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007InVT wrote: My clear choice for this right now is Charles Cumming. He's ex-MI5; has written cracking spy thrillers with 'Trinity Six'; 'A Foreign Country'; 'Typhoon' and 'A Spy By Nature'; he's a fan of Fleming and all the great spy novelist…
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@007InVT, no I haven't! For some reason, I've blinked and missed this but I will be certainly reading it now! Thanks a million for bringing this to my attention!
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I just finished my FIRST Graham Greene novel called 'The Human Factor'. It was great - straight up MI6 spy novel, in the mould of Le Carre. Itching to read more Greene and possibly TSWCIFTG. [/quote] Congratulations @007InVT on getting into Grah…
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Revelator wrote: Doctor No is definitely one of the better Fleming novels. @Revelator, what a brilliant summation. Bravo! Although I never had Dr.NO as my best ever Fleming. That privilege goes to either OHMSS or FRWL (they are interchangeabl…
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Pierce2Daniel wrote: So what do we think? The novel has also been fairly accused of racism especially regarding the characterisation of Quarrel. But nonetheless I think it's clear that Bond is wounded by the death of his friend and even at th…
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4EverBonded wrote: Just posted this on another reading thread, but I wanted to share it here, too: Great news for fans of the book, I Am Pilgrim! This has been my favorite book to recommend in the past year. So well written and exciting. The…
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4EverBonded wrote: Just posted this on another reading thread, but I wanted to share it here, too: Great news for fans of the book, I Am Pilgrim! This has been my favorite book to recommend in the past year. So well written and exciting. The…
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I have just finished reading "Ratlines" by Stuart Neville and would heartily recommend it. Set in Ireland in '63 it features Lieutenant Albert Ryan, the Directorate of Intelligence, who is asked to investigate the murder of three murdered Nazis who…
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DarthDimi wrote: I'm surprised, @Villiers53, that you and @Bentley share the same IP address... Plus, I've been referred to as a fascist, I've corrected flawed spelling, and I've tried to explain, for the final time I might add, that we will go…
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Pierce2Daniel wrote: SaintMark wrote: pachazo wrote: I think the bottom line is that Moneypenny is just not an interesting enough character to carry a story much less an entire series. We got to see more of her than we ever have before in …
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DarthDimi wrote: Bentley wrote: Why Are Literary Spin Off Ideas Verboten? Wow. German. I'm impressed... Bentley wrote: Don't be put off by the literary STATSI? ... or not, because it's 'Stasi', not 'Statsi'. But never mind. …
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ggl007 wrote: Well, we have to put some space here... I don´t deny any possible Bruce´s influence on Fleming, but do we know anything concrete? It is quite known that Fleming had a huge library, was Bruce there? For example: in this interes…
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Bentley wrote: Villiers53 wrote: Bounine wrote: Most interesting. Based on what is said, these books sound fascinating and I'd love to get a hold of them. @Bounine and @4EverBonded, Corgi editions of both "Deep Freeze" & "Live Wi…
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Bounine wrote: Most interesting. Based on what is said, these books sound fascinating and I'd love to get a hold of them. @Bounine and @4EverBonded, Corgi editions of both "Deep Freeze" & "Live Wire" are up on eBay right now. Prices aren…
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SHF1 wrote: I just finished "Solo" and I did not read any reviews until now. I agree it is hard to satisfy Bond fans. First thought, the ending is the issue. A drug ring and oil. I was waiting for SMERSH, , a ICBM secret base. Second, Not enough "…
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Bounine wrote: timmer wrote: TheWizardOfIce wrote: Very entertaining review and this whole section sums up what is wrong with this modern approach. What we want from a Bond novel is unashamed sex, snobbery and sadism but IFP are too scared…
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It is probably too dramatic to say that SOLO has done for literary Bond but I do think that the celebrity trilogy has seen off any chance of a quality literary return. Many, myself included, have drawn endless comparisons between these lack lustre …
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Bentley wrote: TheWizardOfIce wrote: [ There's nothing wrong with my tasteometer @villiers but you might want to seek medical attention before you sit down for another meal as your taste buds are so off you could easily wolf down a nutritio…
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Bentley wrote: Villiers53 wrote: I've just finished reading Stuart Neville's 'Ratlines' and would heartily recommend it. Set in '63 it has a fabulous plot about Ireland's complicity in hiding Nazis. It's tough, bloody but highly literate — i…
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I've just finished reading Stuart Neville's 'Ratlines' and would heartily recommend it. Set in '63 it has a fabulous plot about Ireland's complicity in hiding Nazis. It's tough, bloody but highly literate — it is a heady cocktail of espionage and …
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TheWizardOfIce wrote: Villiers53 wrote: @Bounine, the value added is the reboot of an iconic character by portraying her in a modern idiom as a young, Mi6 recruit assisting both in the field and HO environments. One of many interesting charac…
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0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: I hope she changes her hairstyle for Bond 24; I'm not a fan. Evidently it's mutual. Moneypenny isn't very keen on your Barnett@)BradyM0Bondfanatic7. Perhaps you should meet and decide a hairstyle strategy?
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@Bounine, the value added is the reboot of an iconic character by portraying her in a modern idiom as a young, Mi6 recruit assisting both in the field and HO environments. One of many interesting character developments in "Skyfall" that Mendes will…
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4EverBonded wrote: Villiers53 wrote: Bounine wrote: The fact that it seems like Mendes will have Moneypenny out in the field "kicking arse" again is by far the worse news regarding Bond 24 for me so far. I don't mind the emotional stuff…
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Bounine wrote: The fact that it seems like Mendes will have Moneypenny out in the field "kicking arse" again is by far the worse news regarding Bond 24 for me so far. I don't mind the emotional stuff but now that we've had it for three films th…
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As I've posted elsewhere, I discovered literary Bond in 1963 and owe Fleming a huge debt. He was the one who really introduced me to reading for pleasure and made me dream about the possibilities that life could offer and although the Dr.No movie wa…
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SaintMark wrote: I found the Moneypenny diaries superior to the Celebrity trilogy. Absolutely - they were original but embodied the quality nostalgia associated with this times and are head and shoulders above the celebrity trilogy disaster…
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I've recently read the "The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter" and "How A Gunman Says Goodbye". They are the first two in a tartan noir trilogy by first time Scottish author Malcolm Mackay. Mackay is the new, hip kid on the UK thriller scene and he h…
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Looks like it to me. Ralph Lauren has one and his son often drives it around the back country near Greenwich CT. Hellishly difficult to drive but visually very cool.
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007InVT wrote: I've actually picked up William Boyd's Ordinary Thunderstorms from the library, his espionage thriller. I'm enjoying it and I haven't read Solo yet, so am fairly objective about him thus far. I enjoyed 'Restless' too. "O…
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