The writing is sweaty, tense and brilliant. If you go to some of the set pieces, I love the bridge game in Moonraker or the golf game in Goldfinger, the sleigh chase in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the centipede in Dr. It's a wonderful example of a writer learning his craft, developing his craft. He wrote it three times, chiselling and sculpting away, and got the paragraph exactly right. And it's interesting, if you check it out on the Internet, you'll see there are three versions of it. The opening paragraph of Casino Royale is just a wonderful piece of writing. There's always a sentence that will make you smile. I've read these books something like 10 times, so I know them backwards.
I think people would be surprised at how well written they are. What’s the biggest difference between books and films? But the five at the beginning of the series, then Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service are just wonderful, wonderful books. The best action writing in the business is Ian Fleming's, and because the plots are so different from the films, you won't know what's going to happen.
They are brilliantly written, wonderful descriptions, great characters. But the books are in their own way small masterpieces full of the most amazing scenes. The films are so phenomenally good and well known that people have forgotten the books that are behind them. They'll be surprised at how wonderful the books are. Simple question to begin: why should people read the James Bond novels? Take a deep dive into the most influential thrillers in literary history.
As well as possessing the passion of the fan, Horowitz has been under the hood he understands what makes these novels work and also what makes them loved. The celebrated author has written two continuation Bond novels – Trigger Mortis and Forever And A Day – and knows Fleming quite literarily inside out. Of course every course needs a good tutor, and we found the perfect one in the form of Anthony Horowitz. To offer a crash-course in Fleming's Bond, and encourage people to pick up one of the novels – all of which are harder, darker and quite simply weirder than your average Roger Moore flick. Yet while you'll struggle to find somebody who hasn't seen a Bond film, the books have become overshadowed by their big screen adaptations. A friend convinced him of its merits and the rest is history – both literary and of course cinematic.Īlmost 70 years have passed since the success of Casino Royale secured Fleming a three-book publishing deal (Jonathan Cape sold out three print runs, although American sales were poor), and the name James Bond is now recognised all over the world. Indeed the former Naval intelligence officer harboured serious doubts the short thriller entitled Casino Royale was even deserving of publication.
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