This was an age that had not yet invented "decompression" (a modern technique in superhero comics which uses slow, thoughtful, literary pacing to increase a scene's impact or humour, still controversial among fans who, bafflingly, feel it represents bad value for money).
Nino Ghelli of Bianco e Nero regretted that after "an excellent beginning, the style of the film remains harmonious for some time until the moment when the two main characters are separated, at which point the tone becomes increasingly artificial and literary, the pace increasingly fragmentary and incoherent".
Ultimately, the book's failings are literary -- matters of pacing, dialogue, composition.
Finely intelligent, often superbly written, with flashingly brilliant sentences, "The Girls" is also a symptomatic product not of the sixties but of our own age: a nicely paced literary-commercial début whose brilliant style, in the end, seems to restrict its reach and depth.
"The novel will maintain the persona of James Bond as Fleming created him and the unique tone the author brought to his books, while incorporating my own literary trademarks: detailed research, fast pacing and surprise twists".
He has already started writing the book, which is out next May, and promised it would retain "the persona of James Bond as Fleming created him and the unique tone the author brought to his books", while also incorporating his own "literary trademarks: detailed research, fast pacing and surprise twists".
The play, which was written a year before September 11 , 2001 has come to New York via the Moscow Art Theatre and London's Royal Court — a trajectory that announces both its literary pedigree and a certain stately pace.
The zombie invasion of the literary world has stepped up a pace with cult zombie film director George A Romero signed up to write his debut novel, The Living Dead, which will reveal "the origin of the zombie realm".
In her review of Ian McEwan's new novel, "Saturday" (March 20), Zoe Heller praises McEwan for marrying "literary seriousness and ambition with a pace and momentum more commonly associated with genre fiction".
Literary precision includes the idea of effect, pace, register, intensity and much else.
