Thoughts on Solo?

alexeberlinalexeberlin Posts: 104MI6 Agent
in James Bond Literature
I don't want to put anything spoilery here but I hope other people enjoy it more than I did.

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  • alexeberlinalexeberlin Posts: 104MI6 Agent
    Okay I know many of you won't have had the opportunity to read it yet but should I post some of my thoughts ..with spoiler warnings..to get a conversation started? I just don't want to spoil it for anyone.
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,920Chief of Staff
    You could always write a spoiler free review....and then add any spoilers underneath hidden by spoiler tags...
    I won't get my copy until weekend - I was too tight to pay for shipping :))
    YNWA 97
  • alexeberlinalexeberlin Posts: 104MI6 Agent
    Sir Miles wrote:
    You could always write a spoiler free review....and then add any spoilers underneath hidden by spoiler tags...
    I won't get my copy until weekend - I was too tight to pay for shipping :))

    thanks Sir Miles. Good advice.
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,920Chief of Staff
    alexeberlin wrote:
    Sir Miles wrote:
    You could always write a spoiler free review....and then add any spoilers underneath hidden by spoiler tags...
    I won't get my copy until weekend - I was too tight to pay for shipping :))

    thanks Sir Miles. Good advice.

    I take it you mean the review - not on the being too tight for shipping :))
    YNWA 97
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,484MI6 Agent
    Word has it the title refers to Bond finding himself alone at the end of the adventure, and much as he was forced to celebrate his birthday by himself, is forced to relieve his pent-up sexual frustration without female accompaniment. Personally I think it's a bit much.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,920Chief of Staff
    Napoleon Plural wrote:
    Word has it the title refers to Bond finding himself alone at the end of the adventure, and much as he was forced to celebrate his birthday by himself, is forced to relieve his pent-up sexual frustration without female accompaniment. Personally I think it's a bit much.

    Hey...I can relate to that :D

    :#
    YNWA 97
  • KwisatzKwisatz Posts: 11MI6 Agent
    Bond masturbates in the novel ?
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,920Chief of Staff
    Kwisatz wrote:
    Bond masturbates in the novel ?

    Really ? What kind of question is that ? X-(
    YNWA 97
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,484MI6 Agent
    Other prospective titles: Pink Oboe, Mrs Palmer and Her Five Daughters, Bashing the Bishop.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • The Domino EffectThe Domino Effect Posts: 3,638MI6 Agent
    Apparently, The Five Knuckle Shuffle was rejected as a title by the publishers quite early on.
  • alexeberlinalexeberlin Posts: 104MI6 Agent
    I've written a review, but haven't figured out spoiler tags. In the meantime I did a tiny review over on amazon uk, which is getting some stick. WARNING: THERE ARE MINOR SPOILER TAGS IN THE COMMENTS THREAD.
  • alexeberlinalexeberlin Posts: 104MI6 Agent
    Sir Miles wrote:
    alexeberlin wrote:
    Sir Miles wrote:
    You could always write a spoiler free review....and then add any spoilers underneath hidden by spoiler tags...
    I won't get my copy until weekend - I was too tight to pay for shipping :))

    thanks Sir Miles. Good advice.

    I take it you mean the review - not on the being too tight for shipping :))

    actually both
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    The Domino Effect wrote:
    Apparently, The Five Knuckle Shuffle was rejected as a title by the publishers quite early on.

    Just think, they could have had:

    Thunderballs
    The Man with the Swollen Gun
    Lacko'pussy

    ... And so many more... ;%
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    The sound of one hand clapping. :)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • scotty8692scotty8692 Posts: 137MI6 Agent
    I like how the thread of thoughts about the book have descended into discussing J.Bond having a J.Arthur! :)) Thoughts on Solo though? I'll be bloody happy if my book gets sent at the price it's showing at in my Amazon account-£3.85!
  • The Domino EffectThe Domino Effect Posts: 3,638MI6 Agent
    Just got my copy. I would have started reading it but the pages are stuck together.
  • MustonMuston Huncote, Leicestershire Posts: 228MI6 Agent
    My copy came this morning. It can't be worse than Deaver's. Surely Boyd is too good a writer for that to happen.
    "Thank you very much. I was just out walking my RAT and seem to have lost my way... "
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,484MI6 Agent
    A convincing, and damning one-star review is on Amazon already.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,920Chief of Staff
    Napoleon Plural wrote:
    A convincing, and damning one-star review is on Amazon already.

