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[RossMan]

I was browsing around the 007 forever forums and there was a link for a new JG site.

www.john-gardner.com

It's got some interesting stuff Gardner wrote about being a Bond author. He said The Man From Barbarossa was his favorite because it was something new and different. He also said Oh No Mr. Bond was considered for a title by the US publishers.

[Blue Eyes]

It's great to see that Gardner has a site online! what's even better is that he's written most of the articles on it himself, making the Bond one an extremely great read!

[Icephoenix]

Yea its great, i knew he disliked Bond but I never new he hated him that much!

[RossMan]

Trevelyan (28 Mar, 2002 07:36 a.m.):
Yea its great, i knew he disliked Bond but I never new he hated him that much!

I don't think Gardner really hated writing Bond, he ends saying how it was a "splendid experience."

It'd be interesting to hear what Gardner thinks of Benson.

[Xenobia]

I'll say this much:

When Raymond Benson originally published "The James Bond Bedside Companion" he was a little rough on Gardner. But then when Benson reissued the book, after he started writing the novels...he backtracked on some of his comments.

Benson certainly respects Gardner...and I think JG would extend the same courtesy to RB.

-- Xen

[freemo]

Its a pretty cool site, nice looking, very interesting, not just the Bond stuff. I was pleasently suprised to see that he wrote most of the stuff himself. Thumbs up.

[Blofeld's Cat]

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Sorry, the url works now.