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Finished You Only Live Twice this afternoon, by the pool. What a thumping good read! Just a quick question regarding a passage towards the end of the book...

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Who is the MG who writes the passage at the end of Bond's obituary? I feel I should know it, but I'm racking my brains with no luck.

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[Vodka Martino]

Gee, Dark, you really can pick 'em. I was having a relaxing day off from work and then I get onto the forums and what do I see? This question! And before I knew it, I was racking my brains trying to figure it out.
Ah, well. It's a coupla minutes to ten. Goodnight, Mary.

Vodka Martino

P.S.- That was the answer. Bugged me for a while, though, before I had a vision of Britt Ekland in the boot of a flying car. She popped into my head while I was watching "Octopussy" last night...but that's another story.

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Of course! Thanks, Vodka!

I was going over all the MI6 staff... M, Moneypenny, Q, Bond's secretary [whose name I won't spell for fear of getting it wrong], even Mae, but none of them fitted for one reason or another! Didn't even think of Miss Goodnight.

Thanks!

[General Koskov]

M.G. was Bond's secretary at the time of YOLT. His other Lolilaiaileieaoila Ponsoby (dare I say 'sp?'?) got married before OHMSS or something. I suppose at the end of YOLT, MI6 realised that a dead agent has no need for a secretary, so they stuck her in Jamaica!

[Tanger]

I'm currently storming through this. It's such and entertaining and easy read, I can't put it down.
I'm about halfway through and I only started reading it last night.

I did take a sneaky peak at Bond's Obituary just to see Fleming self-praising himself and wondered what the MG stood for.

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The last six chapters I just had to read in one go.

Got stuck straight into The Man With The Golden Gun last night.

[Vodka Martino]

Loelia Ponsonby, if memory serves me correctly, is how her name is spelled. That is such a silly name, even for a Bond girl. What next...Alotta Fagina? Oh, behave.

VM

[Tanger]

Just finished this book. It's the fastest I've ever finished reading a novel.
Definitely my favourite Bond book. Beautiful imagery, great action, a classic in my opinion. My next stop will be the two short story collections and then I'm going to read TMWTGG and then go back and read all the ones I've missed, MR, DAF, FRWL, GF, TB, DN.

[Loomis]

Definitely my favourite Bond book. Beautiful imagery, great action, a classic in my opinion.

Couldn't agree more. I just find it spellbinding (and extremely moving - for me,

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Bond's loss of Kissy and his becoming a father without knowing it is much sadder than his loss of Tracy

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[clinkeroo]

Whenever I finish You Only Live Twice I like to dive straight into the first few chapters of The Man With The Golden Gun. There's a flow between the two novels, much like the links between On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and You Only Live Twice. Those first few chapters of The Man With The Golden Gun (trying hard not to give out spoilers) have a much more finished feel than the rest of the book. I'd bet dimes to donuts that Fleming had a chance to revise these bits before the end. I have no facts to back it up, it just feels that way when I read it.

[Pussfeller]

I am almost certain that M.G. stands for Mary Goodnight, Bond's secretary.