The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => The Library => Topic started by: Pastis on June 15, 2008, 03:57:08 PM
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Ian Fleming died in '64, his last works were published posthumously in '65 and '66 - both Bond novels. A little research and memory determines that Sebastian Faulks has set this "new" Bond novel in 1967. Apparently he didn't want to write it and turned down the offer several times; I'm so glad he finally agreed.
The thing is I'm only halfway through and it's thrilling both senses and memory. I must have just turned a teenager when family and friends all went to see this new film that everyone was talking about, Dr No. It was one of those seminal moments (read John Walsh's "Are you talking to me?", thanks Nick). A couple of years later I remember receiving "The Man with the Golden Gun" as a birthday present. It was a time when fiction might become reality, and very influential.
I have to wonder whether folks who didn't live through that time will get the accuracy of the references. Let me give you an example:
Bond is being driven through Paris by a woman he's barely met...
Scarlett swept on to the Champs-Élysées and sank her right foot. 'You have to take these chaps on', she said. 'These French drivers, I mean. Play them at their own game. There's no point in being a shrinking violet.'
'Why did you go for the Alpine, not the Tiger?' said Bond
At this point I remembered back to our neighbour's wife who drove a white Alpine. I preferred the Tiger because it had more power. My old man reckoned that for her the Alpine was safer as she probably couldn't handle the racier model... I read on...
'My father found it for me. Second-hand. The Tiger's bigger, isn't it?'
'It has a V8 engine', said Bond, 'but the Sunbeam chassis can't really handle that much torque. Anyway, you don't need it. Not the way you drive.'
Oh yes, just as I remember it. Anyway, so far so good... and a happy088
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Ian Fleming died in '64, his last works were published posthumously in '65 and '66 - both Bond novels. A little research and memory determines that Sebastian Faulks has set this "new" Bond novel in 1967. Apparently he didn't want to write it and turned down the offer several times; I'm so glad he finally agreed.
The thing is I'm only halfway through and it's thrilling both senses and memory. I must have just turned a teenager when family and friends all went to see this new film that everyone was talking about, Dr No. It was one of those seminal moments (read John Walsh's "Are you talking to me?", thanks Nick). A couple of years later I remember receiving "The Man with the Golden Gun" as a birthday present. It was a time when fiction might become reality, and very influential.
I have to wonder whether folks who didn't live through that time will get the accuracy of the references. Let me give you an example:
Bond is being driven through Paris by a woman he's barely met...
Scarlett swept on to the Champs-Élysées and sank her right foot. 'You have to take these chaps on', she said. 'These French drivers, I mean. Play them at their own game. There's no point in being a shrinking violet.'
'Why did you go for the Alpine, not the Tiger?' said Bond
At this point I remembered back to our neighbour's wife who drove a white Alpine. I preferred the Tiger because it had more power. My old man reckoned that for her the Alpine was safer as she probably couldn't handle the racier model... I read on...
'My father found it for me. Second-hand. The Tiger's bigger, isn't it?'
'It has a V8 engine', said Bond, 'but the Sunbeam chassis can't really handle that much torque. Anyway, you don't need it. Not the way you drive.'
Oh yes, just as I remember it. Anyway, so far so good... and a happy088
I'll get it ordered then... along with a load of Humph stuff...
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My Amazon voucher is only for twenty quid ..... slow down chaps or I shall have sleepless nights worrying whether I have made the right choice. scared2:
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My Amazon voucher is only for twenty quid ..... slow down chaps or I shall have sleepless nights worrying whether I have made the right choice. scared2:
The pub will get a quid out of that then! cloud9:
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My Amazon voucher is only for twenty quid ..... slow down chaps or I shall have sleepless nights worrying whether I have made the right choice. scared2:
The pub will get a quid out of that then! cloud9:
So I guess I'll have to decide what I want, pm you the details, you then flag it up on the iste and I click n buy. All this 'cos there is other Humph stuff I would prefer to the ones you have shown.
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My Amazon voucher is only for twenty quid ..... slow down chaps or I shall have sleepless nights worrying whether I have made the right choice. scared2:
I was going to say that by Monday night I'll have it up on Amazon for a good 2nd hand price... but, earlier today I was having a chat with my eldest nephew who's taking his GCSE's. I mentioned that I was reading a new Bond novel... the silence at the other end of the phone spoke volumes...
"Yeah, we've got them all on DVD"
"No, it's a book, a novel"
"Oh, cool"
"You might like to read it after I've finished it... when you've done your exams?"
"Yeah, ok, d'you wanna speak to Mum?"
doh: I'm going to take great delight in hitting him over the head with it. It's quite thick. The head and the book, that is...
::)
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My Amazon voucher is only for twenty quid ..... slow down chaps or I shall have sleepless nights worrying whether I have made the right choice. scared2:
I was going to say that by Monday night I'll have it up on Amazon for a good 2nd hand price... but, earlier today I was having a chat with my eldest nephew who's taking his GCSE's. I mentioned that I was reading a new Bond novel... the silence at the other end of the phone spoke volumes...
"Yeah, we've got them all on DVD"
"No, it's a book, a novel"
"Oh, cool"
"You might like to read it after I've finished it... when you've done your exams?"
"Yeah, ok, d'you wanna speak to Mum?"
doh: I'm going to take great delight in hitting him over the head with it. It's quite thick. The head and the book, that is...
::)
lol: lol: lol:
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My Amazon voucher is only for twenty quid ..... slow down chaps or I shall have sleepless nights worrying whether I have made the right choice. scared2:
The pub will get a quid out of that then! cloud9:
So I guess I'll have to decide what I want, pm you the details, you then flag it up on the iste and I click n buy. All this 'cos there is other Humph stuff I would prefer to the ones you have shown.
or you could set up the link in the gift thread with your new found geeky skills! whistle:
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Hey! Come on ..... for a teenager that's a lorra words. Mine would have said "Whatever" and then there would have been a long period punctuated by sighs and the sounds of chewing before she said ~ "whojuwannaspeakto?"
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My Amazon voucher is only for twenty quid ..... slow down chaps or I shall have sleepless nights worrying whether I have made the right choice. scared2:
The pub will get a quid out of that then! cloud9:
So I guess I'll have to decide what I want, pm you the details, you then flag it up on the iste and I click n buy. All this 'cos there is other Humph stuff I would prefer to the ones you have shown.
or you could set up the link in the gift thread with your new found geeky skills! whistle:
I could but I haven't made that work yet ~ despite three attempts redface:
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My Amazon voucher is only for twenty quid ..... slow down chaps or I shall have sleepless nights worrying whether I have made the right choice. scared2:
The pub will get a quid out of that then! cloud9:
So I guess I'll have to decide what I want, pm you the details, you then flag it up on the iste and I click n buy. All this 'cos there is other Humph stuff I would prefer to the ones you have shown.
or you could set up the link in the gift thread with your new found geeky skills! whistle:
I could but I haven't made that work yet ~ despite three attempts redface:
I'll show you... ;)
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I'm not into Bond myself, but for those that are...
http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_10001_10051_99190_100_500020__category