Are Ian Fleming's James Bond novels mere pulp or literature suffering at the hands of blinkered snobbery?
Ben Macintyre is there.
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I have to admit, the Bond books are pulp. Good pulp, but pulp. And some of them are, to put it bluntly, bad. Try reading the novel _Moonraker_ and be amazed by the dippiness of the plot and a reliance on coincidence which Edgar Rice Burroughs would have blushed at.
1 comment:
I have to admit, the Bond books are pulp. Good pulp, but pulp. And some of them are, to put it bluntly, bad. Try reading the novel _Moonraker_ and be amazed by the dippiness of the plot and a reliance on coincidence which Edgar Rice Burroughs would have blushed at.
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