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[Loomis]

I have a feeling that you'd love "Colonel Sun", Hotshot007. Check out this review: http://00heaven.org/...colonel_sun.htm

[kevrichardson]

Originally posted by Loomis


I've not read any Gardner, but from what I gather the 007 of his novels bears virtually no resemblance to the character created by Fleming. I've read a couple of Bensons, and I'd guess that Benson's Bond has little in common with Gardner's.........................

I know that many people who post on these forums won't take kindly to suggestions that Fleming's is the one and only true James Bond, but I'd like to get a discussion going.

Ian Fleming was a Walter Mitty type . So James Bond was his fantasy . He wanted a life of adventure . So he created James Bond to help face the life of a married man . Fleming was the most unique writer of his time . His style of writing was difficult to create . Markham may have come the closest . Yet in some ways that's unfair . Since he had the advantage of a relationship with him . "Colonel Sun" suffers from being the first of the coutinuation novels . Plus the dislike of Anne Fleming did not help . John Gardner while again not Fleming . Can the closest to re-capturing the Bond Literary style . He in the early novels keep him close to Fleming's Bond . Wiht only modest up-dating . Garnder was the one who returned Bond to driving a Bentley . After the SAAB .