I just purchased Christopher Wood's Moonraker...

chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
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I just won a copy of Wood's novelization of MR on eBay and while I'm waiting for its delivery I wanted to ask my fellow AJBers if you think I'm going to like it.
I enjoyed the living daylights out of his TSWLM adaption! -{
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  • Sir James MoloneySir James Moloney LondonPosts: 139MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    I just won a copy of Wood's novelization of MR on eBay and while I'm waiting for its delivery I wanted to ask my fellow AJBers if you think I'm going to like it.
    I enjoyed the living daylights out of his TSWLM adaption! -{

    It's not as good as James Bond and the Spy Who Loved Me as he has so much more work to do to make the plot seem creditable but it's written in very much the same style. I really think his two novelisations are better than all of the other continuation novels and capture Fleming's style quite wonderfully (far better than "Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming", for example)
    1- CR. 2- OHMSS. 3- FRWL. 4- GF. 5- DN. 6- TLD. 7- SF. 8- TSWLM. 9- GE. 10- LTK.
    11- TB. 12- OP. 13- LALD. 14- TMWTGG. 15- FYEO. 16- YOLT. 17- TND. 18- QoS.
    19- TWINE. 20- AVTAK. 21- MR. 22- DAF. 23- DAD.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    Sir James Moloney wrote:
    It's not as good as James Bond and the Spy Who Loved Me as he has so much more work to do to make the plot seem creditable
    I actually like the OTT story of MR even thought the movie itself is my least favourite of them all; it has all the classic elements, just hampered by the juvenile nonsense humour choices and questionable laser & zero-G FX. I'm hoping that like his TSWLM novelization, it will be a fun journey through the same story with similar clever literary twists that make it seem more believable to a degree. :)
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,270MI6 Agent
    It's the dogs', highly enjoyable.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

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  • perdoggperdogg Posts: 432MI6 Agent
    I wish I could get a Jonathan Cape Hardback edition, with Dustcover, at a reasonable price.
    "And if I told you that I'm from the Ministry of Defence?" James Bond - The Property of a Lady
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,673MI6 Agent
    perdogg wrote:
    I wish I could get a Jonathan Cape Hardback edition, with Dustcover, at a reasonable price.

    Yes, that would indeed be very difficult to find - I think these are rare yet sought after.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • perdoggperdogg Posts: 432MI6 Agent
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    perdogg wrote:
    I wish I could get a Jonathan Cape Hardback edition, with Dustcover, at a reasonable price.

    Yes, that would indeed be very difficult to find - I think these are rare yet sought after.


    It is more expensive than my new car payment, the only ones under $200 are ex-library copies.

    http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=1&tn=james+bond+and+moonraker
    "And if I told you that I'm from the Ministry of Defence?" James Bond - The Property of a Lady
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,673MI6 Agent
    perdogg wrote:
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    perdogg wrote:
    I wish I could get a Jonathan Cape Hardback edition, with Dustcover, at a reasonable price.

    Yes, that would indeed be very difficult to find - I think these are rare yet sought after.


    It is more expensive than my new car payment, the only ones under $200 are ex-library copies.

    http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=1&tn=james+bond+and+moonraker

    Ex-libris books aren't worth as much to the book collector, sadly. :#
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • MustonMuston Huncote, Leicestershire Posts: 228MI6 Agent
    I've recently got a paperback copy of Wood's MR novelization and am strangely looking forward to reading it. But if it's as good as you good people on here say it is, I'm in for a treat :)
    "Thank you very much. I was just out walking my RAT and seem to have lost my way... "
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    Muston wrote:
    I've recently got a paperback copy of Wood's MR novelization and am strangely looking forward to reading it. But if it's as good as you good people on here say it is, I'm in for a treat :)
    You read his TSWLM I take it?
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,673MI6 Agent
    Muston wrote:
    I've recently got a paperback copy of Wood's MR novelization and am strangely looking forward to reading it. But if it's as good as you good people on here say it is, I'm in for a treat :)

    Yes, outside of Amis, he's the best of the James Bond continuation authors I think most of us would agree.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • MustonMuston Huncote, Leicestershire Posts: 228MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    Muston wrote:
    I've recently got a paperback copy of Wood's MR novelization and am strangely looking forward to reading it. But if it's as good as you good people on here say it is, I'm in for a treat :)
    You read his TSWLM I take it?
    . No I've not read his first novelization. But if I enjoy MR then I'll get a copy.
    "Thank you very much. I was just out walking my RAT and seem to have lost my way... "
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    Muston wrote:
    No I've not read his first novelization. But if I enjoy MR then I'll get a copy.
    I loved his TSWLM. If his MR is even 75% as good I'll be happy. Say, we might be reading it at roughly the same time, eh?
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • MustonMuston Huncote, Leicestershire Posts: 228MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    Muston wrote:
    No I've not read his first novelization. But if I enjoy MR then I'll get a copy.
    I loved his TSWLM. If his MR is even 75% as good I'll be happy. Say, we might be reading it at roughly the same time, eh?

    Tell me when the day you're going to start and I shall also begin. Syncronise watches, "for England James?"
    "Thank you very much. I was just out walking my RAT and seem to have lost my way... "
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,673MI6 Agent
    Muston wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    Muston wrote:
    No I've not read his first novelization. But if I enjoy MR then I'll get a copy.
    I loved his TSWLM. If his MR is even 75% as good I'll be happy. Say, we might be reading it at roughly the same time, eh?

    Tell me when the day you're going to start and I shall also begin. Syncronise watches, "for England James?"

