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[daleblyth]

When is the next book to be selected?? I suggest Colonel Sun.

[Tanger]

I think the Book Club intends to read them in order, although not being a member I wouldn't know. Just out of curiosity, are you including the novelisations aswell?

[daleblyth]

I think the club is dead in the water, as a new book was to be selected in July.

[Bond111]

I thought there was a book selected in July, Live and Let Die. How long has that been the book of discussion? Somebody should write a letter to one of the mods and ask them about it.

[jwheels]

Live and Let Die was selected about 3 months ago. It was the second book selected. But I agree with daleblyth, the book club is pretty much dead.

[Mister Asterix]

If people are still interested we’ll choose a new book, but we didn’t get very many responces to Live and Let Die. Too bad because Casino Royale went so well. If any members would like to suggest a new book we can do another poll. Just let us know here.

[Xenobia]

For those of us just discovering Fleming, I think we should continue to go in order. Let's go with Fleming's Moonraker.

-- Xenobia

[Bond111]

Sounds good to me. Please continue with the book club, and hopefully there will be more participation next time.

[daleblyth]

Moonraker it is!

[Tehuti 004]

I too have just started reading Fleming, I was planning on going in order but I was waiting to see what we were going to read here before I started reading it, just in case we did something different.

Moonraker will be an interesting read, since there isn't much of it in the film.

[rafterman]

Yeah, let's move on to Moonraker. I didn't reread Live and Let Die cause I was too lazy, but I'm still up for the club.

[Mister Asterix]

Okay, cool. Unless anyone has objection we’ll just continue Fleming with Moonraker, rather than post a poll and I will set up the club for the new book next week.

I really want to start mixing it up after that though and get in some Amis, Gardner, and Benson. But I do think all of the Fleming novels should go in order just with some of the other authors sprinkled in.

[Tanger]

Are you reading the novelisatiosn aswell or will they be too difficult for some readers to get hold of, the Christopher Wood ones especially. Are you intending to read any fan fics aswell?

I'd join but the trouble is I only have six Bond books Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. I've read all but the latter two but don't really want to re-read the others as I only finished them recently. Also, where I am, it is quite difficult to find the books anywhere and as I don't want to spend too much, I'll have to find them cheap online or in second hand shops.
Oh well, I might join if I manage to track down all the Fleming books and then I'll just have to try and get the Gardner and Benson's off eBay as and when you are reading them.

[Mister Asterix]

Originally posted by Tanger
Are you reading the novelisatiosn aswell or will they be too difficult for some readers to get hold of, the Christopher Wood ones especially. Are you intending to read any fan fics aswell?

Novelisations, maybe, but not any time soon. There are just so many literary canon books to read first. And I would guess only the Woods novelisation.

Fan fiction, no. That has its own discussion area, and, as much as I want to push people to read the better fan fiction, I don’t think it would be ‘proper’ to include it in the club. I also feel that fan fiction is for people who have read all of the official books that they want to read, and at least some of our members are first time readers.

Originally posted by Tanger
I'd join but the trouble is I only have six Bond books Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. I've read all but the latter two but don't really want to re-read the others as I only finished them recently. Also, where I am, it is quite difficult to find the books anywhere and as I don't want to spend too much, I'll have to find them cheap online or in second hand shops.
Oh well, I might join if I manage to track down all the Fleming books and then I'll just have to try and get the Gardner and Benson's off eBay as and when you are reading them.

One of the things we want to do with the club is help people find the harder to find books. For instance, one of the club members, flares, has a few threads offering copies of the books cheap since he has a source that gets them to him cheap. Hopefully, we will be able to make sure that any book club member who wants to read the current book will be able to find a copy.

[Tehuti 004]

So what new books are we going to read? And when shall we start?

[daleblyth]

Almost all of the Bond books can be obtained for reasonable prices in new or used form on www.alibris.com.

[Hawkeye]

Re: obtaining books.

abebooks.co.uk & abebooks.com are good for hunting down novels, although you might want to contact the individual sellers directly as abe sometimes levy quite hefty postage charges (or at least they did when i first started trawling the site about 2 years ago). I didn't have that problem though when obtaining a signed, like new copy of Benson's TFOD in pbk from a bookstore in Canada.

I managed to get a used copy of HTTK off amazon.co.uk used section for

[DLibrasnow]

Originally posted by Xenobia
For those of us just discovering Fleming, I think we should continue to go in order.  Let's go with Fleming's Moonraker.

-- Xenobia

Oooh yes please....I love "Moonraker" it's one of my all-time favorite Bond novels!

[CommanderBond]

i agree we should go in order

[Bond111]

Originally posted by Mister Asterix
Okay, cool. Unless anyone has objection we’ll just continue Fleming with Moonraker, rather than post a poll and I will set up the club for the new book next week.

Well it's certainly been more than a week. So is the book club dead or are we actually going through with this. I'd love to read Moonraker again. It would be an interesting book to discuss.

[Qwerty]

Moonraker- an all star book, that I never tire of reading, continue on!

[kevrichardson]

Originally posted by Tehuti 004

Moonraker will be an interesting read, since there isn't much of it in the film.

This is very true none of Fleming's Moonraker was in the 1979 film. But at least part of it made it into Die Another Day (2003). Live and Let Die is a very important James Bond book . Going from Casino Royale to Colonel Sun would not help .

[Mister Asterix]

Originally posted by bond111


Well it's certainly been more than a week. So is the book club dead or are we actually going through with this. I'd love to read Moonraker again. It would be an interesting book to discuss.

I apologise for the delay. I have been waiting for Dave to take care of some housekeeping that needs to be done before I can set up the new book. Dave has had a very busy life lately, but promise he can get to it soon.

[Johnboy007]

I agree on to Moonraker, PS when do i get a member icon?

[Derringer]

The order of reading may be what is keeping the forum slow. I can read these in a matter of days, and am almost through with my rereads of the new releases by Penguin. For others, the time frame may be too fast. The books are more meaningful to me now as a 40-something yr-old adult [though I may not be mature yet ].

I am almost through with the re-releases.

Cheers,

Derringer