A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading The Man with the Golden Gun
The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Sanditon. Weir of Hermiston. The great unfinished novels offer a certain mystique and allure; a...
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Celebrating 25 Years of my Favourite Guilty Pleasure: Volcano
There’s something comforting about watching a disaster movie from 25 years ago. Sure, people might be dying and a city’s...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading You Only Live Twice
As with most of Ian Fleming’s James Bond stories, You Only Live Twice begins in medias res, but for the...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
The opening chapter of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is called “Seascape with Figures”, and it’s hard to think of...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading The Spy Who Loved Me
Ian Fleming doesn’t want you to read The Spy Who Loved Me. He blocked a paperback edition being published during...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading Thunderball
Nine books into the series, Ian Fleming gains a sense of humour. The James Bond novels up to this point...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading For Your Eyes Only
The eighth book in the original Ian Fleming run of James Bond adventures differs from the previous seven. Instead of...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading Goldfinger
Goldfinger marks a concerted effort by Ian Fleming to humanise his literary spy, James Bond. Despite what some say about...
My Failed Quest to Love Willow
I should like Willow. In fact, I should love Willow. It’s fantasy from the mind of George Lucas, back from...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading Dr No
Keeping Bond’s fate a mystery after the cliffhanger ending of From Russia with Love, Dr No begins with M arriving...
