tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2233203994322586500.post652021806107268113..comments2024-02-16T07:47:17.645-08:00Comments on The Book Bond: Requiem for a novelizationThe Book Bondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014913614591869289noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2233203994322586500.post-38266630734515565462013-07-05T04:01:31.588-07:002013-07-05T04:01:31.588-07:00I'm tempted to pick up the recent reprints of ...I'm tempted to pick up the recent reprints of Licence to Kill and GoldenEye as I recently got a few of the reprinted Gardner books, having never read any of them before. I'm also hoping they'll do reprints of the Wood novelisations because I'm dying to read those!Leighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13725766232346391101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2233203994322586500.post-1679878995817249292013-04-13T16:24:42.990-07:002013-04-13T16:24:42.990-07:00I hope, with all these Bond novels coming out in t...I hope, with all these Bond novels coming out in trade paperback, someone will consider a new life for the Christopher Wood books. For many readers, they would be new stories...Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12679605532704204031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2233203994322586500.post-73548790282318096342012-03-22T07:19:13.470-07:002012-03-22T07:19:13.470-07:00Yes. I thought that might cause confusion. The Cor...Yes. I thought that might cause confusion. The Coronet paperback was released with the movie in 1989. The Mysterious Press hardcovers (and these are just the hardcovers I'm listing here) were published in 1990.The Book Bondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014913614591869289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2233203994322586500.post-9327150997982127842012-03-21T15:57:19.164-07:002012-03-21T15:57:19.164-07:00Also, Licence to Kill, April 1990? Presumably ther...Also, Licence to Kill, April 1990? Presumably there was a paperback first.Luke Freemannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2233203994322586500.post-50716558799920151202012-03-21T07:47:48.812-07:002012-03-21T07:47:48.812-07:00Great comments, guys. You could be right. This mig...Great comments, guys. You could be right. This might not be the end, just a pause. Hope so. :)The Book Bondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014913614591869289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2233203994322586500.post-83299992931744332082012-03-20T20:12:47.000-07:002012-03-20T20:12:47.000-07:00I agree with Luke that, as nice as this post is (a...I agree with Luke that, as nice as this post is (and it's very nice indeed to see those particular--in some cases elusive--hardcovers pictured together), it may be a bit premature for a requiem. I don't think we've seen the last of Bond novelizations. The novelization itself may be on the way out (though still far from gone), but as you illustrate so eloquently in this post, Bond Tannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03910873055922510145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2233203994322586500.post-645231409731941732012-03-20T16:58:44.591-07:002012-03-20T16:58:44.591-07:00I don't think it's safe to say they'll...I don't think it's safe to say they'll never be another Bond novelization, though at the moment it may seem unlikely. A couple of years ago, how likely did reprints of Licence to Kill and GoldenEye seem? (novelizations reprinted 15-20 years after the movie has come and gone? STAR WARS aside, that's practically unheard of) Or indeed the Gardners at all? How likely did any future Luke Freemannoreply@blogger.com