There’s a similar shaken-to-stirred ratio at work in “Nobody Does It Better,” Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross’s “complete, uncensored, unauthorized oral history” of the films. The book concerns only the Bond films, ignoring Fleming’s novels and short stories, as well as those penned by other writers after Fleming’s death in 1964. Various Bond comic strips and graphic novels have been published since 1958, predating the film series by several years. In the 21st century, the BBC has produced a marvelous series of radio plays, adapting Fleming’s Bond novels with more fidelity than most of the movies did. Nobody Does It Better: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of James BondBy Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross

Source: Washington Post February 12, 2020 12:56 UTC