A new Anthony Horowitz Bond novel... (Page 4 of 9)

The cover looks like it should be on a romance novel set on a cruise. For a book about Bond's roots a navy ship would've been better.

It's not the worst (though very far from the best) and won't stop me buying it.

Oh wow okay, that is pretty cool. A Beretta 92 though, why?

cool cover. a bit like the surrealisms typical in the film credits.
I'm glad to see Flemings name is a bit smaller in this layout. After seeing the actual synopsis from Murder on Wheels which inspired Horowitz, I believe placing Fleming's name in such a big font was dishonest advertising.

Still curious of course what exactly the new Fleming content will be. If I read the above posted interview correctly, its not any actual origin-related content, so is Horowitz taking another unused TV episode plot and backdating it to before the events of Casino...? I guess we'll just have to wait to find out.

Perhaps, to be fair, 1960 was getting to be an impossibly busy year for James Bond, with the five small adventures already described in FYEO and now the rather larger adventure declassified in Horowitz's first book. Maybe he felt the need to shuffle the remaining TV plots around a bit, to even out Bond's chronological workload.

good point eh? the words James Bond are the tiniest text on the cover. Usually they'd be the biggest.

Sometimes I think less is more with James Bond novel covers or they become too much of a generic thriller cover. It's like what they did with the Never Send Flowers covers with a dragonfly hovering over a blood-tipped rose. I predicted on MI6 Community that the wake of the boat (and the boat itself) represented a bullet in flight and it seems I was correct, from the expanded full cover.

In any event, it's best not to judge a book by its cover. It's the content of the text inside the covers that counts the most! All the rest is just aesthetics. 

I don't know what was wrong with a semi naked woman sitting
Astride an oversized gun 

That went out in the 1970s, TP. Perhaps, sadly? 

That said, I've never been very keen on those Bond covers by Panther. There's more to Bond than that.

Yes, you remember the first ones you buy the best of all. My first (back in August 1995) were the 1960s Pans and I like them the best of all the paperback editions of the Bond novels. Probably no coincidence as they were my first Bond novels. I actually think I only have one of the 'girls on guns' Panther covers - TMWTGG. They do seem to be hard to find in secondhand bookshops these days. I wonder why...? 

I didn’t even notice the “007” or “James Bond” until you mentioned it...the white, tiny text on the lightest/whitest part of the ocean picture is a terrible idea

I'm sure the Point of Sale displays will have
Lots of James Bond 007 detailing.  With a bit
Of " New international  Best seller "

On the Title "Forever and a day " it is used by
Shakespeare  in two of his plays. So if it's good
Enough for the bard ....... possibly Horowitz  has
Been reading Barbel's Shakespearean  thread 

Last edited by Thunderpussy (4th Mar 2018 10:49)

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