For Your Eyes Only...

[John Newman]

> On May 25, 2017, at 2:28 AM, Steve Kinney <admin at pilobilus.net> wrote:
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>> On 05/24/2017 08:44 PM, Razer wrote:
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>> Ps. I wouldn't suppose a single one of you has ever actually read one of
>> Fleming's books.
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> Only just all of them, even Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.  :D
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> "Once is misfortune, twice is happenstance, three times is enemy action."
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> 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.
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> :o)
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> 


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.


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