On May 25, 2017, at 2:28 AM, Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
On 05/24/2017 08:44 PM, Razer wrote:
Ps. I wouldn't suppose a single one of you has ever actually read one of Fleming's books.
Only just all of them, even Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. :D
"Once is misfortune, twice is happenstance, three times is enemy action."
The first Bond flick was OK, but alas... Eon went the way of maximum marketing and before it was over with, selling the Playboy Lifestyle was the whole purpose of making Bond movies. If anyone here digs spy fiction at all, The Night Manager is well worth seeing: It takes a miniseries to tell a LeCarre story.
But none of the above is a patch on L. Fletcher Prouty's magnum opiate, The Secret Team.
:o)
I've actually never read Fleming, just sort of assumed it was way cheesy based on the movies? I have read most of LeCarre's stuff and a few other spy genre guys like Len Deighton and Frederick Forsyth... The Karla trilogy is the best, for my money.