Talk:Live and Let Die (novel)

message: Hi, I will not have internet access next week (until Oct 2nd), but I will sort out any issues you may have from that time on. Cheers -  SchroCat (^ • @) 10:20, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upcoming GA Review 

message: Why was the book banned in Ireland? Was it the extensive use of the ne-word?--ML5 (talk) 12:01, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ireland ban 

message: I seem to have just missed the PR. 
*Link voodoo in lede?
*Delink Jamaica in plot
*"He disagreed with something that ate him".[1] Bond then investigates the warehouse himself and discovers that Mr Big is smuggling gold by placing it in the bottom of fish tanks holding poisonous tropical fish. He is attacked in the warehouse by Mr Big's gunman, the "Robber", and in the resultant gunfight Bond outwits the Robber and causes him to fall into the shark tank."   -License to Kill haha!!
*"Bond's arrival at New York's Idlewild Airport was inspired by Fleming's own arrivals " -might reword one "arrival" to avoid repetition.
*"and the warehouse at which Leiter is attacked by a shark was based on a warehouse " -warehouse too
*Solitaire bird -I think you should display the proper name here and in the photo caption and refer to it as the  Rufous-throated solitaire bird.
*Patrick Leigh Fermor's book The Traveller's Tree, -year in brackets or before "book"?
* Captain Blood - (1935) ?
*"Bond's friendship is evident in the story.[29] Despite the friendship," -rep of friendship
*"The skin was grey-black, taut and shining like the face of a week-old corpse in the river",[38] and as being intellectually brilliant. -The "and as being intellectually brilliant doesn't seem supported by the earlier prose here. "was described as being intellectually brilliant" would seem better?  How about "Mr Big is described as being intellectually brilliant, with a "great football of a head, twice the normal size and very nearly round" and skin which was "grey-black, taut and shining like the face of a week-old corpse in the river".?
*s "merely incompetent gunsels when compared with a British gentleman-secret agent", whom Bond can eliminate with relative ease." -I'm not sure the value of the quote here, especially in an already quote-heavy section— I'd paraphrase it.
:*I paraphrased most, but left a small stub of a quote ("merely incompetent gunsels") as I think it would loose impact if that bit is paraphrased. - SchroCat (talk) 10:26, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: *The sources have no idea - even the primary one doesn't say why. I've added a note to make this clear, as a few people have asked previously. - SchroCat (talk) 09:44, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

text: *I think both are OK with drugs being more acceptable in BrEng. I'm not 100% sure by any means, so sending up the bat signal for  to give an opinion either way... - SchroCat (talk) 09:44, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

text: **I'd go for "drug baron" too. The OED likes it, and gives examples of its use from 1914 onwards. Tim riley talk  09:51, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

text: ***Well drug baron it is then! Many thanks Tim - SchroCat (talk) 10:04, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It sounds more evil I think!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:57, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

text: *Mostly done otherwise, with a couple more still to address. All now sorted. Thanks very much for your thoughts - all good stuff. - SchroCat (talk) 10:19, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
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