diy@sb6.UUCP (D. I. Young) (01/31/86)
Can anyone send me the chronological order of the James Bond novels by Fleming. It's been a long long long time since I read them, lost all my papaerbacks, and would like to reread them. Thanks in advance. P.S. Can anyone give me the names and opinions about any other Bond stories written by other authors
billw@felix.UUCP (02/06/86)
D. I. Young writes: >Can anyone send me the chronological order of the James Bond novels by Fleming. >It's been a long long long time since I read them, lost all my papaerbacks, and >would like to reread them. Thanks in advance. > >P.S. Can anyone give me the names and opinions about any other Bond stories >written by other authors Well, here's my attempt: James Bond series by Ian Fleming Title Book Film ----------------------------- ---- ---- Casino Royale 1954 1967 Live and Let Die 1955 1973 Moonraker 1955 1979 Diamonds Are Forever 1956 1971 From Russia With Love 1957 1963 Dr. No 1958 1962 Goldfinger 1959 1964 Thunderball 1961 1965 The Spy Who Loved Me 1962 1977 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1963 1969 You Only Live Twice 1964 1967 The Man With the Golden Gun 1965 1974 Octopussy 1966 1983 The last book is more of a collection of short stories than anything else, of which _Octopussy_ is one as well as (I not sure of this) _Never Say Never Again_ (the movie of which is a remake of Thunderball). As for other authors, I only know of recent works by Martin(?) Gardner: Licence Renewed For Special Services Icebreaker (one more that I can't remember) In my opinion, only the first two are worth reading, and then only if you like the James Bond movies. They certainly aren't as good as Fleming's. I think there were some other Bond books by someone else, but I have no idea whom. Does anyone else know? =============================================================================== Regards, Bill Weinberger ucbvax!trwrb!felix!billw ===============================================================================
steiner@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Dave Steiner) (02/07/86)
The Gardner book that you couldn't remember is called ROLE OF HONOR.
There is a Bond book by Robert Markham called COLONEL SUN. I don't
know the date offhand but it was before the Gardner books.
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arpa: Steiner@RUTGERS or Steiner@RED.RUTGERS.EDUmarko@tekecs.UUCP (Mark O'Shea) (02/10/86)
For what it's worth. All of the books in the list after and including "The Spy Who Loved Me" were published after Fleming's death and there was a controversy at the time that "The Spy..." was not Fleming's work. I don't remember what happened after that. I do know that except for "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" There is a subtle style change in the later books. I always believed they were not Flemings work because of that. Mark O'Shea
dnichols@ti-csl (02/10/86)
You left out For Your Eyes Only, which is also a collection of
short stories. It was published in 1960. I'm not sure of the
movie date, but it was the one before Octopussy.
See my separate posting to this board.
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He o shite shiri-tsubome!chk@purdue.UUCP (Chuck Koelbel) (02/11/86)
In article <866@felix.UUCP>, billw@felix.UUCP writes: > James Bond series by Ian Fleming > > Title Book Film > ----------------------------- ---- ---- > Casino Royale 1954 1967 > : > : > Octopussy 1966 1983 > > The last book is more of a collection of short stories than anything else, of > which _Octopussy_ is one as well as (I not sure of this) _Never Say Never > Again_ (the movie of which is a remake of Thunderball). > =============================================================================== > Regards, Bill Weinberger ucbvax!trwrb!felix!billw > =============================================================================== There was also one other short story collection: _For_Your_Eyes_Only_. I don't know the date of the book or film. The movie used about 4 scenes from different stories at different points and dreamt up a plot to go around them. (Which was ok, since the original stories weren't connected.) Overall, I thought the book was good, but not great. Chuck Koelbel