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Find Your Fate #12
James Bond in Strike It Deadly
James Bond matches wits with megalomaniac industrialist Max Zorin, who seeks to control the world's microchip production by destroying California's Silicon Valley, in a multiple plot adventure
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117 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 12, 1985
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August 17, 2022
This was so much fun. There were some deliciously silly puns and some outstanding endings you could get from this book. As a lover of Choose Your Own Adventure Books, I absolutely loved it.
June 29, 2018
Hee hee hee how frigging fun is this? A Find Your Fate (read: Choose Your Own Adventure) rendering of the Bond Film "A View to a Kill" (cue the theme song! Duran Duran for days!)
I managed to pick my way through the main storyline, but I went through a few more times to see how creatively I might fail, as I remembered these types of books often have a smarmy snark to their "The End" pages, and I was not disappointed at all!:
"Three feet...two...one...CRUNCH!
Your suit needed pressing - but not with you in it. Sorry, Mr. Bond, you never did find out about Zorin's plan to flood the Silicon Valley. You'd better hope that the next time you open this book, you won't come to an ending that's so flat!"
Good good stuff.
I freely admit that all my readings were done sotto voce, and my attempt at Christopher Walken's Zorin amused me at least as much as the actual story did. (And my Bond was Connery. Of course it was.)
I often wonder if anyone else was convinced that the writers of these books actually inserted multiple slices of storyline that you could never reach, no matter which branch of the adventure you chose? I swear they did. I would!
I managed to pick my way through the main storyline, but I went through a few more times to see how creatively I might fail, as I remembered these types of books often have a smarmy snark to their "The End" pages, and I was not disappointed at all!:
"Three feet...two...one...CRUNCH!
Your suit needed pressing - but not with you in it. Sorry, Mr. Bond, you never did find out about Zorin's plan to flood the Silicon Valley. You'd better hope that the next time you open this book, you won't come to an ending that's so flat!"
Good good stuff.
I freely admit that all my readings were done sotto voce, and my attempt at Christopher Walken's Zorin amused me at least as much as the actual story did. (And my Bond was Connery. Of course it was.)
I often wonder if anyone else was convinced that the writers of these books actually inserted multiple slices of storyline that you could never reach, no matter which branch of the adventure you chose? I swear they did. I would!
September 23, 2020
Found this book amongst my husband's childhood belongings. I was between books so I decided to read it. It's one of those find your fate books popular in the 70s and 80s for young readers. For fun I tried to see how many different paths I'd take before "dying". I got up to 7 and then got tired of reading it.
September 19, 2016
While at a local library book sale today, I came across a James Bond book I had never heard of!
Apparently back in 1985, when Roger Moore's last 007 outing A View To A Kill came out, a series of Find Your Fate books were released. Like the Chose Your Own Adventures books, you're out into 007's shoes and have to successfully complete his mission (based loosely on the film) or potentially die trying.
As a Bond fan, it was a fun way to spend about an hour. There's moments from the film present here though there's a lot of condensing and quite a few wrong turns you can make if you're not careful. Definitely worth the twenty-five cents I paid for it though I wouldn't pay a small fortune for it.
Apparently back in 1985, when Roger Moore's last 007 outing A View To A Kill came out, a series of Find Your Fate books were released. Like the Chose Your Own Adventures books, you're out into 007's shoes and have to successfully complete his mission (based loosely on the film) or potentially die trying.
As a Bond fan, it was a fun way to spend about an hour. There's moments from the film present here though there's a lot of condensing and quite a few wrong turns you can make if you're not careful. Definitely worth the twenty-five cents I paid for it though I wouldn't pay a small fortune for it.
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