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Title: By no means is the best of the Bond novels...
Review: First of all MAKE SURE this isn't the first James Bond novel you ever read! If you are interested in knowing more about the "literary version" of James Bond, this novel will not impress you. Bond is not even in the book until around chapter 10. You have to read about a woman who falls in love several times, and is a hopeless romantic, and then she moves from England to the United States where she has a chance encounter with James Bond. This novel is more for the "Ian Fleming fan" rather than the "James Bond fan." If you have read a few of Fleming's novels, and you like his style then you may like this book. Let me repeat, BOND IS HARDLY IN THIS BOOK, he's just "tacked on" at the very end of a relatively boring novel. This book is completely different than the movie, there is nothing in common. If you want to read about Bond, and learn about Ian Fleming's version of him, try From Russia With Love, or Live and Let Die, they are far better novels.
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