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hans_the_bold for this one. Over dinner, we'd been talking about James Bond on the page versus James Bond onscreen (I'd recently seen From Russia, With Love for the first time, and I still think it's far and away the best of the Connery Bonds I've seen so far: Goldfinger has the title song and Honor Blackman, but it also has lasers and grandiose plans involving nukes) and while truepenny can undoubtedly discourse more learnedly on this topic than I, it was somewhere in the discussion of the weird casual sexism that characterizes much of Ian Fleming's writing that the Gor books entered the picture. All of which goes to say that I spent about an hour and a half tonight reading John Norman's Assassin of Gor (1970), for which I feel the need to make some kind of academic justification. We shall see if it works.
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hans_the_bold for this one. Over dinner, we'd been talking about James Bond on the page versus James Bond onscreen (I'd recently seen From Russia, With Love for the first time, and I still think it's far and away the best of the Connery Bonds I've seen so far: Goldfinger has the title song and Honor Blackman, but it also has lasers and grandiose plans involving nukes) and while truepenny can undoubtedly discourse more learnedly on this topic than I, it was somewhere in the discussion of the weird casual sexism that characterizes much of Ian Fleming's writing that the Gor books entered the picture. All of which goes to say that I spent about an hour and a half tonight reading John Norman's Assassin of Gor (1970), for which I feel the need to make some kind of academic justification. We shall see if it works.(Cut for textual analysis and winceworthy prose.)
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