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Title: Moonraker by Ian Fleming ISBN: 0-14-200206-2 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (40 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Bond enters the atomic era
Comment: Fleming's third Bond novel is quite a good one. The pace is slower than the previous one, "Live and Let Die", but anyway faster than "Casino Royale" (and, like the latter, includes one excellent card-game scenario). It's amazing how the author takes us from 007 at his most domestic to the (then) most sci-fi adventure. The villain, Drax, may look as someone took from a nightmare but Fleming describes him in such detail -dialogue, appearence, mood, idiosincracies and the story of his life- that the character becomes completely "real" (even upsetting the reader as much as he upsets Bond in the book). Drax's speech (heard on the radio by 007) when Moonraker is about to get fired is simply the best monologue Fleming ever conceived or wrote. Superb, funny yet amazingly dangerous! And Gala Brand, the heroine, just not falls into Bond's arms like so many, leaving the secret agent reflecting alone about their different lives and showing us his vulnerability instead of the wrongly-assumed 007's eternal success with women. It's a pity the film version spoiled this title (actually, the title is the only resemblance to the novel), taking Bond to three countries and outer space while this excellent down-to-earth adventure story goes no farther than London and Dover. The rocket ready to blow Buckingham Palace is a more atractive and original idea by far. Bond save the Queen, indeed!
Rating: 4
Summary: The Roger Moore film does this Novel No Justice
Comment: This novel is my first real Ian Fleming novel. It has an elaborate plot invloving a scheme to seek vengence for the defeat of Germany in WWII. Sir Hugo Drax is a British nobleman with a mysterious past and fortune. He offers the British a nuclear super-rocket: the Moonraker. Suddenly, an MI-5 agent is murdere by a German scientist in a murder/suicide. After Bond stops Drax in a card game at M's private club, M recommends Bond as MI-5's replacement. His trainig is for overseas operations, but he reports to Drax's compound. The leading lady is Gala Brand, from the Ministry of Supply, who Bond never seduces(surprise!). Bond and Gala uncover a plot to destroy London. Unlike the movie, Bond never leaves England. The one star is deducted since the card game is too long. Overall, a fantastic book.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best of the First Three Bond Novels.
Comment: I am reading (in some cases rereading) the Ian Fleming Bond books in chronological order. Moonraker is the third in the series. As opposed to the first two, this book delves into the life of the government secret agent. His everyday duties at work, and some of the personalities of those with whom he works. There is an emphasis on his chief "M" including M's real name (to my knowledge never spoken in the movies).
The point of the story builds slowly, but once exposed the mystery moves with the familiarity of a Bond novel. Again, the writer examines the human side of his character that is not seen in many other adventure novels. This story also differs from the others by having a stronger female character who uses her wits and determination (and not relying on her looks) to save Bond's life. Again, Fleming gives a diabolic antagonist, however, this one is particularly disgusting in his personal qualities. What is very believable, though, is how those who meet this character, including Bond, allow their objectivity to be lost due to social and economic status.
The book includes some of the more clever prose by Fleming thus far in the series such as, "Bond could hear a quick, deadly ticking, the hasty tripping of tiny metal feet somewhere in the body of the Moonraker. It filled the great steel chamber like the beating heart in Poe's story..."
Missing is the exotic setting common for a Bond story. Finally, for those who see the Bond character as the ultimate male chauvinist, the ending will come as a surprise.
Also recommended in this series are, Casino Royale, and Live and Let Die.
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Title: Casino Royale: A James Bond Novel by Ian Fleming ISBN: 014200202X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Doctor No by Ian Fleming ISBN: 0142002038 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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