    But yes, they met twice. Eric Jacobs's biography of Amis states that Fleming gave his impressions of the Dossier over lunch at L'Etoile restaurant in Charlotte Street:
    Amis went with some misgivings. Although his book was more pro than anti, Amis had pulled Fleming up where he thought he had gone wrong, complaining, for instance, when the Bond books slipped into "the idiom of the novelette." But Fleming wasn't worried about any of that. He had only two complaints to make. Oddjob had been sucked, not blown, out of the pressure-cabin of an aircraft. And there was no St. Andrews Golf Club; the club in question was the Royal and Ancient Golf Club. Apart from these, Fleming had no objections or corrections and no quarrel with Amis's critical judgments (p. 271)

    Fleming also provided a written blurb for the Dossier: "Intelligent, perceptive, and of course to me highly entertaining. The whole jape is quite spiffing and heaven knows what a smart reviewer will do about the book"

    The second encounter is described in one of Ann Fleming's letters to Evelyn Waugh, dated July 19, 1964:
    Kingsley Amis came to dinner; his anger was well concealed, or has perhaps gone in middle age. I suspected he wrote of Ian to further his own sales, but it seemed a genuine admiration, he thinks Ian should write a straight novel.

    The reference to "anger" is a joke about Amis's status as one of the "angry young men," a group of artists who shook up the British arts establishment in the 1950s. Ann, who seems to have had an irrational hatred and suspicion of Amis, didn't realize that Amis had been growing more conservative.
    I wish Fleming had lived long enough to follow Amis's advice!
  • stagstag In the thick of it!
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    This is one of the best 007 themed blogs on the internet. Very well written indeed. I haven't visited it for a while but intend to shortly.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Yes, it's always a good read. :)
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Thanks to @stag and @Thunderpussy for the kind words. I really appreciate the support. It certainly encourages me to keep on writing and not to give up on the project. I'm afraid that I'm not terribly prolific as a writer of Bond articles but happily I can announce there will be some new articles featuring on the blog very soon.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Everyone has a life, family and job. so finding any time, Is hard !
    But keep, keeping on. :)
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Thunderpussy wrote: »
    Everyone has a life, family and job. so finding any time, Is hard !
    But keep, keeping on. :)

    Yes, that's true. I'll keep battling on! :D
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    One of the reasons I'm so in awe of those Fans ( we know a few) who have
    the discipline to set aside time, to write a book or two. =D> I don't know
    how they do it, like many of us, I have loads of ideas, but never carry them
    through :( So I'm sure trying to constantly find new stories, articles or
    points of interest for a blog must be equally as difficult.
  • MrcogginsMrcoggins Following in the footsteps of Quentin Quigley.
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    What's with the change of Title then Draggers are you comming in from the cold ?...
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited July 2016 Posts: 18,279
    Yes, I thought it was silly to keep using the alias David Dragonpol (the serial killer villain of John Gardner's Never Send Flowers, 1993) from here on in. I thought it better to trade off my own name so that it doesn't look like I'm ashamed of my writing so much! Whether this is wise or not I don't know! I'll leave that judgement to my readers. :))
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited November 2016 Posts: 18,279
    The upcoming content will still be of the same quality though, despite the name change.
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