Fleming's reading List

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• always shaken LondonPosts: 6,287MI6 Agent

  October 2014

  AlphaOmegaSin wrote:

  Does anyone what Fleming was reading at the Time he wrote CR? I'm curious to know who his Writing Inspirations were.

  
  He might have got his inspiration from a film he saw ? will we ever know 8-)

  By the way, did I tell you, I was "Mad"?
• Thunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent

  October 2014

  Like many he read the John Buchan novels like the 39 steps and
  Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu books ( Dr No) Along with the saint
  Novels .

  "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
• AlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,924MI6 Agent

  October 2014

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  I've looked at the Saint Novels before, but never read them fully.

  1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
• Thunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent

  October 2014

  I read them along with Bond as. Kid and in my Teens. -{

  "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
• Le Samourai Honolulu, HIPosts: 573MI6 Agent

  October 2014

  Ian Fleming was also a fan of Raymond Chandler and Eric Ambler.
  
  Later on, Fleming was an outspoken fan of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series.

  —Le Samourai
  
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