For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond
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Has anyone had a look at this yet? It's the companion piece to the exhibit at the War Museum isn't it?
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Maybe I'll just save up for the Roger Moore event at Pinewood in October!
Ditto. Unfortunately I bought it from Amazon and therefore did not preview it as I would do at the bookstore (all because I wanted to take advantage of the pre-purchase discount! Same thing happened with my purchase of the Ultimate Indy Jones Guide, but that's another story!)
It does have a lack of photos though I reserve judgement since I don't know exactly what Fleming personal effects are on display at the IWM and for all I know, what's in the book is the totality of it all.
Macintyre caveats in the preface that he didn’t intend to duplicate Griswold’s historical documentation of Bond’s fictional world in his “Annotations and Chronologies,” which I would agree with since that book is painstakingly detailed to a “t”. However, Macintyre also included in the same caveat Chancellor’s “James Bond The Man and His World” and I disagree since he went on to state that he purposed to explore how Fleming’s life and experiences shaped the Bond character, which precisely is what Chancellor’s book was all about, except that work for me was truly original and insightful and yet credible but most important, it was excellently done. With this new book on the other hand, the Fleming insights seem like cliff note snippets of Bond/Fleming trivia that any AJB member can recite in their sleep.
Strictly an opinion, I wouldn't be surprised if Macintyre had this book in the works at the same time as Chancellor's, though that came out first. The Fleming Centenary was a good occasion to leverage, though the connection between the featured exhibit pieces and the text is too thin to support the promotional purpose stated for the book.