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A review by harlando
On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming
4.0
A ski chase and a luge chase? Who doesn't love that? The hand grenades on the luge track were a nice bonus.
Today I find Bond a little campy, but mostly great. I find myself wondering how I would have taken the books as a contemporary? Would it have been with deadly seriousness, or was a luge chase just as funny in 1963 as it is today?
An plot to ruin English agriculture that somehow manages to rely exclusively on hypnotizing young, good-looking English farm girls was pretty good work on Blofeld's part. I am at a loss as to why Blofeld has a stout, unpleasant girlfriend, beyond serving to emphasize what an evil bastard he is. Which is more evil? A villain who is surrounded by people as blackhearted and ugly as himself, or one who has all of the most beautiful people and the best things even though their wickedness makes them thoroughly undeserving?
Maybe it was a thing back in the day, but the French mafia seemed a bit off. I know they are Corsican, which is kind of French-Italian, but it didn't quite do it for me.
Today I find Bond a little campy, but mostly great. I find myself wondering how I would have taken the books as a contemporary? Would it have been with deadly seriousness, or was a luge chase just as funny in 1963 as it is today?
An plot to ruin English agriculture that somehow manages to rely exclusively on hypnotizing young, good-looking English farm girls was pretty good work on Blofeld's part. I am at a loss as to why Blofeld has a stout, unpleasant girlfriend, beyond serving to emphasize what an evil bastard he is. Which is more evil? A villain who is surrounded by people as blackhearted and ugly as himself, or one who has all of the most beautiful people and the best things even though their wickedness makes them thoroughly undeserving?
Maybe it was a thing back in the day, but the French mafia seemed a bit off. I know they are Corsican, which is kind of French-Italian, but it didn't quite do it for me.