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Yes, a copy of Fleming's script 'Murder On Wheels' is included in the first edition 'Waterstones Exclusive'.
PussyNoMore got one on the launch evening signed by Horowitz.
PussyNoMore can't understand why IFP doesn't do something special for the aficionados when it comes to first/special editions?
Surely if they took advance orders via their own web site it would allow the publisher to print to order and do something really incredible like the Bentley 'Casino Royale' edition.
The marketing of the books is all a bit fire, steady aim. Shame really.
Which makes me sound like a really nice guy - but I must admit - I still sometimes wish I'd have scooped up ten copies. I'd have got my £150 back many-fold in a few years time.
I reckon it was less than a tenner then. I bet they're collectible already.
As did I at the launch in piccadilly think I may well of seen you PNM
Evidently he refused because he didn't like the creative oversight or the financial split.
If true, PussyNoMore thinks we've had a lucky escape. No fan could have taken any more of his tosh!
I mean, Carte Blanche had some interesting concepts, but his sensitive nonsensical persona he injected to his metrosexual Bond is something we don't need in our spy.
But, that said, I prefer Deaver over Boyd any day.
And, suddenly, a great deal of apprehension about actually reading it.
Yes, saw that this morning in my email subscription feed. Interesting news.
Think of it from a positive perspective, you did something good and gave money to a worthy. cause and thus far you haven't wasted your time reading it.You can return it and let some other poor unsuspecting individual take the pain.
PussyNoMore was not so lucky. He payed the full hardback cover price on the day it was published and the completist in him obliged him to read it from cover to cover. It was worse than Benson and we are not talking about Hedges.
How IFP could consider commissioning another outing with this politically correct, Oakley Sunglasses wearing piece of Americana has PussyNoMore scratching his well coiffured head.
Happily we have the new one from our man Horowitz to look forward to.
Ouch!
I almost picked up one of Benson's novels in my local charity shop on Saturday, before remembering that I had in fact donated it the previous week. So that was a pretty forgettable experience.
+1. I have it too.
Ha ha, which one was it?
I'm too much of a fanatic to give anyway Bond lit away!
1. Fleming (the man wasn't prefect but he invented the character the world and did an amazing job)
2. Benson (I once talked to the author on Facebook only to find he was a straight a Jackass but oh well loved all his books)
3. Amis (colonel sun is just THAT good)
4. Deaver (really enjoying the reread of Carte Blanche
5. Gardner (one novel Win Lose or Die was great the rest of his series I have read so far come off just ok)
6. Horrowitz (Trigger is ok not great not bad just ok)
7. Faulks (I threw the book across the room it was sop bad)
8. Boyd (GOOD GOD solo was so boring)
I haven't read either of Wood's novelizations Pearson's book or the young bond books/moneypenny diaries (though I own one of the latter) Currently I am on a reread of Carte Blanche and enjoying it of course it's not perfect but I find it far more enjoyable then either book that came after (yes I put Carte Blanche over Trigger Mortis)
I will pick up Horrowitz second book day of likely as at least his last book was vaguely enjoyable in parts (but if we get more of Bond and his women drama that amounts to nothing for the first half of the book I am done)
I do wish Deaver did a series of Modern Bonds or maybe Daniel Silva (his last name is the same as one of the more loved villains in recent years he HAS to write a bond novel lol) I realize I am in the minority here (this love of keeping bond in the 50's when even Fleming had Bond change to the times instead of staying stagnant is ridiculous to say the least but sigh)
I can't remember :P No, it was The Man with the Red Tattoo.
I'm normally the same as you about hanging on to Bond, but I make occasional exceptions. If the cover design had been remotely attractive, I might have hung on to it...
He actually did give Bond a pc bent. It was frightening. Very odd to read, plus he obsessed with twists and turns, like he was writing a whodunnit.
The finish was awful with it's tedious reveals.
CB is the worst Bond book ever.
All the others have some merit at least,even Faulks and Cole, but Deaver's effort is bonfire material.
Because of CB I could never bring myself to read anything else by this author.
But we are in good hands now with Horowitz handling adult Bond, and Steve Cole putting out very readable Young Bonds.
Yeah, that was my impression of CB: endless twists upon twists, and the worst of it was that most of the time the reveals proved the least exciting option. Like when
I'm looking forward to Horowitz's next novel. His first was a pretty promising combination of quality prose and exciting narrative. That said, I don't think I was as wowed by Trigger Mortis as many were. It was quite lacking in the originality department between our Colonel Sun-inspired villain, Jason Sin, and the Gardner-esque set pieces like the German castle and the underground train finale; even the motel shootout felt like a page taken from Gardner. Hopefully Horowitz keeps up the quality of his prose for his sophomore effort while branching into less been there, done that territory.
Horowitz has shown that he is capable of wonderful things.
For many Holmes fans (PussyNoMore included) he scored a ten with 'House Of Silk'. It was seriously good and up there with 'The Hound Of The Baskerviilles'.
In PussyNoMore's not so humble opinion, TM was maybe Horowitz's Goldfinger and his next one could be his FRWL.
If the rumour is correct and next years effort will be a prequel to CR (something that he let slip in an early interview) then this would take him onto original turf and allow him to really stretch out.
We know that he is concerned to give his Bond books the 'elan' of the modern thriller and in his head, this could mean, 'action'. If so, maybe this is the mistake because this is the domain of the movies rather than the books.
Make it dark would be PussyNoMore's advice - CR type dark. More Benzedrine for Mr Bond and no condoms please we are not politically correct metrosexuals!
IMO, i would like to see new Bond novels set in there here and now, rather than back during the cold war... i mean christ - we are almost reaching a new watershed mark when it comes to nuclear provocation in today's political climate - what better time to need James Bond than now.
Wasn't that Solo? Or is that something that was in both?
Hmm, I guess I don't remember either Carte Blanche or Solo too well. I seem to recall Bond renting a room or an office from which to spy on a building across the way, and then using some kind of cover/alias to enter said building in Solo. Could be misremembering, but I thought that's what you were referring to. I don't recall the salesman stuff in CB, but I believe it. That was a pretty long book.
again the reread is really fun
Solo bored me to death I gave the book away as soon as I finished it.
Carte Blanche, as I said, had interesting concepts but Bond was characterized way too wrongfully. Deaver did say back then it wasn't going to be Fleming's Bond, but he gave the spy an interpretation that I couldn't bear. A Bond you'd see played by David Beckham to suit his needs and persona. Glad he didn't do any further. But, the Steele Cartridge epilogue was a great one with Bond's mother turning out to be a spy-hunter killed by the Soviets to stop her from exposing KGB moles within the MI-6.
Trigger Mortis was okay. I'm with @Risico007 on this one. It's great and all, but tad too overglorified. Nevertheless, I like Horowitz and I'm glad he's coming back. After all, TM was just the start.
Merry Christmas and a Happy literary 007 2018!
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