I've printed out the Top 111 list and keep it in my wallet,
in case I'm in a used book shop and trying to decide what to
be looking for (my preliminary thesis has been turned in
(whew), I'm down to about 400 emails in my inbox, and I'm
more than halfway through the Travis McGee series, so I'll be
looking for more material soon.
That being the case, I noticed that James Bond ranked fairly
high on the list. I read a few of these years and years
ago--my last memory of reading Bond was having two novels
temporarily confiscated when I entered basic training in
1986, and I don't even remember which ones they were. I
remember at one point reading one--Moonraker, I think?--and
thinking that it was nothing like the film (the reverse would
be a more accurate statement, I now realize). Later, when I
saw the film Goldeneye, it seemed to me that elements of that
film's plot were taken from Moonraker, but I could very well
be mistaken.
Anyway, are these novels best read in order? Do the
post-Flemming authors measure up? I would expect later
authors, knowing what kind of franchise they were writing
for, would tend to write novels more easily converted to
scripts--yes or no?
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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