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I'm the guy who uploaded it to YouTube, so of course I agree.
Thanks for letting us know about this. I've started reading that book. As for the review...
The subeditor went for a decidedly belittling header ("The creator of James Bond had an unremarkable career in intelligence and considered his own books 'piffle' ") that isn't true. Fleming did important work in intelligence that doesn't deserve to be dismissed. And like many Englishmen of his type he was self-deprecating, so his opinions on his books shouldn't be taken at face value.
As for the reviewer, he gets off to a shaky start by attaching vast importance to Fleming's "disdain for the working class" without noting that (1) working class characters are rare in the Bond novels, since Fleming wasn't terribly interested in English class issues, and (2) Bond eventually puts aside his negative feelings for the cabbie in Thunderball and talks to him as an equal; he wants to earn his respect.
The reviewer also makes a couple of silly mistakes--"Eric Blofeld"? His discussion of Fleming's ethnically mixed villains fails to mentioned that Bond and many of his allies are ethnically mixed themselves. And once again we're treated to the debunked rumor that Roger Moore was one of Fleming's first choices for Bond.
From hereon things improve. The reviewer sensitively discusses (and praises) The Spy Who Loved Me ("the prose is some of Fleming’s most energetic and surprising, and as often happens in the weird history of literature, the effect was so disconcerting that typical Bond fans hated it") and "Quantum of Solace," which shows he ultimately knows his stuff. He also mentions Amis's Bond Dossier and Umberto Eco's "The Narrative Structure of Ian Fleming," which remain the two best critical studies of the Bond books.
Overall, I think the reviewer got off to a bad start but ultimately showed he was familiar with Fleming and respected his achievements as a writer of "great genre fiction." Plenty of other reviewers would have consigned the man and his books to the trash can or treated them with condescension.
https://screenrant.com/james-bond-funny-scenes-villains/
Screen Rant: 10 Best Climaxes In James Bond Movies | ScreenRant.
https://screenrant.com/james-bond-best-climaxes/
Screen Rant: James Bond's Producers Made A Different No Time To Die In 1958.
https://screenrant.com/no-time-die-movie-1958-version-bond-connections/
Dolly had Braces ? the complexity of perception.
https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a37020970/rachel-weisz-james-bond-spoilers-husband-daniel-craig/
Directed by Terence Young (DN, FRWL, TB)
Written by Richard Maibaum (writer from the start through TLD)
and
it included performances by
Luciana Paluzzi (TB)
Anthony Newley (co-wrote the lyrics for GF theme song, with Leslie Bricusse, who wrote the lyrics for YOLT without Mr. Newley)
Anthony Newley passed away in 1999, but I hope we get to see an appearance from Ms. Paluzzi in THIS NTTD !
Please recall the precedents, among other, include these: Maud Adams appeared in major roles not once, but twice, and in a non-credited person-in-the-background-crowd in AVTAK, and -- more direct to D Craig with this one apparently being his last Bond film -- Tsai Chin played poker with Bond in Craig's first, CR, and had appeared in the Hong Kong sequence with Sean Connery in YOLT.
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2570440/sam-heughan-james-bond-audition-right-time-007-mantle-daniel-craig-outlander
Gizmodo Australia: Ranking Every 007 Film By How Hot Each James Bond Is.
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/07/james-bond-hot-not-ranking/
https://www.looper.com/461773/questionable-things-we-ignore-in-james-bond-films/
Military.com: Why the Longest-Serving James Bond Was the Ultimate Veteran.
https://www.military.com/off-duty/movies/2021/07/15/why-longest-serving-bond-was-ultimate-veteran.html
As always, a few mistakes in these stories.
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/empire-podcast-473-david-arnold-sam-richardson/?fbclid=IwAR2LVghvN4901IOIGzmB3ogwJWLiCs2D0RudpSVq2249juAK1fqLFnHdsbM
https://www.gamesradar.com/no-time-to-die-daniel-craig-interview-james-bond-25/
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2570552/007-daniel-craig-explains-why-nearly-left-james-bond-no-time-to-die
The Independent: James Bond: Daniel Craig explains what convinced him to play 007 one last time.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/bond-daniel-craig-b1885883.html
http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a37055013/james-bonds-pierce-brosnan-netflix-action-comedy/
Daily Mail: Ian Fleming's great-niece Hum Fleming designs VERY glamorous gown to benefit The Prince's Trust.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9795487/Ian-Flemings-great-niece-Hum-Fleming-designs-glamorous-gown-benefit-Princes-Trust.html
Screen Rant: Outlander Star Thinks Now Is The Right Time for Him to Play James Bond.
https://screenrant.com/james-bond-role-sam-heughan-interest-age-comments/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9802433/Pierce-Brosnan-hold-art-exhibition-previously-selling-Bob-Dylan-portrait-1-1-million.html
Screen Rant: James Bond's Felix Leiter Actor Surprised He Wasn't In Skyfall & Spectre.
https://screenrant.com/james-bond-felix-leiter-skyfall-spectre-jeffrey-wright-response/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9804431/Sir-Sean-Connery-reluctant-campaign-Scottish-devolution-meant-higher-tax-bill.html
Screen Rant: How James Bond Differs From Lashana Lynch's New No Time To Die MI6 Agent.
https://screenrant.com/no-time-die-bond-nomi-differences-lashana-lynch/
Express: Even James Bond can't charge his electric car: Government warned over off-street parking.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1464918/electric-charging-points-off-street-parking-warning-james-bond
A true Scotsman.
Come on now. He needed something for himself. ;)
https://screenrant.com/black-widow-movie-red-room-space-twist-moonraker-hint/
Yahoo Movies UK: Daniel Craig thought he wasn't 'physically capable' of being James Bond again.
https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/daniel-craig-thought-wasnt-physically-110000049.html
https://www.aol.co.uk/sir-sean-connery-tartan-tribute-134048683.html
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/daniel-craig-nearly-played-avenger-mcu.html/
https://screenrant.com/casino-royale-vesper-death-novel-suicide-change-better-why-explained/
Screen Rant: 10 Most Badass Bond Girls Who Could Take On The Role Of 007 Themselves.
https://screenrant.com/james-bond-badass-bond-girls/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/williams-brilliant-two-word-reaction-24595098
:))
Nice opening story about an interview
With Daniel Craig.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9822899/Sean-Connerys-socialite-granddaughters-Saskia-Natasha-charity-fashion-New-York.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9825697/Scrapman-turns-Land-Rover-007-submarine-drives-underwater.html