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Title: This is NOT the best of Fleming!
Review: Well, after writing so many wonderful books Ian Fleming obviously thought he could get away with writing a bad one. There are a few good points, the character of Vivienne Michel is well written, but the first half of the book is nothing more than a soppy love story (or two, come to think of it) and Bond doesn't even appear until the last third. The villains, Sluggsy and Horror, are dirty, unsophisticated gangsters rather than the usual dignified megalomaniacs. I can't say how many times better the film is.
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