Two of the 14 books were excluded from the analysis - “The Spy Who Loved Me” was dropped because it was told from the point of view of a waitress who doesn’t introduce Bond until two-thirds of the way into the story, and “Octopussy and the Living Daylights” failed to make the cut because it’s a series of short stories. For starters, they used the books by Sir Ian Fleming as their source material, not the movies. The BMJ’s Christmas issue is known for its wacky medical reports, but the authors who diagnosed James Bond took the matter quite seriously.
