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John Gardner Novels

Started by James Boldman , Mar 04 2003 05:47 AM

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#1 James Boldman

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Posted 04 March 2003 - 05:47 AM

How many Gardner Bond novels have you read?

How many Gardner Bond novels do you have?

What is your favourite Gardner Bond novel?

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Posted 04 March 2003 - 06:10 AM

How many Gardner Bond novels have you read?

Two - - Never Send Flowers and GoldenEye.

How many Gardner Bond novels do you have?

Four - - For Special Services, Brokenclaw, Never Send Flowers and GoldenEye.

What is your favourite Gardner Bond novel?

Of the ones I've read, probably Never Send Flowers.

#3 SirMiles83

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Posted 04 March 2003 - 06:29 AM

How many Gardner Bond novels have you read?
Eight-- License Renewed, For Special Services, Icebreaker, No Deals Mr. Bond, Scorpius, Win, Lose, Or Die, Brokenclaw, and Never Send Flowers

How many Gardner Bond novels do you have?
Twelve

What is your favourite Gardner Bond novel?
(Hard decision) For Special Services

#4 zencat

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Posted 04 March 2003 - 07:07 AM

How many Gardner Bond novels have you read?

All of them.

How many Gardner Bond novels do you have?

All of them.

What is your favourite Gardner Bond novel?

Icebreaker

#5 Icephoenix

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Posted 04 March 2003 - 07:58 AM

How many Gardner Bond novels have you read?

FOUR -- Scorpius, Win Lose Or Die, Death Is Forever, Icebreaker.

How many Gardner Bond novels do you have?

FOUR -- Scorpius, Win Lose Or Die, Death Is Forever, Icebreaker.

What is your favourite Gardner Bond novel?

Icebreaker.

#6 brendan007

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Posted 04 March 2003 - 08:08 AM

how many read?
all but icebreaker and no deals, mr bond

how many do i have?
1 - goldeneye

favourite?
never send flowers or nobody lives forever

#7 kevrichardson

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Posted 04 March 2003 - 01:09 PM

read all of the Garnder novel .

#8 rafterman

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Posted 04 March 2003 - 01:35 PM

I have them all and I've read them all, but as for a favorite, don't really have one, maybe Death is Forever or Wine, Lose or Die or Icebreaker come close, but none of them is that good for me to pick a favorite...

#9 Mister Asterix

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Posted 04 March 2003 - 02:19 PM

Read: All
Own: All
Favourite: It’s not the best, but I’m partial to Licence Renewed because it was the first Bond book I ever read. To me the best would be For Special Services or Icebreaker, but my favourite will always be Licence Renewed.

#10 Johnson Galore

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Posted 04 March 2003 - 02:21 PM

I have all but Seafire and Never Send Flowers. I've read most and found License Renewed and Icebreaker to be the most fun. All are actually quite good but none pack the punch of Fleming's books, thus all the criticism that you see on the boards.

#11 kevrichardson

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Posted 04 March 2003 - 10:32 PM

Does any one know if "Ian Fleming Publications" plans to re-issue the Gardner continuation novels?

#12 Simon

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Posted 04 March 2003 - 10:37 PM

Own and read all.

Probably Licence Renewed, as it had that "first book in a long time" event element to it and it was also a straight forward thriller without all the double, triple , quadruple crosses that plagued the later novels.

A thoroughly good read.

#13 Tehuti 004

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Posted 05 March 2003 - 06:43 AM

Own 5 - For Special Services, Role of Honour, Icebreaker, Brokenclaw & Death is Forever.

Read 3 - For Special Services, Death is Forever & Role of Honour

Pretty close between them, but I would say FSS is my favourite.

#14 Roebuck

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Posted 05 March 2003 - 08:45 AM

1) Read the lot.

2) Apart from 'For Special Services' and 'Icebreaker' I still have them all.

3) Much as I enjoyed 'License Renewed', my favourite was 'No Deals Mr. Bond'.

