re: #151 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

My 9th grade English teacher said roughly the same thing about Dr. No and From Russia With Love after a classmate chose them for a book report. This was just after the movies came out. She went so far as to denounce them, and the student, in front of the class.

I wonder what she’d have made of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” or “The Spy Who Came In From The Cold”? They might have been acceptably “literary” to escape the genre ghetto.

Having read the Bond books is why I really like Daniel Craig the most as Bond. There was always a much nastier edge to the book’s anti-hero than the movies ever captured until I watched that opening sequence in the lavatory from Casino Royale.