Are Ian Fleming's James Bond novels mere pulp or literature suffering at the hands of blinkered snobbery?Ben Macintyre is there.
Friday, 13 July 2007
Bond Books
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.
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