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Title: Benson sometimes make me yearn for Gardner
Review: I don't why so many don't like Gardner. The man wrote more Bond novels than anyone else, and while of course Fleming was the original and the best, Gardner turned out some very good books (as well as the inevitable bad ones.) But he was a good, established writer, something Benson clearly is not. He's just over his head trying to write novels. Gardner was not perfect, heck, he had me wanting something much more plenty of times, but he at least had a good formula going often, which is what Bond is all about in book and film--formula. The writing from Benson is so bad, and his attempts to recall Fleming are almost pathetic. Perhaps another British spy novel writer can take over this franchise, because I do not want to see it in Benson's hands for too much longer.
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