octopussy and the living daylights was ian fleming's last bond book.
octopussy and the living daylights was ian fleming's last bond book.
what was ian fleming's last bond book?
octopussy and the living daylights
fleming's last two books, "the man with the golden gun" and "octopussy and the living daylights", were published posthumously. "the man with the golden gun" was published eight months after fleming's death and had not been through the full editing process by fleming. as a result, the novel was thought by publishing company jonathan cape to be thin and "feeble". the publishers had passed the manuscript to kingsley amis to read on holiday, but did not use his suggestions. fleming's biographer henry chandler observes that the novel "received polite and rather sad reviews, recognising that the book had effectively been left half-finished, and as such did not represent fleming at the top of his game". the final bond book, containing two short stories, "octopussy and the living daylights", was published in britain on 23 june 1966.
ian fleming
during may 2006 sebastian faulks was approached by ian fleming publications and asked to write a bond book for ian fleming's centenary. although he initially refused, he was persuaded after he re-read fleming's novels and the company gave him an article by fleming in 1962—"how to write a thriller"—which revealed that he wrote each bond book in only six weeks. faulks copied elements of fleming's routine, joking that "in his house in jamaica, ian fleming used to write 1000 words in the morning, then go snorkelling, have a cocktail, lunch on the terrace, more diving, another 1000 words in the late afternoon, then more martinis and glamorous women. in my house in london, i followed this routine exactly, apart from the cocktails, the lunch and the snorkelling."
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