British PM and 007 novelist in discussion at the London Book Fair
Gordon Brown Talks With Sebastian Faulks
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, Apr 15 2008 12:42 AM
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Posted 15 April 2008 - 12:42 AM
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Posted 15 April 2008 - 12:45 AM
Wow, interesting stuff; never knew old Brownie was a fan of Look Back in Anger. 
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Posted 15 April 2008 - 02:17 AM
That echos Kennedy liking From Russia With Love.
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Posted 15 April 2008 - 06:50 AM
That echos Kennedy liking From Russia With Love.
"Prime Minister, you're no Jack Kennedy".
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Posted 15 April 2008 - 10:06 AM
That echos Kennedy liking From Russia With Love.
"Prime Minister, you're no Jack Kennedy".
Er...
Fleming's Bond = Jack Kennedy - handsome, worldly, charming, immaculately dressed, irresistible to women, respected around the world.
Faulks' Bond = Gordon Brown - lardy, scuffily dressed, ineloquent, bumbling, limited experience with women (some say alternative peferences), not desperately respected even in th UK.
The omen's for DMC = not good if that's the case.
Oh, and:
Fleming's Bond = Jack Kennedy = dead.
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Posted 15 April 2008 - 01:09 PM
That echos Kennedy liking From Russia With Love.
"Prime Minister, you're no Jack Kennedy".
Quite. Is it really healthy that James Bond is being associated, however tenuously, with the walking disaster currently occupying Downing Sreet? God knows, I was no fan of Blair and yearned daily for his removal from office. But, sadly, it's true that one should always be wary of what one wishes for...
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Posted 15 April 2008 - 01:38 PM
The Prime Minister admitted to being a fan of 007, having read "most of the James Bond novels a long time ago".
Oh, very good. He gets to claim that he's down wiz da Bond-reading kidz, but, of course, it was all so long ago, so for heaven's sake don't ask him any questions about what he thinks of the books.
Oh, very good. He gets to claim that he's down wiz da Bond-reading kidz, but, of course, it was all so long ago, so for heaven's sake don't ask him any questions about what he thinks of the books.