007 3

Tonight I am going to talk about one essential part of a Bond Book( or movie). The villain. Bond being the worlds greatest super spy it is no wonder that he has some of the meanest or cruelest villains . In this novel Bond is faced with two villains really, the first being Emilio Largo.

Largo is Bonds main opposition for he is looking after the operation set up by SPECTRE ( who I will talk about soon.) Largo seems to be Bonds equal ,competitive, good with women, in very good shape physically and mentally. These similarities should prove interesting once they face off. To be fair the two men have already "battled" they played a card game against each other, Bond walked away with alot of money while Largo sat grudgingly broke. But their card game was interesting to watch because it was a battle of wits in which Bond prevailed. When the inevitable comes it will be fun to read their fight.

The other Villain I am going to talk about is Blofeld. For those of you who watch the movies Blofeld is Bond's ultimate nemesis, a man who tries to wreak havoc in the world but is thwarted many times by Bond. Blofeld has his revenge and kills Bond's only wife in one book. But anyway Blofeld runs the organization called SPECTRE, which is a almost terrorist organization that in this book has captured two atomic bombs and is ransoming them. I dont know much about Blofeld from the book, only that he is cool, calculating, and utterly ruthless. He seems to pull plans out of hats that threaten the world. I doubt in this book Bond will meet him face to face, but it will be something to see when Bond meets the creator of this intricate chess game that threatens the Western world, a true Bond Villian.

007 post 2

Tonight I am going to talk about the person who writes the books I am reading. The author of the James Bond series is a man be the name of Ian Fleming( who apparently at one point was in the secret service.) So what I want to write about more specifically is the writing style Fleming uses. As you can imagine one of the most important traits a secret agent can have is the ability to read people, to guess their intentions or lifestyle by studying them. James Bond can do that very well, and Fleming does a excellent  job of illustrating that trait. First when ever Bond meets someone Fleming goes into a very detailed description of what they look like , what they are wearing, and what this can tell us about them ( a basic example would be  expensive cigarettes mean high quality taste, rich, maybe over confident, as they purchase and over priced cigarette(rich) and smoke/ show it off (over confident) in public). Through this we can see two very essential and interesting things. First we see how Bond's mind works and how his so vital assumptions are made. We are given reasons and assumptions which will help us later in the book. Also these descriptions tell us about the character , what their personality is like and how they think along with giving us a very detailed physical description. These passages are fun and interesting to read, and Fleming is fast becoming one of my favorite authors to read.

007

So This is my first blog, and for this outside reading assignment I have decided to read the novels that one of my favorite film series is based off. Thats right 007. As you may or may not have known the James Bond books were written by a man named Ian Fleming. For this quarter I have decided to read the two novels ThunderBall and Goldfinger. Right now I am reading Thunderball.

So on this post I am going to talk about the character of James Bond and my first impressions of the character in the novel as opposed to the movies.

Thunderball begins with Bond being very ashamed of himself for he has a horrible hangover , has and has been smoking a drinking to much( and as he is being ashamed of himself he pours another drink). Right away we are given a view of Bond that the movies haven't expressed before. This Bond is a struggling alcoholic who's life outside of his missions is in turmoil. I think that it is interesting to have a character who is so good at saving the world, fighting bad guys, and spying, and yet he can't even manage his own personal life. The movies seem to depict Bond in a much lighter manner, a person who's only problem is getting the girl, the martini, or the pun at the right time. Thats not who Ian Fleming wrote. He wrote someone who is very insecure about himself , his only secure thing is his work, which he is excellent  at. This is shaping up to be a very interesting character study along with a thrilling action book. 

Welcome

So this is my blog , Hope you enjoy it?
Lars