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    <body><![CDATA[A few years ago I read about half of the original Ian Fleming 007 series and generally found them quite enjoyable and different than I had expected based on the film franchise. Don't get me wrong, they're not great literature, but they are ripping yarns that reflect their era and are much darker tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78440677">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A pretty good romp in the Bond tradition. Faulks said following Fleming's lead he churned out 2000 words a day for 6 weeks, but abstained from the cocktails that fueled the original works. A pity, as Devil May Care could have benefited from a little less restraint. Good summer fun though.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the first new adult James Bond novel in a few years. I've been a Bond fan for a long time and have read all the novels by other authors.<br/>I didn't have the problems some critics seemed to have with this one.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=1069">STOP SMILING review</a> of <em>Devil May Care</em>:<br/><br/>In the build-up to publication, I confess I had begun to find the moniker “Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming” really quite annoying. It just seemed a pointless non-pretence, a double-the-publicity gimmick. But I have had to eat my ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42263129">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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