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Title: Horrid
Review: I've been a big James Bond fan for years and have read and re-read all the Ian Fleming and Kingsley Amis novels a number of times. Gardner's novels I've read exactly one time each and have never had a desire to pick any one of them up again.This one, however, was so bad that I couldn't even finish a first reading. It got so tedious that after finishing less than one-third of the book I had to set it down. That was several years ago, and I haven't had any desire to pick it up again since.It really is too bad that this had to happen because John Gardner really is a good novelist when he puts his heart into it. Sadly, though, his heart was never really with the Bond character. What's even worse for fans of the true Ian Fleming Bond, however, is the fact that the publisher passed the torch to the truly horrid Raymond Benson. Benson's cartoon Bond is lifted straight from the movie screen and makes even Gardner's most mediocre books (like this one) seem like works of genius.
