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Control
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| | Subject: Worthwhile Continuation Novels? Sat Dec 22, 2012 11:02 pm | |
| I haven't read any of the continuation novels, but have heard plenty of bad things about them. I've read bits of Deaver's book, but didn't like it. I saw a hardcover edition of Faulk's novel on a book shelf for $1.99 a few months back and never bothered picking it up.  Could any of you recommend some of the best continuation novels to me? I'd like to at least give a few of them a try.
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Hilly
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| | Subject: Re: Worthwhile Continuation Novels? Sat Dec 22, 2012 11:43 pm | |
| The first couple of Gardner's perhaps. Licence Revoked, For Special Services and Icebreaker.
I've only read Zero Minus Ten of Benson's (well, TND novelisation too) but Gardner is who I'd stick to. I read them as a kid in and around the Fleming's which probably didn't help. Deaver's is a man named Bond and could be anything. Faulks is a mess or at least one for me.
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| | Subject: Re: Worthwhile Continuation Novels? Sun Dec 23, 2012 12:10 am | |
| Colonel Sun by Kingsley Amis and The Authorised Biography by Pearson |
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| | Subject: Re: Worthwhile Continuation Novels? Sun Dec 23, 2012 12:34 am | |
| Real question should be "are there any worthwhile continuation novels?". |
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| | Subject: Re: Worthwhile Continuation Novels? Sun Dec 23, 2012 12:46 am | |
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| | Subject: Re: Worthwhile Continuation Novels? Sun Dec 23, 2012 2:13 am | |
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| | Subject: Re: Worthwhile Continuation Novels? Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:44 am | |
| Colonel Sun is quite good. Although it plods a bit, actually a lot, compared to Fleming, but it's still quite good.
The best of the bunch is Pearson's Authorized Biography, 1973, although it's an alternative Bondverse, but then Fleming did kind of tease the concept with his OBIT reference to a "a series of popular books came to be written around him by a personal friend and former colleague of James Bond (hmm, Bond and Fleming were actual friends). If the quality of these books, or their degree of veracity, had been any higher,(if I, Fleming, do say so myself),the author certainly would have been prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act."
OK then. Pearson though, takes this concept and runs with it. We get to meet the "real" James Bond.
Otherwise I'd say the 14 Gardner books are quite readable. You'll have plenty of fun ploughing through those. Lots of new villains, girls and guns.
Deaver's book is the worst. It should be burned. |
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| | Subject: Re: Worthwhile Continuation Novels? Sun Dec 23, 2012 3:43 pm | |
| Colonel Sun
Licence Renewed
Icebreaker
Nobody Lives For Ever
Scorpius
Win, Lose or Die
Brokenclaw
Zero Minus Ten
High Time to Kill
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| | Subject: Re: Worthwhile Continuation Novels? Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:50 pm | |
| I do like all the Gardner books. They would be fun to re-read in order again. |
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