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Does anyone else want to add their thoughts on this one?
I'm currently writing a piece on the future Bond novels Fleming had ideas for so all input is very much appreciated, as always! :)
Very much agreed on that. What happened to our fellow member @Kennon I wonder?
Looking forward to your blogpost on the sunject, @Dragonpol. Start working!
I will get to it. Thank you for your contribution, @Thunderfinger. :)
Taking it a stage further, if Fleming had been a moderate smoker, drinker and womaniser, the chances are that he would never have got Bond into print, simply because the character would be considered too ordinary and too bland to arouse the imagination of the reading public. As it stands, Fleming's relatively short life actually contributed to the success of Bond.
Maybe we should be grateful for the quality books we have. Quality, in my experience, is usually preferable to quantity.
It's surprising though, how many literary geniuses there have been whose talent was fuelled by substances, illegal or otherwise. Writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ernest Hemmingway, Norman Mailer, to name but a few did their best work zonked out of their minds. Their lives or literary careers were often short, but they left behind some wonderful stuff. This is the same in other fields of artistic creativity too. The relatively recent death of Amy Winehouse is such a case.
http://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/maxim-legends/article/james-bond-ian-fleming-letters-2015-10
I wasn't sure where to post it on the forums, but here seems a fitting enough place. The writer made quite a few silly errors along the way, forgetting a word here and there, but it's readable enough.
My pleasure @DarthDimi! :) I always love happening on anything Fleming related, especially when the information is straight from his mouth.
A new book came out recently that compiled some of Ian's private letters that has to be an absolute trip to read. I think a lot of the quotes in that article came from that.