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Title: Seafire by John E. Gardner, John Gardner ISBN: 0-425-14775-4 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.29 (14 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Did John Gardner write Bond novels on autopilot?
Comment: I don't get it. For a while, the only books by John Gardner I had ever read were his James Bond novels. I knew he was a spy novelist for years so I finally picked up a different book of his (Confessor) and I loved it. I also realized how DIFFERENTLY he wrote when he wrote non-Bond novels. I don't think he put one half of the effort into some Bond novels that he did into other, non-Bond books. His style and writing is exactly the same in all of the Bond novels with the exception of COLD FALL, which reads like Gardner loosening up and writing more freely (probably since he knew it was his last Bond.) SEAFIRE could have been great, but once again Gardner does a shoddy job of bringing together potentially interesting story elements. The villain is the next Hitler (um, didn't Bond fight the next Hitler in ICEBREAKER?) who has something to do with destroying the Caribbean with an oil spill while inventing a new way to control oil spills (I still don't know what the Fourth Reich and oil spills have to do with each other.) Bond proposes to Flicka von Grusse (and we all KNOW she will die for that.) However, I give Gardner credit for changing the Bond world with his OWN series, and not keeping everything static like all of the movies. He has M on the verge of replacement, Bond being promoted, a new committee watching the other committees. John Gardner wrote some good Bond books (Death is Forever, No Deals, Mr. Bond, Icebreaker) but there are times when he seems to rush them or just not care about Bond or the books themselves. Seafire, quite often, feels like one of those times.
Rating: 1
Summary: GARDNER ISN'T EVEN CLOSE TO IAN FLEMING
Comment: I havent read any of gardner's books. but from what i hear leming rules all bond novels. I say stick with fleming forget gardner. Benson's allright.
Rating: 4
Summary: One of Gardner's weaker novels, but still a good read.
Comment: The story was a little weak because it had Bond fighting a Nazi plot which is something every suspense novelist has their hero do at one time or another. This novel is worth reading however because of Bond's marrige proposal to Fredricka Von Gruse and it's emotional ending. It's a good showing of Bond's human side.
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Title: Never Send Flowers by John E. Gardner, John Garnder ISBN: 0425142507 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Death Is Forever by John E. Gardner ISBN: 0399137165 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Brokenclaw by John E. Gardner ISBN: 0425127214 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $20.75 |
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Title: Win, Lose or Die by John E. Gardner ISBN: 0425122611 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: The Man from Barbarossa by John Gardner ISBN: 042513234X Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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