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Again, this thread is not about homosexuality or if Bond is a muslim. I think Boyd misses Fleming point in "Live and Let Die".
1 posted on 09/22/2013 8:55:07 AM PDT by Perdogg
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2 posted on 09/22/2013 8:57:52 AM PDT by Perdogg (Cruz-Paul 2016)
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To: Perdogg

But what is Boyd?


3 posted on 09/22/2013 9:00:42 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of the Muslim Brotherhood))
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To: Perdogg
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.


4 posted on 09/22/2013 9:02:23 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Perdogg

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.


6 posted on 09/22/2013 9:03:39 AM PDT by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Perdogg

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


7 posted on 09/22/2013 9:07:51 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Perdogg

I gave you a green arrow. :)


9 posted on 09/22/2013 9:14:38 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Perdogg

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


10 posted on 09/22/2013 9:16:07 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Perdogg
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.

13 posted on 09/22/2013 9:24:42 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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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?


14 posted on 09/22/2013 9:34:19 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: Perdogg
Ian Fleming 'was sexist, racist and sadistic'

Aaaand loving it!

16 posted on 09/22/2013 9:35:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statemet of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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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.

21 posted on 09/22/2013 9:57:45 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: Perdogg

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


22 posted on 09/22/2013 9:58:12 AM PDT by MamaB
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To: Perdogg

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


23 posted on 09/22/2013 10:04:21 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Supporting Communism is never Conservatism)
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feh...
25 posted on 09/22/2013 10:18:47 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Perdogg
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.

28 posted on 09/22/2013 10:50:28 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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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.

29 posted on 09/22/2013 11:30:16 AM PDT by x
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To: Perdogg
Was

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG

sexist?

Now that's a Bond Caar!

30 posted on 09/22/2013 11:32:26 AM PDT by Young Werther (Julius Caesar said "Quae cum ita sunt. Since these things are so.".)
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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.

32 posted on 09/22/2013 12:56:00 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: Perdogg; Revolting cat!

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


33 posted on 09/22/2013 2:18:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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