Want to buy J.Gardner
Juraquagmire
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I plan buy his series, but problem is there don't any in bookshop local. So I plan to order books online, but there're variables sizes. I don't want buy books that standout along series.
Any recommend website?
Any recommend website?
Dalton is the Bond! Lazenby is the other fella.
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Said.. the one book sized 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm, but next book size are 20.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm.
When on put on bookcase the one will standout to other.
Licence Renewed (1981) to No Deals Mr Bond (1987) were published by Cape
The rest were published by Hodder & Stoughton except I think Licence to Kill which was by the Armchair detective.
Some of the book club editions are the same size, some smaller.
I put a pic up in the Collectors forum some time ago.
The Bensons are consistent though.
Think you'll find that the Gardner's up to "No Deals" while published by Cape are uniform to each other but not to Fleming. They are slightly taller than the Flemings. The only UK Firsts uniform to Fleming are COLONEL SUN and Chris Wood's books. (which may be an omen).
I'll start by saying that Gardner didn't consider his LTK novel to be part of his series (he says so in his foreword).
And of course some would argue that TB is a novelisation, and that is certainly canon.
And yet Gardner contrives to fit his Bond and his world into LTK....
And LTK is by far a better novel than most of Gardner's original Bond work.
I've heard the same can't be said for the Goldeneye Novelization he did a few Years later.
To be honest, GOLDENEYE is one of Gardner's best, too. Someone else wrote the plot for him, like LTK, so there was no opportunity for the double cross that wasn't/double,triple agents that weren't/unforeseeably ludicrous twists that he became obsessed with.
Fact was, JG was a fine writer, not a great plotter (Raymond Benson a decent plotter, who...)
Strictly speaking, though it does not effect the continuity and there is nothing contradictory in the reading, LTK should be read first as it was published (in Coronet paperback form) before WLD in early summer 1989.