Roger Moore Sucked In "For Your Eyes Only."

[The Navigator]

Definately OHMSS, and read that before You Only Live Twice.

 

[antsman41]

Im 25 now some of my earliest memories were watching For Your Eyes Only with my dad on VHS taped off TV... after that intro with Blofeld I remember everytime we would drive somewhere and go over a bridge my dad would say "Its a long way down Mr Bond" in a sinister voice... then when I was like 12 I got really into the game Goldeneye so my dad who is a massive Bond fan bought me all the movies on VHS for my my birthday.. best gift i've ever gotten to this day. (Now i got them all on dvd of course)

Then a few weaks later he came home from a flea market with like six original 60's pan books prints of Ian Fleming Bond novels. Casino Royale, Moonraker, The Spy Who Loved Me, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice & Diamonds Are Forever. Those were the first novels I enjoyed reading before that it was all comic books for me, Sad thing is I've yet to dive into the rest of the Ian Flemind Bond novels... I really want to pick up Live and Let Die & OHMSS... Maybe I will on Friday any suggestions on which are the best besides the 6 I have?

Nice story, you should just stock up on them all. They are all great, except for maybe The Spy Who Loved Me.

My rankings for Bond novels...

Amazing;
LALD
CR
Dr. No
DAF
Goldfinger
Golden Gun

good;
Moonraker
OHMSS
FRWL
FYEO

ok;
YOLT
Thunderball
(Octopussy)

 

[antsman41]

Definately OHMSS, and read that before You Only Live Twice.

I did it this way for continuity;

CR
LALD
Moonraker
DAF
FRWL
Dr. No
Goldfinger
(FYEO)
Thunderball
(Octopussy)
OHMSS Chapters 1-5
TSWLM
OHMSS Chapters 6-20
YOLT
TMWTGG

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Dalton looks most like Hoagy Carmichael

I always felt physically, Dalton looked most like Fleming's vision of James Bond.

Flemings image of Bond by comic strip artists that he approved.

Timothy Dalton as Bond

 

[The Navigator]

That Bond looks more like Peter Cushing than Timothy Dalton.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Not really. I don't see it. Maybe its because of the nose and because Cushing's a bit skinnier in the face.

 

[The Navigator]

Not really. I don't see it. Maybe its because of the nose and because Cushing's a bit skinnier in the face.

And the hair, and the lack of butt chin.

 

[antsman41]

I always thought that comic strip pic of Bond was basically a British take on Neal Adam's Bruce Wayne.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I always thought that comic strip pic of Bond was basically a British take on Neal Adam's Bruce Wayne.

Except it was drawn about twenty years beforehand.

 

[antsman41]

Except it was drawn about twenty years beforehand.

I know but it has that look. Well, I guess we need to go see where Neal got sum inspiration...

 

[Ledlunar]

I did it this way for continuity;

CR
LALD
Moonraker
DAF
FRWL
Dr. No
Goldfinger
(FYEO)
Thunderball
(Octopussy)
OHMSS Chapters 1-5
TSWLM
OHMSS Chapters 6-20
YOLT
TMWTGG

Thanks!

well Im all about continuity So I think i will re read casino royale and pick up Live and Let Die and From Russia with love since I can bridge them all together with the ones I do own...

I really love the film OHMSS so I might get that one too.. does The Spy Who Loved Me take place during OHMSS?

 

[ChickenScratch]

Thanks!
well Im all about continuity So I think i will re read casino royale and pick up Live and Let Die and From Russia with love since I can bridge them all together with the ones I do own...
I really love the film OHMSS so I might get that one too.. does The Spy Who Loved Me take place during OHMSS?

You can't go wrong with any of them man.

Right now I'm in the middle of an epic whole series reread in chronological (to Jame's life) order. So I started with Charlie Higson's Young Bond, then Fleming's original series, Kingsley Amis (writing as Robert Markham) Colonel Sun, Sebastian Faulk's Devil May Care, I'm almost half way through my favorite part of the series, that being John Gardner's contribution (Just finished Icebreaker). After the Gardners I'll be onto the Bensons, I'm saving Westbrook's Moneypenny Diaries for after because there are some time line issues in there and I don't want them to screw up the flow.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

You can't go wrong with any of them man.

that being John Gardner's contribution (Just finished Icebreaker).

I have saw his books when they came out in the stores years back & always thought Fleming should be the only one who wrote for Bond. But since more then 1 actor played him, I thought why not another writer. How is Gardner's contributions?

 

[ChickenScratch]

I actually prefer some of Gardner's books to some of Fleming's. If I were to do a top ten list of Bond books it would just about be equal amounts the two of them.

Gardner's great contribution was his knowledge of modern spy-craft, his Bond seemed more real. Consequently, the plots, crosses and double crosses felt more real. When he got weird, it did get weird too like Fleming. He also knew a lot about health, fitness and modern training methods, in Fleming's work Bond's regimen is always glossed over. With Gardner he talks about going and training with SAS or the Marines for a month between missions, about his training in martial arts, ect. With Fleming we just had to accept he learned boxing and judo in school and ninjitsu (in 2 weeks!) in YOLT.

Gardner kept the technology down to earth too, he was meticulous in his research. His Bond drove a Saab named The Silver Beast which I think is the most awsome of Bond cars. http://commanderbond.net/2284/the-silver-beast.html http://commanderbond.net/2298/the-man-who-taught-007-to-drive-on-ice.html http://www.john-gardner.com/gardner-benson-bond-1 http://www.john-gardner.com/gardner-benson-bond-2

 

[Panthro]

That Bond looks more like Peter Cushing than Timothy Dalton.

My God! That Bond does look like Peter Cushing!

And with that receding hairline, why did they ever bother making Sean Connery wear the hair piece?

Funny to bring up Neal Adams Bruce Wayne/Batman, back in the early 80s I actually could have seen Timothy Dalton as Bruce Wayne/Batman. But that was a long time ago.