Inside Bond's Jamaican villa
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New look inside Bond's Jamaican villa from No Time To Die. A few obvious things some collectors may wish to track down;
A Sailor's Tales, hardcover;
Chess set may be an easy one to identify given the colour way;
Photographic print on the wall
A Sailor's Tales, hardcover;
Chess set may be an easy one to identify given the colour way;
Photographic print on the wall
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Good man. My main drink these days lol
Well you’re certainly well stocked for an extended lockdown!
Lol. That’s just the stuff on display
Now interestingly I contacted JW a couple of weeks ago and got this response:
"Thank you for contacting Johnnie Walker. We currently do not have any product placement sponsorships with the new James Bond movie.
Once again, thank you for contacting Johnnie Walker."
I’m also glad that this living space doesn’t look like such a mess. That was a big miss in Spectre and very inconsistent with Bond’s character.
BTW, the edition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance seen in his villa does not seem to exist on the internet.
Like that idea now you mention it like that :-)
Certainly a plausible explanation. I like it better than “Bond is a slob”!
Probably the photo is a little bit grainy. Please let me know if there's a dedicated thread
The very bottom book in the pile strikes as as being Japanese or Chinese. Mayhap it's Japanese as a tie-in to YOLT and Bond's claim to have taken a first at Cambridge?
I am not sure I would go that far about IF Bond; Though he is mentioned in several stories killing time reading, there are only a handful of books mentioned by name, but he does have a book self in his flat. I'd say that IF Bond is an average reader for his times and social status in Britain. So he would most likely have a quite well stocked book self by our standards.
EDIT: Found the spot in Moonraker: "He left the car under the plane trees in the little square and let himself into the ground floor of the converted Regency house, went into the book-lined sitting-room and, after a moment's search, pulled Scarne on Cards out of its shelf and dropped it on the ornate Empire desk near the broad window."
I'll take back what I said previously, I think Flemings Bond is quite the reader!
-Mr Arlington Beech