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'Live and Let Die' Large Print, 6 January 2006

mccartney007 View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 00489 \| Posts: 3169 Commander RNR Group: Veterans Reserve Enlisted: 27 July 2001 From: Los Angeles, California	5 December 2005 - 09:32 Post #1
	From CBn's main page... Ian Fleming's 'Live And Let Die' Large Print Coming in January Pre-order now, released 6 January 2006 ---UPDATE--- Ian Fleming's 'Live And Let Die' Large Print Now Shipping Order now This post has been edited by Qwerty: 25 January 2006 - 21:57 �Is it a delicious dessert you live in?� - Me, because I�m funny.

Qwerty View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 002175 \| Posts: 80733 Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York	6 December 2005 - 04:53 Post #2
	Now on the CBn mainpage! Nice find Jordan. I'll definitely be getting mine. ~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other *♦ ♦ ♦ Are You Ready To Go? ♦ ♦ ♦*

marktmurphy View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 00798 \| Posts: 5796 Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 20 June 2002 From: London	6 December 2005 - 09:55 Post #3
	And I thought Bond cover design couldn't get worse. That's just unutterably appalling. What the hell is a Healey doing on there anyway?

spynovelfan View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 002769 \| Posts: 5221 Commander CMG Group: Veterans Enlisted: 3 May 2004	6 December 2005 - 10:08 \| Post #4
	Yeah, pretty dire cover, that. The guy looks too young, the woman looks nothing like Solitaire (and is it just me or is she a bit plain?), the car's wrong - it looks like young James Bond has a new mobile he is dangling around. The gun looks pasted in at the last minute... Not that I'm picky or anything! But come on! Not a good cover at all. Good book, though. Author of FREE AGENT, out in the UK, Canada and US in spring 2009

marktmurphy View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 00798 \| Posts: 5796 Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 20 June 2002 From: London	6 December 2005 - 10:13 Post #5
	Oh, it's the American cover. I think those 50's style illustration-y covers they got a couple of years ago were the only American Bond covers that have been near to decent (and they missed the mark slightly, if you ask me). Do they not have any graphic designers over there?

spynovelfan View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 002769 \| Posts: 5221 Commander CMG Group: Veterans Enlisted: 3 May 2004	6 December 2005 - 10:29 \| Post #6
	Are we sure this is the right cover, though? Could it not somehow be a leak from Charlie Higson's novelisation of THE BOY WITH THE GOLDEN PEN starring Ryan Philippe? Ah, pleasing Bond fans isn't an easy game, is it? Author of FREE AGENT, out in the UK, Canada and US in spring 2009

Bon-san View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 00133 \| Posts: 4114 Commander RNR Group: Veterans Reserve Enlisted: 14 December 2001 From: USA	6 December 2005 - 12:50 Post #7
	QUOTE(marktmurphy @ 6 December 2005 - 05:13) Do they not have any graphic designers over there? I heard they were shipped off to the same deserted island as the British chefs. 'It reads better than it lives.'

marktmurphy View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 00798 \| Posts: 5796 Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 20 June 2002 From: London	6 December 2005 - 12:53 Post #8
	QUOTE(Bon-san @ 6 December 2005 - 12:50) QUOTE(marktmurphy @ 6 December 2005 - 05:13) Do they not have any graphic designers over there? I heard they were shipped off to the same deserted island as the British chefs. You've lost me.

Flavius View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 005746 \| Posts: 38 Midshipman Group: Crew Enlisted: 22 October 2005	6 December 2005 - 15:17 Post #9
	QUOTE(marktmurphy @ 6 December 2005 - 17:55) And I thought Bond cover design couldn't get worse. That's just unutterably appalling. What the hell is a Healey doing on there anyway? Funnily enough, I've often thought that an Austin Healey would have been a great car for literary (1950s) Bond to drive around in (I haven't read LALD... does any character drive one in it?). That being so, I think the reason it got onto the cover was that someone has gotten 'Austin-Healey' confused with 'Aston-Martin' and selected the wrong picture..... I actually own an Austin Healey. The little Sprite model, not the larger 3000. It astonishes me how many people say to me "Is that thing related to that car that used to be in the James Bond movies?"

marktmurphy View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 00798 \| Posts: 5796 Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 20 June 2002 From: London	6 December 2005 - 17:15 Post #10
	QUOTE(Flavius @ 6 December 2005 - 15:17) QUOTE(marktmurphy @ 6 December 2005 - 17:55) And I thought Bond cover design couldn't get worse. That's just unutterably appalling. What the hell is a Healey doing on there anyway? Funnily enough, I've often thought that an Austin Healey would have been a great car for literary (1950s) Bond to drive around in (I haven't read LALD... does any character drive one in it?). That being so, I think the reason it got onto the cover was that someone has gotten 'Austin-Healey' confused with 'Aston-Martin' and selected the wrong picture..... I actually own an Austin Healey. The little Sprite model, not the larger 3000. It astonishes me how many people say to me "Is that thing related to that car that used to be in the James Bond movies?" Yes, my dad had a 3000. Lovely thing; not too far off Bond's type of motor although maybe not quite exclusive enough. I read today that the Healey 5000 should be unveiled next year, which is fun news.

Qwerty View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 002175 \| Posts: 80733 Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York	6 December 2005 - 19:11 Post #11
	The man's head looks rather wide in that cover. Maybe its the blur. ~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other *♦ ♦ ♦ Are You Ready To Go? ♦ ♦ ♦*

Flash1087 View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 005477 \| Posts: 1017 Lt. Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 1 October 2005 From: Michigan	7 December 2005 - 04:42 Post #12
	I dunno how I feel about this. I LOVE LALD as a novel, but...do I really need a large-print version? And furthermore...what's with that atrocious cover? This is the part I wouldn't show you. The part where you say "I don't even know you". This is your cue. Be glad that it's through...

Qwerty View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 002175 \| Posts: 80733 Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York	7 December 2005 - 04:44 Post #13
	QUOTE(Flash1087 @ 6 December 2005 - 23:42) I dunno how I feel about this. I LOVE LALD as a novel, but...do I really need a large-print version? If you're a literary Bond collector, yes. ~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other *♦ ♦ ♦ Are You Ready To Go? ♦ ♦ ♦*

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