http://toddsmovieblog.com/2008/11/02/borders-revelation/ Todd Gault's thoughts on movies and entertainment Sun, 20 May 2012 10:10:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://toddsmovieblog.com/2008/11/02/borders-revelation/#comment-137 Neal Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:27:40 +0000 http://toddsmovieblog.com/?p=110#comment-137 I guess I was lucky that I didn't start reading the Bond books until I was in college (whereas I started on the Doc Savage books at the appropriate age of 13). By college, I was yearning to live the globe trotting, fine dining, women bedding lifestyle of the literary James Bond. The lack of high flying stunts didn't bother me as much, and I appreciated the more realistic violence of the books over the movies. I mean, Bond actually got scratched and bruised in the books! If you like a more hard boiled spy, I recommend the Matt Helm novels. They are nothing like the Dean Martin spoofs and are much more violent and gritty than Bond. I guess I was lucky that I didn’t start reading the Bond books until I was in college (whereas I started on the Doc Savage books at the appropriate age of 13). By college, I was yearning to live the globe trotting, fine dining, women bedding lifestyle of the literary James Bond. The lack of high flying stunts didn’t bother me as much, and I appreciated the more realistic violence of the books over the movies. I mean, Bond actually got scratched and bruised in the books! If you like a more hard boiled spy, I recommend the Matt Helm novels. They are nothing like the Dean Martin spoofs and are much more violent and gritty than Bond.

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