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Yes, but you seem to be forgetting that Blofeld does indeed mention how his past masterplans in TB and OHMSS were foiled by Bond. This references his past with SPECTRE even if he does not . As always, I think that Fleming was being much more realistic than were the later Bond films where SPECTRE kept coming back with Blofeld countless times. In Fleming's world SPECTRE only came back once after TB. In YOLT it was just the mad king Blofeld lobbing off people's heads with a samurai sword, years before the serial killer fiction craze of the 1990s that Blofeld's plan to maximise Japanese suicides in his Garden of Death is akin to.
Related: Never Dream of Dying is better than some of Fleming's work.
Benson's books are fun, yes. They lack subtlety & class though compared to Fleming's writing.
But the one you mention probably is a better book than GF and TMWTGG (books), god those were boring.
Yes. Fleming at his worst beats the vast majority of thriller-writers at their best.
Well with CR he said he wanted to write "the spy story to end all spy stories" iirc. So maybe he thought of it as a one off. But then the SMERSH stuff suggests to me that he had sequels in mind so I'm not sure.
Yeah that was insane. I know it was a different time, and Fleming's novels had plenty of objectionable content to modern mores (racism, homophobia, sexism, etc) but that may have taken the cake.
I hope you will release this woman ASAP.
My bet: he did like many firs-time writers do. Write one novel first, get it published, if there is a readership asking for more James Bond adventures, fine, if not, then at least he'd have written a great spy novel.
It's even worse when people on PC tirades try and sometimes succeed in taking out "offensive content" from books over a century old, especially the classics. I mean, really? Why soil these time capsules that give us an idea of what the world used to be like at the times they were published so we could, oh, I don't know, study and learn from it?
Ill appreciate the movies and books however I like. I love the books, but Im not going to pretend there isnt things that wouldn't be appropriate today. Id never encourage a black friens to read LALD for instance. No one is suggesting that the books be burned or edited; just a recognition that we've made some progress as a society that some attitudes are no longe acceptable.
Im not sure where youre getting the impression that I or anyone else thinks that rapists and kidnappers dont exist @-) of course they do. But people who rape and kidnap women are usually considered to be *bad guys*. I found Kermin's comment that the woman wouldnt leave and that maybe thats a lesson in female psychology amusing. Yeah, its called Stockholm Syndrome.
And Fleming was definitely trying to make Kermin a likable character. He mentions how much Bond likes him several timea and goes to great lengths to put him in a positive light.
Like the Bible for example? :P
:))
The film Bond is definitely different than the literary one, and Cubby said of the film version that "every man wants to be him."
IMO.
NO it means that everybody wants the luxury, the women and the excitement, and he is refering to the cinematic 007, Connery & Moore.
Cubby most certainly never made any remarks about the Craig era. Unless some journalist has some connections that would annoy the heck out of Vatican central. ;)
Erm, Cubby Broccoli died in 1996... or have you 'communicated' with him about Craig's portrayal since then? :)
Hmm... must be losing it. Didn't register SaintMark's last sentence at all when I was reading it. I blame it on the new-father fatigue syndrome.
And that is a absolute plausible defense, I recall those early days as well and they were magical and tiring. Good luck and enjoy it since it does not last so long. Before you know it they will give you lip.
For the record, I'm not complaining at all about the quality of the book or characters. I don't have a problem with the character existing, I think he's a very realistic and interesting character. I just don't like the guy personally, just as I don't like General Medrano or Le Chiffre.
I find TMWTGG to be one excellent piece of writing, not really up to the level of the previous two but nevertheless extremely good. A fitting way to conclude the arc, by almost closing it where it started in terms of Bond as a character.
The opening chapters in Colonel Sun rivals the best of Fleming. I was astounded when I read the first 60-70 pages.
For Special Services is miles ahead of Licence Renewed.
Plotting was never Fleming's strong point, going back to at least MR. But he excelled at character and atmosphere, which is why the quieter elements of the novel retained in the film CR worked so well.
I'm not sure this was an accident. If I remember my timeline correctly, Fleming was already in conflict with McClory and may not have wanted to bring up the "S" word.
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This is interesting. Do you think the events of SP--foiled for the fourth time--could push Blofeld to this level of lunacy in Bond 25, or do Bond and Blofeld need more history first (something more with Swann, probably)?
If we're lucky, we'll get one more film with Craig and Waltz, so Eon unfortunately doesn't have the luxury of stretching this arc out over several films.