Nightmark@aol.com
Wed, 24 Nov 1999 22:22:46 EST
In a message dated 11/25/99 1:50:15 AM, you wrote:
<<>Was that in CASINO ROYALE? It's been more than 20
years since I read it, but
>for some reason I thought that scene was in Kingsley
Amis' COLONEL SUN.
Gotta be CASINO ROYALE. I never read COLONEL SUN.
Bill Crider>>
Colonel Sun also has a terrifically brutal torture sequence
-- Amis deliberately set out to outdo Fleming's Casino Royale
scene. Sun's approach is different, however; he specifically
avoids the genitals.
Colonel Sun was/is the best non-Fleming James Bond novel,
nicely evoking Fleming while subtly humanizing the character,
although the current author, novice novelist Raymond Benson,
has been doing some nice, solid work. John Gardner's novels,
were, in my opinion, uniformly mediocre -- but they kept the
franchise alive through the Eighties.
CEM
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