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[Qwerty]

CBn presents on the main page...

An Interview With Benjamin Pratt

A conversation with the author of 'Ian Fleming, James Bond, and 007's Deadly Sins'

[MarkA]

I am sorry but this book annoys me as much as the really overly academic studies of Bond. The author is clutching at straws. Finding inferences that are clearly not there. But hey, lets twist and bend things until we do. Nonsense.

[Safari Suit]

I am sorry but this book annoys me as much as the really overly academic studies of Bond. The author is clutching at straws. Finding inferences that are clearly not there. But hey, lets twist and bend things until we do. Nonsense.

"In your book, you speculate that Ian Fleming might not have chosen the name James Bond after the ornithologist, but rather from the first sentence of the Epistle of James."

Yeah, that's about the size of it.

[crheath]

Didn't this guy date Julia Roberts?

[MkB]

I am sorry but this book annoys me as much as the really overly academic studies of Bond. The author is clutching at straws. Finding inferences that are clearly not there. But hey, lets twist and bend things until we do. Nonsense.

"In your book, you speculate that Ian Fleming might not have chosen the name James Bond after the ornithologist, but rather from the first sentence of the Epistle of James."

Yeah, that's about the size of it.

It's a pity though if there really are so many straw-clutching statements, for Fleming was indeed influenced by a religious background. The St George vs. Dragon aspects for instance, or his repeated use of the originally quite monastic concept of accidia.

Didn't this guy date Julia Roberts?

Wasn't it Pratt Pitt?

[Qwerty]

It does go to show you that there are seemingly endless theories and ideas on just how James Bond came around.