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  • SomethingThatAteHimSomethingThatAteHim
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    Got the itch to reread some Fleming (still haven’t made my way to any of the continuation books — is Colonel Sun or Trigger Morris the advised path forward on that front?). Casino Royale was just a gripping as the first time. I love how contained and to the point it is, and it bristles with noirish atmosphere. I was worried I might find the final third a bit dull this time around but I actually found it quite moving.

    Halfway through LALD now, my third time with this one. I really enjoy how after the confines of CR Fleming let loose with a really expansive, swashbuckling adventure story. Up until Leiter gets chowed on a lot of the atmosphere in NY and the train is quite cozy and is very enjoyable to revisit, and then the rest of the book really turns the thumbscrews on you with some of Fleming’s most brutal action-suspense sequences. I always feel like Dr. No is something of a sister novel to LALD as they’re both probably the pulpiest Bond material Fleming put out.
  • AnotherZorinStoogeAnotherZorinStooge Bramhall (Irish)
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    Just fonished reading colonel sun

    Enjoyable romp
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    Posts: 7,467
    I just finished MR.

    Excellent read with some very tense chapters as well as an interesting end to the (pseudo)-romance with Gala in the very last chapter. I also loved to get to know M better.

    I do miss that exotic feeling though, which it can't really have by default.

    All in all, definitely very good, even though I don't think it'll ever be one of my very favourites.
  • ColonelAdamskiColonelAdamski UK
    edited May 6 Posts: 1,127
    SomethingThatAteHim wrote: »
    Got the itch to reread some Fleming (still haven’t made my way to any of the continuation books — is Colonel Sun or Trigger Morris the advised path forward on that front?).

    I think most people would say Colonel Sun, it's traditionally the 'go-to' book after Golden Gun. Though, if I'm honest, I think the continuation novel that's best read after Golden Gun is With A Mind to Kill, Horowitz's last Bond. I'd even go so far as to say that it improves TMWTGG, by explaining a lot of what GG didn't cover, regarding Bond's brain-washing. With a Mind to Kill is more of a follow up to GG than Colonel Sun, as far as I can remember. But you won't go wrong with either.

    Trigger Mortis was written to take place after Goldfinger in the Fleming chronology, (Bond is living with Pussy Galore in his London flat at the start of the book. And all the Fleming habits are there in that early chapter, down to the breakfast eggs and the correct time for the hot/cold shower. It really is a great tribute to the real world of James Bond). One day, I hope to get Horowitz to sign my Waterstones special edition.

    For my money, Horowitz and Amis are the authors who sit most comfortably alongside the Fleming books. They both are able to safely navigate the world of Bond that Fleming created.
  • SomethingThatAteHimSomethingThatAteHim
    Posts: 538
    ColonelAdamski wrote: »
    SomethingThatAteHim wrote: »
    Got the itch to reread some Fleming (still haven’t made my way to any of the continuation books — is Colonel Sun or Trigger Morris the advised path forward on that front?).

    I think most people would say Colonel Sun, it's traditionally the 'go-to' book after Golden Gun. Though, if I'm honest, I think the continuation novel that's best read after Golden Gun is With A Mind to Kill, Horowitz's last Bond. I'd even go so far as to say that it improves TMWTGG, by explaining a lot of what GG didn't cover, regarding Bond's brain-washing. With a Mind to Kill is more of a follow up to GG than Colonel Sun, as far as I can remember. But you won't go wrong with either.

    Trigger Mortis was written to take place after Goldfinger in the Fleming chronology, (Bond is living with Pussy Galore in his London flat at the start of the book. And all the Fleming habits are there in that early chapter, down to the breakfast eggs and the correct time for the hot/cold shower. It really is a great tribute to the real world of James Bond). One day, I hope to get Horowitz to sign my Waterstones special edition.

    For my money, Horowitz and Amis are the authors who sit most comfortably alongside the Fleming books. They both are able to safely navigate the world of Bond that Fleming created.

    Sounds like I can’t go wrong with either but you’ve piqued my interest in the Horowitz books.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,377
    SomethingThatAteHim wrote: »
    ColonelAdamski wrote: »
    SomethingThatAteHim wrote: »
    Got the itch to reread some Fleming (still haven’t made my way to any of the continuation books — is Colonel Sun or Trigger Morris the advised path forward on that front?).

    I think most people would say Colonel Sun, it's traditionally the 'go-to' book after Golden Gun. Though, if I'm honest, I think the continuation novel that's best read after Golden Gun is With A Mind to Kill, Horowitz's last Bond. I'd even go so far as to say that it improves TMWTGG, by explaining a lot of what GG didn't cover, regarding Bond's brain-washing. With a Mind to Kill is more of a follow up to GG than Colonel Sun, as far as I can remember. But you won't go wrong with either.

    Trigger Mortis was written to take place after Goldfinger in the Fleming chronology, (Bond is living with Pussy Galore in his London flat at the start of the book. And all the Fleming habits are there in that early chapter, down to the breakfast eggs and the correct time for the hot/cold shower. It really is a great tribute to the real world of James Bond). One day, I hope to get Horowitz to sign my Waterstones special edition.

    For my money, Horowitz and Amis are the authors who sit most comfortably alongside the Fleming books. They both are able to safely navigate the world of Bond that Fleming created.

    Sounds like I can’t go wrong with either but you’ve piqued my interest in the Horowitz books.
    I have to say it didn't cross my mind and reading With A Mind to Kill by Horowitz after The Man With the Golden Gun is an excellent idea. A good novel and very strong payoff.

    And following that with Colonel Sun by Kinsley Amis would also be right on time.


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