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COLONEL SUN: A JAMES BOND ADVENTURE by Robert Markham. 244 pages. Harper...
...most devoted fans, including his publishers, simply could not bear to live without him. Although Ian Fleming died almost four years ago, his creature, James Bond, is back, resuscitated by British Author Kingsley Amis.* A specialist on 007, as he proved three years ago in the James Bond Dossier, Amis provides a reasonably healthy, if slightly pale, replica. It remains to be seen whether the trans planted heart will function smoothly (and profitably), or whether it will provoke rejection symptoms. The new Bond lacks much of the comic-book charm that connected so well when the camp craze...
...standard 007 diversion, weapons and women are fondled with equal ardor, though sex is not nearly as important as the inflicting and suffering of physical pain. Indeed, Amis hits an almost pornographic intensity as his Bond gets his eardrums probed with a meat skewer, his septum stimulated by a broom straw, and his frontal lobe pummeled with an incessant and derivative yak about the spiritual union between the tormented and the tormentor. The pedantic sadist is Colonel Sun of the People's Liberation Army of China, who wants to blow up some Russians and then blame the incident...
...With permission from Glidrose Productions, owners of Fleming's copyrights, who are obviously hoping to reopen the Bond gold mine, Amis is writing as "Robert Markham," although the reason is obscure. His real name is given right under the pen name, making one long for the good old days when pseudonyms were really pseudo...
Characterized by acquaintances as sarcastic, facetious and sometimes brilliantly witty, The The Lampoon was recently acclaimed for its Time and Playboy parodies and for Alligator, a parody of the James Bond spy stories. The Harvard Lampoon, has always suffered from irregular health, even during the years it nurtured writers like John Updike and George Plimpton. But in the past year and a half it has shown a marked decline, and its recent extensive exploration of America taxed it irreperably...