There’s a thing that chocolate cookies and James Bond novels have in common: they are both guilty pleasures of mine. I shouldn’t like them so much, but I do… and I’m a bit ashamed of it. Like I wouldn’t eat a whole package of chocolate cookies during my train commute, I wouldn’t read a James Bond novel in plain sight of my fellow commuters. I’d feel too self-conscious to take in any of the words. Both cookies and novels should be consumed in the privacy of your own home, preferably on a comfortable chair with a nice cup of tea. And now my embarrassment levels are going to be tested again, there is a new James Bond novel coming out, and I’m pre-ordering.
On 28 May 2008 it’s Ian Flemings 100th birthday and on that day Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks is released, a brand new James Bond novel. And praise the lord, it is situated during the Cold War. Those communists make damn good fictional bad-guys.
Thank god there is a semi naked chick on the cover, that will make my commute so much easier.
gr.jakko
