Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod

By John Rain

This fully updated edition includes the 25th Bond film, No Time To Die, and also features a chapter covering Never Say Never Again, which starred Sean Connery as Bond but was not an official Eon film.
The Bond films have entertained annoyed, excited, bored, aroused and invigorated cinemagoers (and ITV4 viewers) for more than fifty years. Who hasn't wanted to kick a big bloke with metal teeth in the groin? Fly a small plane out of a pretend horse's bottom? Or push a middle-aged man into space? No one, that's who.
Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod affectionately examines Bond with tongue firmly in cheek and elbow dug in ribs. Join John Rain as he goes film-by-film through the Bond saga as he points out all the good, the bad, and the double-taking pigeons contained within Bond's half-century of world domination.
With one chapter for each of the twenty-five films, Thunderbook examines all the moments that are funny, silly, rubbish, nonsensical, bizarre and interesting, with the ultimate intention of celebrating Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and becoming the go-to companion book for the Bond fan at large.

• Language: English
• Publisher: POLARIS
• Release date: Nov 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9781788853279

John Rain

John Rain is a Bond fanatic, and the host of the cult podcast Smersh Pod. He lives in Sussex in an abandoned volcano

Reviews for Thunderbook

[aadyer · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Amusing, fan boy, yet instructive, this ranks up there with Tyne best of the books of the podcast books. I’m sorry to say that the only things that I could find wrong with it, was some jarring continuity errors in the descriptions of the films, and the awful editing and typos. Apart from that, it was funny, to the point of being laugh out loud funny, and also erudite in its running criticism of the films. The humour was a little uneven at times, but it really got me in stitches in places. Recommended to those Bond fans who are die hard, or just watching the Bank Holiday reruns. It would also appeal to modernist humour and does, thankfully, point out what a misogynistic character the early Bond was.