Which Bond novel are you currently reading?

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• QBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.

  October 29 Posts: 15,429

  I didn't know Édith Piaf was referenced in the novels. Andrea Anders can be seen reading Piaf's biography aboard the hydrofoil.
• GoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà

  October 29 Posts: 7,892

  QBranch wrote: »

  I didn't know Édith Piaf was referenced in the novels. Andrea Anders can be seen reading Piaf's biography aboard the hydrofoil.

  
  She isn't mentioned by name, but it's a song of hers that Tiffany is playing.
  
  Didn't know that about Miss Anders, very nice :)
• Reflsin2bourbons

  October 29 Posts: 546

  Edith Piaf's La vie en rose also showed up in Casino Royale; Bond turns it off in DAF due to bad memories of Vesper.
• Dragonpol The Crazy World of David Dragonpol

  October 29 edited October 29 Posts: 18,941

  Ian Fleming also chose Édith Piaf's La Vie en Rose as one of his favourite records when he appeared on BBC Radio's Desert Island Discs in June 1963:
  
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009y5b3
• Revelator

  October 29 edited October 29 Posts: 2,997

  Dragonpol wrote: »

  Ian Fleming also chose Édith Piaf's La Vie en Rose as one of his favourite records when he appeared on BBC Radio's Desert Island Discs in June 1963:
  
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009y5b3

  
  I would just add that while only nine minutes of the program exists, the full transcript can be read here, and the post also includes YouTube links to Fleming's selections. No one will be surprised to find that Fleming was a fan of the Ink Spots.
• Reflsin2bourbons

  October 31 Posts: 546

  https://jamesbondwatches.com/ian-fleming-specified-cheap-expandable-james-bond-watches/
  
  I mentioned this link in another thread but I found Fleming's response quite interesting. Because the letter writer is indeed right: a Rolex probably wouldn't stop due to getting a little wet.
  
  Bond did wear Rolex before and after, so Fleming's reasoning doesn't exactly stand up either: Bond actually uses a Rolex for the purpose of fighting in OHMSS and when that breaks he asks Q Branch for another one.
  
  It probably means nothing as Fleming didn't want to concede to the point to the writer but still amusing to picture Bond wearing the equivalent of a Timex or something.