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Just for the heck of it I clicked on "Victor Appleton" under the author list & saw that there are zip, zero, zilch, nada, nein, no postings.
I think Ian Fleming should be listed, after all he couldn't be anymore ignored (or unpopular) than Victor Appleton. I'd definitely start some threads and contribute a few book reviews and/or quizzes.
In the meantime, what is your favorite James Bond novel?
Mine is You Only Live Twice.
Please see http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=17769 especially:
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Any other authors whose works are copyright protected and do not have any works in the public domain (ie: books, plays, essays, poetry etc etc published after 1923) do not have their own forum*, but can be discussed in the General Literature forum here: http://www.online-literature.com/for...isplay.php?f=4
I wonder if Logos has a running tab on how many times in a year she posts that poor copyright cut off rule.:p
lol, no, I don't keep track :) It's nice to get feedback from members new or old on what they'd like to see here, I do keep track of that, if it's stuff that's in the PD.
I'd like a better font, actually. Gutenberg is touch and go on that; LitNet is so-so. A good computer readability text is hard to come by, which is why I wish I would just go ahead and get my kindle, but I need to wait until I stabilize from relocation aftermath. I am not okay yet, but that is another story...
If you ever read a Tom Swift book (which I have as a child) THEN reread as an adult there would be no wonder to the lack of postings --Tom Swift Circling the Globe with the whale picture frontispiece remains a happy memory. As to Fleming asfter some thought has to be On Her Majesty's Secret Service (and yes I have read them all).
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Originally Posted by Don Quixote Jr
I voraciously read most of Ian Fleming's output in the late sixties, when I was in High School, and also while traveling alone in the British Ilsles, at age seventeen.
I could "see" the described scenes, so have no complaints about Ian Fleming's writing at all.
Later on in life I got into Doestoyevsky, who probably has better character development, but Ian Fleming was one of the few authors I sought out during my formative years, among others like John Steinbeck. I greatly preferred Fleming to Steinbeck then, though have grown to appreciate some Steinbeck more now too.
My favorite was Doctor No.
The image of the crabs creeped me out!