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A review by seano312
On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming
4.0
This wasn't the worst Bond story.
It takes place in Europe, so the chauvinism and bigotry is against ugly Swiss women with yellow piggy eyes, and creepy Germans with "syphilitic nostrils."
Bond finds his match with Tracy, who is a a beautiful, damaged woman (his favorite) with a powerful crime-boss father. He's the head of the Corsican mafia. Which means he's a good guy, because French > Italian. (Ha, more Euro-centric bigotry.)
Bond ends up playing Baccarat (again) and does a daring ski escape (with avalanche), and a bobsled chase (with grenades.)
As the middle novel in the "Spectre" trilogy, it end on a downer (just like "the Empire Strikes Back") but we know Bond will be back in the third installment.
The interesting thing about the Bond novels is there's no fancy "tech gimmicks" like you see in the movies. Bond's "disappearing ink" is urine, and he has to improvise a lock-pick by stealing a strip of plastic. He's still a BAMF, but unlike the movie Bond, when he gets hit, he gets hurt bad. He still recovers quicker than Wolverine though.
Recommended to Bond fans.
It takes place in Europe, so the chauvinism and bigotry is against ugly Swiss women with yellow piggy eyes, and creepy Germans with "syphilitic nostrils."
Bond finds his match with Tracy, who is a a beautiful, damaged woman (his favorite) with a powerful crime-boss father. He's the head of the Corsican mafia. Which means he's a good guy, because French > Italian. (Ha, more Euro-centric bigotry.)
Bond ends up playing Baccarat (again) and does a daring ski escape (with avalanche), and a bobsled chase (with grenades.)
As the middle novel in the "Spectre" trilogy, it end on a downer (just like "the Empire Strikes Back") but we know Bond will be back in the third installment.
The interesting thing about the Bond novels is there's no fancy "tech gimmicks" like you see in the movies. Bond's "disappearing ink" is urine, and he has to improvise a lock-pick by stealing a strip of plastic. He's still a BAMF, but unlike the movie Bond, when he gets hit, he gets hurt bad. He still recovers quicker than Wolverine though.
Recommended to Bond fans.