Romance Gets Better with Good Meals and Drinks!! by Ava Archer

The Golden Age of adventure was in the rearview mirror, during the Fifties, but Alistair MacLean, Helen MacInnes, Geoffrey Household, and newcomers Lionel Davidson and Len Deighton, did some of their best work during these years. straightforward combat), is a favorite of General David Petraeus’s. PS: Jean Lartéguy’s The Centurions, whose context is the complexity of guerrilla warfare and insurgency (vs. In contrast to Bond’s rococo thrills, Graham Greene, and John le Carré gave us morally ambiguous - yet suspenseful, exciting - espionage adventures. I enjoyed these books as an adolescent, but find them unreadable now. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Fleming’s first Bond book, Casino Royale, appeared in the cusp year of 1953 before 1964, he’d publish Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia, with Love, Dr. JOSH GLENN’S *BEST ADVENTURES* LISTS: BEST 250 ADVENTURES OF THE 20TH CENTURY | 100 BEST OUGHTS ADVENTURES | 100 BEST RADIUM AGE (PROTO-)SCI-FI ADVENTURES | 100 BEST TEENS ADVENTURES | 100 BEST TWENTIES ADVENTURES | 100 BEST THIRTIES ADVENTURES | 75 BEST GOLDEN AGE SCI-FI ADVENTURES | 100 BEST FORTIES ADVENTURES | 100 BEST FIFTIES ADVENTURES | 100 BEST SIXTIES ADVENTURES | 75 BEST NEW WAVE SCI FI ADVENTURES | 100 BEST SEVENTIES ADVENTURES | 100 BEST EIGHTIES ADVENTURES | 75 BEST DIAMOND AGE SCI-FI ADVENTURES | 100 BEST NINETIES ADVENTURES | NOTES ON 21st-CENTURY ADVENTURES. I hope that the information and opinions below are helpful to your own reading please let me know what I’ve overlooked.

Although it remains a work in progress, and is subject to change, this BEST ADVENTURES OF THE FIFTIES list complements and supersedes the preliminary “Best Fifties Adventure” list that I first published, here at HILOBROW, in 2013. This page lists my 100 favorite adventures published during the cultural era known as the Fifties (1954–1963, according to HILOBROW’s periodization schema).

Romance Gets Better with Good Meals and Drinks!! by Ava Archer