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that it was lucky, to have caused minimal damage. May have been better ?
The fact that it happens I have no gripes with, but the way especially M reacts to it I do. Exactly in a line of 'oh well, that's their problem then'. Also, the political implications would be huge. So his reaction is illogical at best. He should've just told Bond it's a terrible situation but the loss of life has been contained. Anyway, I find it a huge weak spot after such a tense bit of writing. Seemed to me Fleming was done with it and just wanted to finish it.
LALD isn't racist at all. It is simply reflective of the times.....in fact Bond is actually forward thinking for his generation.
MR is a tad 'down to earth' for my tastes. I prefer DN, more exiting and exotic.
watch out for it, the next time I read it.
Gala Brand was originally in DAD, until the character name changed in Miranda Frost. They should use it though.
I like the desriptions of life in the secret service, the relationship between Bond and M, Bond s inner thoughts...
Must say, I do agree with @CommanderRoss regarding the result of the rocket landing in the sea. At the same time, the way M described this, didn't make me think so much about it while reading. Strange..
There are a lot of good Gardners left to go to be honest with you.
Thanks! up 'till now I've been fairly alone in this critisism. But then again, I'm Dutch... ;-)
No, in all seriousness, it's very strange. It got me wondering why Fleming chose that ending at all. He was a good enough writer to come up with something better, and surely, he would be aware what the consequences of such a incident could do.
A fast cracking read with probably the best torture scene ever written. Fleming puts you right in that room with Bond and Le Chiffre and it seems so genuine you'd have thought Fleming himself has actually suffered it!
YOLT novel next!
That's with all his torture scenes. I still cringe every time I read those. Just finished LALD and by [insert holy creature here] I was shivering at the thought of Solitaire and Bond beeing dragged over the reefs behind the Secatur! His writing is so colourful you start to feel all your senses respond to what's going to happen to them.
I think his skill as a journalist really comes across in his writing.
Which is why even the some of the more outlandish scenes from the books seem plausible!
The millipede crawling up Bond in Dr No. :)
And why doesn't Bond 1: blow himself up, as he intends in the first place (yes, i know, no more Bond), or 2: try to warn the officials when they come to the launch site to fire the weapon. He can hear the minister talking to Drax so I presume the minister would hear him if he'd shouted. And iguess they'd not fire a missile from a launching site where two bedraggled figures just have been found (or even dead if Drax has the chance) before inspecting it completely.
Not a very good ending to what is an exciting novel. On to Diamonds now.
That's good to hear. I found the book improved toward the end. I was ok with Gardner taking influence from the movies rather than fleming. But the main villain was so easily fooled by bond, and he was rattling off screeds of exposition in every chapter. Perhaps my biggest issue is the author rarely left anything for the reader to discover. A lot of telegraphing. Having said that - Gardner had a couple of good scenes - the escape by car from the castle and on foot through the French village. But I'm hoping the storylines are a little more surprising as they go on.
After I was done with Fleming, I gave myself some time off and tackled the Gardner books. I admire his effort, but, I fell off during the climax of SCORPIOUS. I gave up. The character had the name, Bond. James Bond. But didn't feel like Bond.
So I jumped right back into CR. Blew my mind, as always. And now I'm reading OHMSS (which I usually read at Christmas). But, Fleming, being Fleming, I always catch something new: Like Bond detests shoes with laces, and; his dislike for pyjamas is well known, but, in CR he wears something of a compromise, a robe that's short of the sleeve (under the elbow), and wraps with a tie.
I think this time out, I will read 007 adventures where love plays a role that interferes with our agent: I've done CR; I'm into OHMSS, and; I'll finish with Kissy and YOLT.
Only about the third time I've read this.
Great opening with a depressed Bond and the 'impossible mission' to cure him. Wonderful scene between Bond and M. The first time Bond has ever seen M bring his fist down on his desk in anger!
The lengthy scenes between Bond and Tanaka are wonderfully written with lots of detail regarding the Japanese way of life, a lot of which Bond finds amusing. Love the dialogue when Bond discovers there are no swear words in the Japanese language!
Coming up to the great moment where Bond discovers who Dr Shatterhand really is!
The last book I read was L&LD & that was well over 18 months ago.
Just finished gold finger. The last 1/3 lets it down as goldfingers plot is so unrealistic that it loses any realism
You need to have one in the toilet! You can read on the job so to speak!