Talk:Goldfinger (novel)

Revised version of novel?
Wikipedia's article for Oddjob includes the unsourced statement that a second, revised edition of this novel was published in which some references to martial arts were corrected. This is the first time I've ever heard of this. Is anyone aware of Fleming releasing a revised version of the book? It is certainly important information to include here if so. (And if the information is incorrect, it should be removed from the Oddjob article.) 50.66.121.20 (talk) 13:40, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * It is not something that I have ever seen in any of the sources I've seen (although I haven't dug around everything on the subject). - SchroCat (talk) 13:51, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Plot
Might be worth mentioning that, as Sean Connery explains in the film version, the novel's plot is unworkable. Ian Fleming made the usual and rather vulgar mistake of imagining that gold is much more valuable in relation to its weight and bulk than it actually is. (The same problem famously applies to The Italian Job, and to the otherwise excellent and esteemed 1969 British TV series The Gold Robbers.) If you try to rob Fort Knox, it would take so long to load and transport a worthwhile amount of the depository's gold bullion that the US authorities are pretty much bound to interrupt and detain you. The film substitutes a much cleverer plan, to detonate a 'dirty' atomic bomb in the vault, irradiating the US gold reserve and pretty certainly causing economic chaos in the West. Khamba Tendal (talk) 19:02, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah, so you've read the article's Adaptations section then...? ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 19:10, 30 December 2023 (UTC)