Posted on 09/06/2023 7:54:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
If Ian Fleming were still alive, he’d take a flamethrower to these degenerates.
I read John Gardner's Bond novels many years ago...Many people dislike his books...I thought they were fine...Right now, I am re-reading one of his Bond books...NO DEALS, MR BOND...
They stopped using the Fleming novels as source material long ago.
You Only Live Twice merely used the Japanese setting. On Her Majesty's Secret Service was fairly faithful to the book, but Diamonds Are Forever again merely used the Vegas setting.
The Spy Who Loved Me ditched the novel, only using the title. And that was 46 years ago.
Since then the films merely took the titles and an occasional random idea. For Your Eyes Only (film) and License to Kill (film) both borrowed from Live and Let Die (novel).
I did read Colonel Sun (1968) and James Bond: The Authorized Biography (1973), but those were before even John Gardner.
Yeah
Really
Me too
I loved Kingsly Amis’ “Colonel Sun.” He was the first author who tried to capture Ian Fleming’s “voice.” Always wondered why they never made it into a film, as the plot’s pretty good. I’ll always remember John Pearson’s Bond “biography. I read it and his Fleming biography and saw “Live and Let Die” in 1973. It was the first Bond movie I saw on my own when I was 13.
Pierson tried to establish Bond as being active before WW 2, and had to deal with the age established by Fleming, but it was a stretch.
Indeed, Fleming didn’t want the source material of Spy Who Loved Me made into a movie (other than the title).
Have you read THE SPY WHO LOVED ME the novel? It is written from a point of view of a French-Canadian woman...James Bond deals with two thugs who try to kill her...
I also read the two Christopher Wood novelizations. He gives a bit of a back story to Jaws.
I read the first Gardner Bond book, and bought the second (which I never read). After the Gardner book, I stopped buying new Bond novels.
Second Gardner Bond book is FOR SPECIAL SERVICES...
I actually liked the novel...I still remember the plot of the novel...I read that book a long time ago...I borrowed the book from L.A. City Library...
In the novel, Bond works with daughter of Felix Leiter... He has to deal with SPECTRE...
That disgusted me so much, I decided against reading the book. Some 40 years later, I still remember my disgust.
Leiter's daughter...It was cringe worthy...I understand your decision in that case...
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