    "A small world." :)
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • MustonMuston Huncote, Leicestershire Posts: 228MI6 Agent
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    Muston wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    I loved his TSWLM. If his MR is even 75% as good I'll be happy. Say, we might be reading it at roughly the same time, eh?

    Tell me when the day you're going to start and I shall also begin. Syncronise watches, "for England James?"

    "A small world." :)

    The world, is not always enough. :007)
    "Thank you very much. I was just out walking my RAT and seem to have lost my way... "
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,673MI6 Agent
    Muston wrote:
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    Muston wrote:

    Tell me when the day you're going to start and I shall also begin. Syncronise watches, "for England James?"

    "A small world." :)

    The world, is not always enough. :007)

    "The very words I live by." B-)
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    Muston wrote:
    Tell me when the day you're going to start and I shall also begin. Syncronise watches, "for England James?"
    For us, Muston.
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,519Chief of Staff
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    Muston wrote:
    I've recently got a paperback copy of Wood's MR novelization and am strangely looking forward to reading it. But if it's as good as you good people on here say it is, I'm in for a treat :)

    Yes, outside of Amis, he's the best of the James Bond continuation authors I think most of us would agree.

    I concur...it would have been interesting to see what he could have done with an original piece...
    YNWA 97
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,673MI6 Agent
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    Muston wrote:
    I've recently got a paperback copy of Wood's MR novelization and am strangely looking forward to reading it. But if it's as good as you good people on here say it is, I'm in for a treat :)

    Yes, outside of Amis, he's the best of the James Bond continuation authors I think most of us would agree.

    I concur...it would have been interesting to see what he could have done with an original piece...

    Indeed, Sir Miles. -{ Pity he was never offered the gig.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    Sir Miles wrote:
    I concur...it would have been interesting to see what he could have done with an original piece...
    While reading Wood's TSWLM I found it freakin' uncanny how (seemingly) effortlessly he captured Fleming's prose... not forced or phony...
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • davidelliott101davidelliott101 Posts: 165MI6 Agent
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    Muston wrote:
    I've recently got a paperback copy of Wood's MR novelization and am strangely looking forward to reading it. But if it's as good as you good people on here say it is, I'm in for a treat :)

    Yes, outside of Amis, he's the best of the James Bond continuation authors I think most of us would agree.

    I agree... I have had this book for several years and read it a year ago on a flight back East... I was really impressed by his style and it was the most Fleming-esque of any of the continuation authors. I enjoyed it greatly
  • MustonMuston Huncote, Leicestershire Posts: 228MI6 Agent
    I'm going to interrupt my John Gardner mission to read Wood's MR next. As soon as I've finished For Special Services.
    "Thank you very much. I was just out walking my RAT and seem to have lost my way... "
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    davidelliott101 wrote:
    I agree... I have had this book for several years and read it a year ago on a flight back East... I was really impressed by his style and it was the most Fleming-esque of any of the continuation authors. I enjoyed it greatly
    OOooo, Muston, we are in for a treat! B-)
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • davidelliott101davidelliott101 Posts: 165MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    davidelliott101 wrote:
    I agree... I have had this book for several years and read it a year ago on a flight back East... I was really impressed by his style and it was the most Fleming-esque of any of the continuation authors. I enjoyed it greatly
    OOooo, Muston, we are in for a treat! B-)

    I hope it lives up your YOUR high standards.... to paraphrase Bond in OHMSS
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    davidelliott101 wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    davidelliott101 wrote:
    I agree... I have had this book for several years and read it a year ago on a flight back East... I was really impressed by his style and it was the most Fleming-esque of any of the continuation authors. I enjoyed it greatly
    OOooo, Muston, we are in for a treat! B-)

    I hope it lives up your YOUR high standards.... to paraphrase Bond in OHMSS
    Wood's TSWLM did! :))
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,270MI6 Agent
    "The Spy Who Loved Me's wood did..."

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    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    edited April 2013
    I got IT!
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    Happy happy. -{
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • MustonMuston Huncote, Leicestershire Posts: 228MI6 Agent
    Nice one! That's us both ready for blast off then! Is that paperback or hardback? I'm awaiting Wood's TSWLM.
    "Thank you very much. I was just out walking my RAT and seem to have lost my way... "
  • David SchofieldDavid Schofield EnglandPosts: 1,528MI6 Agent
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    Muston wrote:
    I've recently got a paperback copy of Wood's MR novelization and am strangely looking forward to reading it. But if it's as good as you good people on here say it is, I'm in for a treat :)

    Yes, outside of Amis, he's the best of the James Bond continuation authors I think most of us would agree.

    I concur...it would have been interesting to see what he could have done with an original piece...

    I think Amis' novel stagnates quite quickly, TBH. Though his writing is quite brilliant, and after an awesome start, JB just goes for a boat trip without any real urgency despite the fact that the head of the British Secret Service is in the hands of a foreign power with all the top secret info he holds....

    Wood would surely have been a better choice by Gildrose than Gardner in 1981. They had evidence of his quality with the two novels he had written by that time and was probably a bigger name than Gardner in 1981 with his association with the last two films huge box office.

    Wood has admitted he love to have had a crack at an original Bond novel. But he has also said he was never approached. Which, considering Glidrose and the history of the continuations, is hardly a surprise....

    Wood remains, IMO, the best Bond writer after Fleming. And he's still with us. So, IFP, if Boyd misses the target this autumn, just give Wood a buzz in the South of France.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    Muston wrote:
    Nice one! That's us both ready for blast off then! Is that paperback or hardback?
    Paperback, $1.99 on eBbay!
    I'm awaiting Wood's TSWLM.
    That one I know is great.
    I suggest you read that one first though. -{
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
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