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Thanks for the review. Which one of the Horowitz trilogy do you like the most?
I'm a big fan of Trigger Mortis but also liked most of Forever and a Day.
Should I read TMWTGG before this? I' ve read it twice but it was a few years ago.
I agree very much with your review here… you can definitely feel The Living Daylights, especially the film version once they hit Moscow. But the twists… telegraph themselves, and are always obvious, and things develop in a way that seems fast and contrived at times. There’s hefty doses of other books and films in there too, enough that anyone familiar with the wider genre is going to notice things — even if those things are rushed, particularly at the end. (Little dashes of, for instance, Harry Palmer, Bridge of Spies, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold — maybe even a dash of Atomic Blonde in a visual sense… not to mention elements of the non-Fleming Bond films, especially the Craig’s.)
I liked the book, I have enjoyed all the Horowitz books to some extent (read them all in the last couple of weeks actually, having finally got round to them) but while they are *great near perfect* Fleming homages, I think that is also their weakness in that they aren’t necessarily as great as stories in and of themselves. The first one, for some reason, reminded me very strongly of Biggles books I read as a child.
This one… well, I would have preferred a different end to the female lead’s tale, which would have required a longer book, and while I see *why* the book ended the way it did, I do not feel that it was particularly satisfying and again, it needed to be longer. Far far too much just left up in the air from the opening, but the ending was… well. The homage would have been less obvious had it not gone for what it was.
Trigger Mortis, although I loved Sixtine in FAAD.
You don't need to reread TMWTGG, Horowitz reminds you everything you need to know ;)
Thanks. You are right. The story needed more pages...
Anyway, Horowitz always hooks you. You read his books very easily and that's a great compliment. Magpie Murders, the Hawthorne series or Alex Rider are great entertainment.
Yeah I just popped it on the shelf and couldn't help but notice it seems much thinner than Forever And A Day.
I already thought that FAAD was much shorter than TM...It's a pity when it feels too short but the other way round would be a bigger problem: too many pages without going on enough. Horowitz definitely never bored me a second so far.
Really? I only own the german translation (around 360 pages) of TM while I bought FAAD in English (around 280 pages). Both are paperbacks. Yes, the typesetting is different and the book of FAAD a bit higher but I was pretty sure that TM was longer.
Horowitz has done the far best job since Gardner’s fifth or sixth Bond novel. It’s a pity this third one is his last.
I won’t read any of the reviews - spoiler or non spoiler until I’ve read the book myself. The same goes for the films from now on. Even when people say, “non spoiler”, spoilers are involved.
Happy Birthday Mr. Fleming!
Do you really live in Pett Bottom? :)
Sadly I do not, but it goes with the username 😄
Petting bottoms is not encouraged these days. ;)
That's the spirit, though I'm broke and figure I may just wait for a cheaper paperback version to release sometime next year. I guess I'm in no hurry, as eager as I am to see how this one pans out.
I didn't feel Bond did anything particularly Bond like in the story. It was quite drab.
The villain's scheme seemed very low scale. It didn't grab me as a BOND story.
Also I wish the end was less ambiguous although we all know how it turned out. An extra paragraph wouldn't have gonna amiss in my book.
Despite being amazingly well written it didn't reach the highs I wished it did.
Silverfinger ?
From China, With Love ?
The Man With the Golden Bullet ?
or, going past Fleming:
Colonel Moon ?
Combo titles for sure.
The Man with the Golden Ball.
From Octopussy With Love.
On Russia’s Majesty’s Secret Service.
Live and Let Her.
Reading it in a nice cozy pub. That sounds really nice.
I don’t think much of the title.
Everyone should check out the Chinese film (with English subtitles), ‘From Beijing With Love’. It’s a parody of the Bond films and it’s hilarious. You even see a clip of Moonraker on the TV in the film. Highly recommend it. Not sure where you’d find it. I hired it from a DVD rental store many years ago. You can buy it on DVD from Amazon though. It’s a keeper!
Finger Your Eyes With Love
The Dame with the Silver Knife
Silvernose
Live and Let Kill
Tomorrow Never Kills
Kill Another Day
No Time To Kill
Easy.