James Bond books among the most popular to pretend to have read

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• Charmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent

  May 2017

  Purvis and Wade?

  "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
• Dirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent

  May 2017

  aka The Pretenders?
  
  
  (Nobody ever expects The Pretenders)

  a reasonable rate of return
• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent

  May 2017

  I think there are some of those types on Bond forums too, alas.
  
  It shows that the Bond novels now have attained a certain cachet in a cultural sense, and that is a very good thing. -{
  
  It would be nice to think that the more Fleming faithful Craig era is at least partly responsible for this. The 2008 Fleming centenary also raised awareness of Fleming and his Bond novels and short stories too, of course.

  "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
• The Domino Effect Posts: 3,638MI6 Agent

  May 2017

  While there are quite a few books on that list that I have never read, I can honestly say that I have never lied about it. I don't really see the point. The last time I lied about reading a book was in school!