    That's the problem I have with reviews and reviewers....they seem to have an axe to grind for some reason...so you tend to get either one star or five star reviews....the reality is usually somewhere in the middle :s
    YNWA 97
  • BleuvilleBleuville Posts: 384MI6 Agent
    Muston wrote:
    My copy came this morning. It can't be worse than Deaver's. Surely Boyd is too good a writer for that to happen.

    Went over to Toppings bookshop in Bath, as when I phoned ,they said they had author signed copies of the book.
    So you have to pay full price of £18.99 whereas in a supermarket you might get it for a tenner (unsigned).

    As it's in 1969 there are some references to WW2 period in 1944. (Bond being born in 1924.)
    and I looked at the end to confirm Bond is still alive and well . (Not killed off as some unwelcome rumours suggested.)

    I'm just starting to read it and look forward to it, having read every single continuation novel as well as the Fleming originals. Then you could have a 1.2.3. poll of best between Faulks, Deaver and Boyd.

    Bleuville.
  • The Domino EffectThe Domino Effect Posts: 3,638MI6 Agent
    Read the first chapter and I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far. Wonderful atmosphere, excellent attention to detail, very Bond. Of course one reviewer said the start was good but was down hill from there, so we'll have to wait and see. But it's certainly got me hooked...and I love Bond driving a Jensen.
  • KwisatzKwisatz Posts: 11MI6 Agent
    I am sorry if my question evoked some jokes, but I think that I did not start the irony.
    I am not a native English speaker and considering that people will go far these days to "renew" an old idea, even a Bond jerking off would be somehow plausible. I love Mr. Flemings novels and have read most of them twice in my life. The idea that the novel plays in the 60s is good and should be transformed to the movies. The real Bond lover, for me, is the book reader. Considering that, every new one is a challenge, a hope, and a big chance to fail and to annoy.
  • MustonMuston Huncote, Leicestershire Posts: 228MI6 Agent
    I got mine off Amazon for £9 but wish I'd have just gone to WHSmith as they have it for £9.49 or something. So I could have got it the day it was released X-(

    Never mind. Start my nightshift tonight so will drop the novel I'm reading and get straight into SOLO. Don't disappoint me William....
    "Thank you very much. I was just out walking my RAT and seem to have lost my way... "
  • David SchofieldDavid Schofield EnglandPosts: 1,528MI6 Agent
    Best continuation for years. Though that's not saying much.

    Pretty simplistic, political story and with the novel twist of not really having a villain. And Bond casually drinking to Olympic standards (where did that come from: James Bond the sozzled agent by Sebastian Faulks and William Boyd?)

    I get that Boyd - and any other professional writer - won't just write Fleming's Bond, so don't expect it here.

    And there's a lovely '80's throwback - a female character straight out of John Gardner's "dead-or-alive-not-what-you-thought-they-are-or-were-they-or- not?"a-thons.

    Boyd tries though, but he uses a lot of words where Fleming wouldn't use many and would get the story across far more stylishly, and with far more literary flair. (Yes, on the evidence so far, IF is a far better writer than literary big-hitters Faulks and Boyd).

    There are still only two continuations worth saving, IMO. Colonel Sun and Wood's Spy, though I'd give an honourable mention to Gardner's Licence Renewed and For Special Services. Someone has entitled a thread here "Who should write the next continuation?" Answer: no one. It's a pointless task.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Oh man, this is a funny article on the new Bond book...
    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/29/james-bond-william-boyd-vinaigrette?CMP=twt_gu

    "And so, out of the Bond barrel, comes another book – to even out the revenue-stream and give the publicists something to work with during a long gap necessitated by the painstaking process of filming Daniel Craig falling off things." :)) :))
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
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