FREE COLONEL SUN: JAMES BOND 007 PDF Kingsley Amis | 352 pages | 15 Dec 2015 | Vintage Publishing | 9781784871451 | English | London, United Kingdom Gustav Graves - James Bond Wiki Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Colonel Sun by Robert Markham. Kingsley Amis. Robert Markham. The life of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 complacency The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island, where Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the People's Liberation Army of Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 collaborates with an ex-Nazi atrocity expert in a world-menacing conspiracy. Stripped of all p The life of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency Stripped of all Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 aids, Bond faces, unarmed, the monstrous devices of Colonel Sun in a test that brings him to the verge of his physical endurance. Get A Copy. Published November 1st by Blackstone Audiobooks first published March 28th More Details Original Title. James Bond - Extended Series Aegean Islands Greece. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Colonel Sunplease sign up. Jeff Correll Vintage Books just put out an edition. Amazon has several different editions available. Check them. See 2 questions about Colonel Sun…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 review of Colonel Sun James Bond, Apr 17, F. There was all that fuss the other year about Sebastian Faulks, an actual literary author unlike John Gardner or Raymond Benson being hired to write a James Bond novel. Wasn't it incredible? Proof of the high esteem in which Fleming's writing is held. But ignored in all the coverage was that the Fleming estate had hired a literary author to write a James Bond novel before. One of the things about books like There was all that fuss the other year about Sebastian Faulks, an actual literary author unlike John Gardner or Raymond Benson being hired to write a James Bond novel. One of the things about books like this is that a certain level of pastiche is inevitable. And on this score, Kingsley Amis a writer not traditionally known for his thrillers does Fleming perfectly. He really captures that mix of sex, sadism and the lash — as well as all the excessive consumption that James Bond does so well. Indeed both writers throughout their work gradually become more hard core conservative and reactionary. No doubt if Fleming had lived, Mrs Thatcher would have given him a knighthood too. What more could anyone really want? View all 15 Colonel Sun: James Bond 007. Lost a star for the anti-Chinese racism. Apr 15, Alexander McNabb rated it did not like it. Where do I start? Because Kindles let you do crazy stuff like this, I bought all of Fleming's Bond books and binge- read them. This was interesting as an exercise as it revealed Fleming's preoccupations, booze, misogyny and bigotry very much included. They bear down on the reader with considerable weight. You stagger away from the experience with the impression that Ian Fleming was a really unpleasant wee man who Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 discovered, much as had Elizabeth David, the rewards of offering escapism to the Where do I start? You stagger away from the experience with the impression that Ian Fleming was a really unpleasant wee man who had discovered, much as had Elizabeth David, the rewards of offering escapism to the post-war British. Casino Royale happened to a generation of people still coping with rationing, to whom Bond's Krug-guzzling, leggy blonde fondling, avocado- scooping lifestyle was wonderful indeed. As we started to face the realities of the End of Empire, Bond made us feel relevant. In the s we needed heroes and leggy women in fast cars to liven up our brown world of weak tea, powdered egg and fag smoke. Then Fleming's hooch and nicotine consumption got the better of him and his publishers, faced with that most feared of all publishing disasters - a dead cash cow - farmed Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 the Bond franchise. The first writer of these non-Fleming Bonds was Robert Markham, as eny fule no these days, we're actually talking celebrated satirist and literary giant Kingsley Amis. The whole thing is so very badly done, the writing, dialogue and characters so stilted and the situations so very wooden, that you wonder but then you pull back and debate whether writing very, very badly is the stuff of satire. If this is satire, then it is very subtle indeed for its time - we're looking at fifty-odd years before The Office. Have a look at this - an action scene: "Bond dropped to his knees, shoved out of the way the legs of the man he had stabbed, got his finger through the brass ring of the trapdoor and heaved it aside. The roar of well-tuned machinery and an engine-room smell came up at him. He moved to the deck immediately outside the doorway and there, swiftly and methodically drew from the pouches at his waist the four Mills grenades. Again he made no delay, but with quick deft movements grasped one grenade after another in his right hand, drew out the safety-pin with his left index finger, and tossed all four down the hatchway before the seven-second fuse of the first had had time to release the firing-pin. Then it came, a monstrous pounding, shivering bang underfoot that made the deck boards leap as if struck with a massive hammer, the buzz of flying metal, a wash of flame above the hatchway. It's just not very good. He could hear the roar of fuel-fired combustion. Something aft went up with a kind of puffing bellow and bunch of flame, intensely orange Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 colour, jerked and eddied outwards. He tried to push the thought out of his mind. It was necessary, he told himself. It was duty. Throughout the book, the writing's at best pedestrian. Bond walks quickly and stomachs lurch suddenly, bellies betray no sign Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 fat and calculations are made in split seconds. Reluctantly, I came to the conclusion that no, we're not looking at satire here. We're looking at someone trying to give Bond readers what they want. That finding the good aspects of Bond is rather like searching haystacks perhaps doesn't help. To sum up the plot: nothing much really happens because there's no reason really for anything to happen. M is kidnapped and Bond goes on holiday in Greece. There's a bad Chinese guy and a good Greek guy. There are various other guys who sort of pop in and out. We muck around in boats, eat Greek food and lament the Greeks are quite as lazy and crap as they are, apart from busty Greek bird Ariadne who Bond turns from Communism to enthusiastic screwing - something they indulge in at every opportunity. There are lashings of ouzo. The bad Chinese guy wants to torture Bond to satisfy the code of the Chinese or something. There are more girls. They are Albanian and so like to screw men. There's a man who's a fairy. Oh, yes, I know this is of its time, but still The Chinese are very chinky-winky, the girls are all winky-winky and the fat fairies are very Tinkywinky. It's all so obvious and, well, wearying. I started Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 notes after a while, realising that the only thing keeping me going was that the whole thing was so monumentally bad that it was worth the effort just for the celebration of its total crapness. I finally, with an enormous sigh of relief, got to the end. Colonel Sun | Fanon Wiki | Fandom Colonel Tan-Sun Moonlater known as Sir Gustav Graveswas a fictional North Korean military colonel who attempted to unite the Korean peninsula under his county's flag. After his presumed death at the hands of James Bondhe changed his appearance to infiltrate the society he intended to destroy; becoming a charismatic diamond magnate. He was also featured in Raymond Benson 's accompanying novelisation and was re-imagined for Activision 's James Bond video game, Legends. In a hope that a Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 education would help bridge the gap between East and West, General Moon sent his son to study at Oxford and Harvard. It was an experience which would prove formative on the young Moon, providing him with the contacts which he would later use; including Miranda Frost who was on also on the Harvard fencing team. He was able to bring Frost to his side by arranging her to win the Olympic Gold Medal in fencing by implicating her competitor for using steroids. General Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 would later regret the decision, coming to believe that his son had become corrupted by the ideas and greed of the West. He also had assistance from a fellow Korean officer named Tang Lin Zao.