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As if you have not.
Amis- Colonel Sun
Wood- reading James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me
Pearson- The Authorised Biography of 007
Faulks- Devil May Care
Gardner- Order all + License to Kill. Will start on it as it's get here
Benson- All (not novelisations)
Hesitating to buy Solo.. Is it's worth to?
Would you believe there are some I still need to read when I get a chance?
The Young Bond novels and some of the new ones.
You surprise me there, I always thought you were the one who read them all considering your contributions to this site and your own blog.
Yes, it is surprising, but I'm working on reading those I have missed.
It took me a long time as well, firstly in collecting all Gardners and collecting the Bensons which was much more difficult. The Flemings, colonel Sun & Woods I had read several times while I was a teenager.
Higson I collected when they were published, the Moneypenny diaries later, The Gardner were available up to a point in the series the rest was Ebay and such. The Benson novels were all Ebay and hardcover.
The newer books like Higson on day of publishing.
It was this site that clued me to the existence of the series, so I knew about the third book, Final Fling, when it came out. Its the only one of the three that I have in HC.
All the other recent stuff, I just picked up in bookstores as it came out. Only exception being "Solo" which I ordered from library, with intention of buying when the hardcovers hit the bargain bin. I just wasn't that excited to read it right away, given the negative early fan reviews, which were quite on the mark, I'd say.
A lot of my great purchases came from Ebay and way cheaper than Amazon could manage these days as well I might add.
I had the same problem so Ebay solved a lot of problems.
I read Fleming's short stories as well.
I read Carte Blanche by Deaver.
I read Devil May Care by Faulks.
I am currently reading John Gardner's books. I have finished: License Renewed, For Special Services, Role of Honor, Ice Breaker and I'm currently reading Nobody Lives Forever.
I can't think of any time when they weren't readily available on bookstore shelves in Toronto.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Her-Majestys-Secret-Service/dp/0141802952/ref=sr_1_15?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426452428&sr=1-15
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thunderball-Ian-Fleming/dp/0141802979/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426452428&sr=1-16
TMWTGG
I've read these back in the Seventies:
DN
FRWL
DAF
YOLT
LALD
GF
MR
As you can see my literary Bond is pretty light weight compared to others here. I daresay that FRWL has some of Fleming's best writing, while I really enjoyed the heck out of YOLT. I did enjoy most of them but if I had to pick one I did not care for it would be TMWTGG. Kinda a blase book. I don't remember much about it, it has been more than 40 years since I read it. I just barely remember that the book did not do much for me.
Amis All
Pearson None yet
Wood None yet
Gardner I have read a few of his (License Renewed IceBreaker Never Send Flowers License to Kill and I believe Win Lose or Die) Currently Reading Seafire and I am enjoying it immensely
Benson All except the novelizations
Faulks Dreafully I Read DMC such a bad bond novel
Deaver Read Carte Blanche and I plan on rereading it at somepoint
Boyd Solo Read it hated it
I will pick up Horowitz novel Trigger Mortis.