Posted on 02/27/2023 7:53:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
April 13, 1953 was a red letter the day in popular culture.
It was when Ian Fleming’s debut novel, Casino Royale, was published, and the world was introduced to James Bond.
The success of Casino Royale in the U.K. paved the way for subsequent works by Fleming, featuring Bond.
In 1961, President Kennedy named 'From Russia With Love' as one of his top ten favorite books in Life magazine. This endorsement made the book a bestseller in the U.S.
Some say it was Kennedy's way of linking himself to Bond and projecting himself as a Bond-like heroic leader taking on the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
In politics, perception often triumphs over reality. Alas, for Kennedy, that perception was never tested, he never survived to run for reelection.
The adaptation of Fleming’s novels to the big screen catapulted the character to legendary status and widened the readership of Fleming’s novels.
Fleming wrote twelve novels and two collections of short stories featuring Bond.
Bond remains a cultural icon to this day with twenty-seven hugely successful cinematic adaptations and myriad authors such as Raymond Benson, John Gardner, Kingsley Amis, and Sebastian Faulks taking over the literary Bond mantle.
Back to the Fleming novels.
Later this April, fresh installments of the Bond book series will be reissued to commemorate its 70th anniversary.
But this reissue has a difference.
The Telegraph reported that Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, which owns the literary rights to the novels, commissioned a “sensitivity” review of the Bond novels to find out if any of its contents failed to meet the contemporary standards of political correctness.
Following these reviews, changes have been made to the novels.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I remember reading the “revised edition” of Tom Sawyer as an eleven year old in the late sixties. But I got the genuine copy of Huck Finn a few years later. Night and day.
Wow. James Bond as short stories and Readers Digest Condensed Books. The world is going to he77 in a handbasket.
My stepfather would have sued them for this sacrilege.
Maybe Ians family should sue for plagiarism if they do that as they are taking his whole work, disecting it and making it essentially there own “new version mi us the author’s thoughts on certain subjects”. They are NOT creating a work that reflects what the writers said, but are rather bastardizing the work, and making it their own version that they have declared “safe” for the public.
Leave their works alone! If it offends someone, then ignore it.
Why burn books when you can ‘manipulate’ them? This is a trend that should be clipped in the bud.
I was watching a YouTube video hosted by a twentysomething female and when she heard, apparently for the first time, the expression “blue-eyed soul” her face immediately screwed up in that Uh oh way we e come to expect from snowflakes and the words “problematic sixties phrase” appeared at the bottom of the screen. Blue eyed soul. Geez. And it’s fast and automatic. Not a second lapsed between the words and her reaction. A little scary to see. These people are PROGRAMMED.
There are a number of torrents available for the Bond Book series. Preserve them while you can.
Nah. Fascists like to burn books not revise them.
Disaster in the making
Pussy Galore becomes pretty kitty
old books and CD’s of Bond movies.
I still have a full set of the novels in paperback format (I started reading them in high school). I also have several of them as ebooks. I wonder if the available ebook versions have already been stealth edited?
Still too patriarchal. Her new name should reflect her intelligence and freedom from men, not her physical attributes. Probably best to give her an African name since just being white makes her suspect.
Has anyone else noticed that You Tube and public buildings have been suddenly besieged with re-mastered versions of classic songs?
Re-mastered means that a band or an individual do not own the rights to their original hit song or album.
The original artists can record new versions of their old classic songs, but they cannot legally sound identical to the original recording.
Taylor Swift is currently in a years long dispute with her former manager over ownership of her first four or six albums.
The sound track in my two local grocery stores is now 100% re-mastered versions. Same issue with my You Tube play list. About 10% of the classic tunes on my play list have been replaced by new re-mastered versions.
100% of the re-mastered songs I have heard are clearly inferior to the original recordings.
I assume the re-mastered recordings cost less to play than the original classics.
Woke liberals are fascists.
>I wonder if the available ebook versions have already been stealth edited?
Possible but unlikely as the torrents are a decade old. There are also book sites that have them and are dated in the early 2000s.
I’ve read most of the Bond novels over the years, but don’t currently own any. I guess I’ll have to start collecting the older editions. Not off Amazon, though; I just took a look and the prices are frightening. Is the word out among book dealers already?
What about Alotta Fagina.
I see a run on used book stores to gobble up old books while you still can get them.
Amazon will ban their sale like they did with old editions of Dr. Seuss.
GREAT question...a reallll journalist would ask
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