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Dec 2, 2007 - 10:37 AM
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MusicMad
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Hi, Neotrinity, you've struck a rich stream of gold here with me, MusicMad: I've not long finished re-reading the whole series of books (some for the second time, several for the third - or more - time, albeit first read only of the final collection of stories).
Perhaps a little light for some tastes; perhaps too "pulp-like" for others' ...
... but nigh-on perfect for me. As you so rightly point out, the relationship between MB and her trusty companion Willie Garvin is a delight to enjoy.
There are so many high points in stories well-crafted, thoroughly involving, often unpredictable.
***Possible Spoiler***
One such is in the middle section of The Impossible Virgin: You (the reader) know that WG is dead - the scene is set and there is no escape (pushed out of a plane w/o parachute ... several years before 007 in Moonraker). Days later and MB knows he is dead; MB decides it is time to take action and goes for the bad guy knowing full well she can not reach him before he shoots her. And then she hears WG's voice ...
It's fanciful, it's daft, it's not poetry and it's not high quality prose. But if you're in the mood for a great, entertaining read full of action and suspense you could hardly do better.
As for the movie: I'd love to see it again - after 30+ years - but what I recall of it, it's rubbish and has little resemblance to the novel.
The comic strips that I read many years ago were good fun but it is the novels to which I will turn again for another read (I hope) before ...
So, yes, Neotrinity: I'm with you all the way on this topic!
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RIP, PETER O’DONNELL: April 11, 1920-May 3, 2010.
His intention was to bring forth "a woman who, though fully feminine, would be as good in combat and action as any male, if not better. My character would have to have had a childhood of unrelenting struggle, in which she had been tested to the very core by danger, loneliness, fear and every kind of hardship, a child with a diamond-hard will to survive," he told Crime Time. "Of course, I had seen this very child 20 years before, and knew she was the perfect prototype for the character I would eventually call
"Peter O'Donnell was respected as one of the greatest writers in the comics medium today and had a devout following among comics professionals and fans alike", said Nick Landau, managing director of Titan, O'Donnell's publisher,
who knew the author personally. "I am honoured to have known him – and published his greatest creations,
Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin – for almost 40 years."
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MM and Neo, your enthusiasm for the novels has won me over and I'll try to pick a few up.I was sorry to hear of Peter O'Donnell's passing.
I love John Dankworth's score for the movie but it's a real shame that Harkit got their fingers on it.
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I love Losey's film of Modesty Blaise - just supremely weird and, for me, wonderful. I have an original Holdaway strip from the comic - one of the best as it includes two great panels of Modesty and one of her and Willie.
In the first post, the paperback tie-in for the film - the art is by the great Robert McGinnis.
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and, oh dear:
Un"Secret Origins" (With Apologies to D.C.) 
