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revisiting spectreville
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— 22 Nov 2015 mark sinker 1 comment

A READER REPORT on Diamonds Are Forever:
(this rereading follows up on this post)
1: Sentence on sentence DaF is indeed well written, though weirdly paced. In fact, there’s no significant action — violent or indeed sexy — until you&[…]

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thanks for the “M”-ories
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— 18 Nov 2015 mark sinker 15 comments

I read the Bond books aged roughly 10-14, starting with Diamonds are Forever, which was the only one in my parents’ house. This was also the first film I saw — birthday outing, my 11th birthday: three schoolfriends and me plus mum, who lied b[…]

SPECTRE vs Trifecta
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— 12 Nov 2015 katstevens 1 comment

He’s got licences to kill, he’s got licenses to fish! But what was Sam Mendes’s *real* wish for James Bond in SPECTRE? An intrepid band of your FT correspondents stumbled upon an early draft of the screenplay last night, while diggi[…]

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