#15 James Boldman

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Posted 10 March 2003 - 04:15 AM

How many Gardner Bond novels have you read?
Quarter of the way through Licence Renewed; three quarters of the way through Nobody Lives For Ever; half way through Brokenclaw; read all of Death Is Forever; read all of Never Send Flowers; read COLD twice.
How many Gardner Bond novels do you have?
Licence Renewed; For Special Services; Icebreaker; Role Of Honour; Nobody Lives For Ever; No Deals, Mr.Bond; Scorpius; Win, Lose Or Die; Brokenclaw; Death Is Forever; Seafire. (I just bought The Man From Barbarossa; Never Send Flowers; COLD/COLDFALL; on ebay, the other day and they're on there way, so therefore I have every Gardner novel now.)
What is your favourite Gardner Bond novel?
Death Is Forever, so far.

#16 Hotshot007

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Posted 20 March 2003 - 03:32 AM

Read:Lisence Renewed and Win,Lose,or Die

Own:The two above,Goldeneye,Man from Barbarossa,Brokenclaw.

Fave:Lisence Renewed.I loved it and EWin,Lose,or Die pretty much sucked.

#17 jwheels

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Posted 20 March 2003 - 05:27 AM

How many Gardner Bond novels have you read?
All up to Licence to Kill; Cold Fall, Never Send Flowers, Seafire(first Bond book I ever read)

How many Gardner Bond novels do you have?
All of them

What is your favourite Gardner Bond novel?
Actually I quite like Never Send Flowers

#18 sausagebrigade

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Posted 22 March 2003 - 03:39 PM

How many Gardner Bond novels have you read?
Four- Licence Renewed, For Special Services, Icebreaker, Role of Honour

How many Gardner Bond novels do you have?
Licence Renewed, For Special Services, Icebreaker, Role of Honour, Nobody Lives Forever, No Deals Mr Bond, Scorpius, Win Lose or Die, Brokenclaw

What is your favourite Gardner Bond novel?
Licence Renewed. The next few books seem to just be rehashes of it.

#19 DLibrasnow

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Posted 24 March 2003 - 01:36 AM

How many Gardner Bond novels have you read?

All of them.

How many Gardner Bond novels do you have?

All of them.

What is your favourite Gardner Bond novel?

Icebreaker

#20 TheSaint

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Posted 24 March 2003 - 05:40 AM

I've read all but the novelizations, own all but the novelizations, and my fave is For Special Services.

#21 1q2w3e4r

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Posted 24 March 2003 - 05:52 AM

All
All
and For Special Services

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Posted 24 March 2003 - 11:45 AM

How many Gardner Bond novels have you read?: Nobody Lives Forever and No Deals, Mr. Bond

How many Gardner Bond novels do you have?: Two

What is your favourite Gardner Bond novel?: No Deals, Mr. Bond

#23 Kernal Son

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Posted 07 April 2003 - 02:31 AM

How many Gardner Bond novels have you read? Read 'em all.

How many Gardner Bond novels do you have? Sadly, I've lost a few over the years (like "Win, Lose or Die" "SeaFire" and "Cold")

What is your favourite Gardner Bond novel? "For Special Services." But judging by the number of votes "Icebreaker" has above, it might be time for me to give that a second reading. Or is that a third reading? I can't remember...getting...old....

#24 Bryce (003)

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Posted 07 April 2003 - 03:19 AM

Read and have: All

Favorite: Licence Renewed (Bond is Back!) but I also must include For Special Services (SPECTRE is Back!) and Icebreaker - great story with twists and turns and some great sequences.

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Posted 15 April 2003 - 06:19 PM

How many Gardner Bond novels have you read?
Seven

How many Gardner Bond novels do you have?
Ten

What is your favourite Gardner Bond novel?
Never Send Flowers, a great book. I love it...

#26 scaramanga

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Posted 19 April 2003 - 12:50 AM

How many Gardner Bond novels have you read?
All of them
How many Gardner Bond novels do you have?
All of them
What is your favourite Gardner Bond novel?
No Deals, Mister Bond

#27 General Koskov

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Posted 19 April 2003 - 05:13 AM

Read all.

Own WLOD and NDMB.

Favourite is LR, with Icebreaker as a close second.

#28 Cesari

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Posted 27 April 2003 - 02:01 PM

How many Gardner Bond novels have you read?
All of them
How many Gardner Bond novels do you have?
All of them
What is your favourite Gardner Bond novel?
Licence renewed and Nobody lives forever
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