Recommended Further Reading

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• Thunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent

  February 2015

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  In a similar vein, I've re-read all the Flemings, then the continuing novels set in the (60s) and have just started
  to re-read the Gardner novels. ( buying them on kindle as I go) just finished Licence Renewed and will be starting
  For Special Services in March, http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/41729/bond-book-of-the-month/, working
  my way through the entire series, trying to stick to Bond's timeline rather than when they were published. So I
  should finish with Carte Blanche ( as it's a modern Bond story) -{

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

  February 2015

  I defiantly recommend the Gardner Novels (Even though his last few are rather Hit and Miss)
  
  

  1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
• The_Commander EnglandPosts: 245MI6 Agent

  February 2015

  Ok and is there a recommended reading order - TP refers to Bond's timeline rather than publishing timeline.

  1:Sf, 2:NTTD, 3:TSWLM, 4:CR, 5:OHMSS
• Thunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent

  February 2015 edited February 2015

  To be honest I think you have two choices, as they were published or
  As Bond ages.
  When I first read them , I was but a mere schoolboy. So picked them up
  From markets and old book shops, so didn't read them in order but rather
  As I found them.
  I took the advice from many here to read the Fleming books in order, which
  I do think is the best way to do it. -{ after that it's decisions, decisions.
  After DMC I read Solo, the two Christopher Wood Bonds ( Spy & MR) and now
  The Gardner novels.

  "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
• Charmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent

  February 2015

  And don't forget the excellent Colonel Sun by Robert Markham (pseudonym for Kingsley Amis), the first post- Fleming novel. -{

  "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
• AlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,924MI6 Agent

  February 2015

  Yes -{ You cannot forget CS.

  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

  February 2015

  I did. ;% )

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

  February 2015

  Thats just the Symptom of a worn out Memory :v

  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

  February 2015

  I think it's because mentaly I must count it as an
  original Novel, as it was written so soon after the Fleming's

  "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
• Charmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent

  February 2015

  And IMO it's the closest to Fleming and the best written, so an easy mistake to make TP -{

  "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
• AlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,924MI6 Agent

  February 2015

  Yes {[]

  1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger