[Perdogg]

Again, this thread is not about homosexuality or if Bond is a muslim. I think Boyd misses Fleming point in "Live and Let Die".

[Perdogg]

ping

[Hardraade]

But what is Boyd?

[Bratch]

I think if you were of that privileged upper class, born at the beginning of the 20th century, you were probably racist, sexist, right wing and anti-Semitic.'

Fixed.

[Kip Russell]

His new Bond novel is set in the year 1969, so he’s imposing modern-day PC values on a half-century old version of James Bond. Laughable.

[headstamp 2]

This arrogant idiot couldn’t shine Fleming’s shoes.

[LostInBayport]

I gave you a green arrow. :)

[fieldmarshaldj]

And what exactly is wrong with being right wing ? He sounds like an arrogant elitist PC asshole.

[Calvin Locke]

I think Boyd is using his own contemporary artistically leftist standards to judge Fleming while attempting to justify his own, apparently denigrated, version of "Bond".

IOW, Boyd's a critical deconstructionist.

[Lx]

If Ian Flemming is so bad, why is he standing on his shoulders? Bond is already created, he only has to send him on another adventure and he’s complaining about the source material??

Is he another 60’s idiot now with power?

[BenLurkin]

Ian Fleming 'was sexist, racist and sadistic'

Aaaand loving it!

[Flick Lives]

Ian Fleming 'was sexist, racist and sadistic': New Bond author says his book is well-written... unlike the originals

Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Fleming was wildly successful, and this author is using that success for his own book, yet insulting the very books Fleming wrote. Ingratitude, they name is liberal.

[MamaB]

Guess I know which author I will be avoiding. Had all of the originals at one time.

[SeminoleCounty]

Well, I guess Bond has been neutered even more

I never knew Bond as racist. And, yes, he was already quite “diverse” with his women in Live and Let Die

[Chode]

feh...

[Billthedrill]

The Cold War is over, and so the entire idea of a recherche thug being one of the good guys is uncomfortable for the PC mindset.

If the author wanted to capture the spirit of Bond, his hero would be shooting Muslim terrorists. In the back. And it would be a good thing.

[x]

Not really surprising, is it? Whatever your political or ideological affiliation, if you were one of Fleming's peers or contemporaries you probably didn't have views that would be regarded as politically correct nowadays. Future generations will probably find fault with today's trendy, well-to-do Britons like Boyd for some reason that may not be clear to us now.

It all does seem like "poor form," though. Taking the Bond job is something like an admission that a writer hasn't made it as a highbrow author -- that you're only at best a middlebrow and not a very creative or original one. Tacking your name onto Fleming's and Bond's for the money is bad enough, but angling for extra publicity by running down the franchise and its creator is definitely base and boorish.

[Young Werther]

Was

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG

sexist?

Now that's a Bond Caar!

[publius911]

William Boyd, the third writer in recent years to pen a new installment to the classic spy series.

What a horrible way to start.
Announce your "political Correctness," and be assured I will never read anything you write, moron!

And just for grins, I must add the obvious. YOU don't get to judge whether your writing is 'better.' Your readers do.
Maybe you need some time at a "Delusional' clinic.

[a fool in paradise]

More PussCyfying of mass media escapist “trash” pulp books and movies.