Five Stars!!!

[Shaun]

The second best of the Ian Fleming series I've read so far (behind From Russia with Love), Ian Fleming got down to business on this one, this is a classic for the bookshelves.

[Mark]

Why 5 stars?

Fleming based a lot of this book writing a tv-format with two others. And when that did not work out he made a book of their efforts.
Hence the 2nd movie based upon Thunderball "Never say never again"

[Shaun]

Mark wrote: "Why 5 stars?

Fleming based a lot of this book writing a tv-format with two others. And when that did not work out he made a book of his efforts.
Hence the 2nd movie based upon Thunderball "Never s..."

Why five stars? - I based it off the fact that I am huge Bond fan, and a huge fan of Ian Fleming novels with Thunderball I felt he got back on track with a great storyline, plot, concept, characters description and theur involvement in the story no matter the reason why he wrote the book I thought it was great the way it was written, I hadn't felt that way since From Russia with love.

[Mark]

In that case how will you mark OHMSS & YOLT which are the middle and finishing part of the SPECTRE trilogy.

[Shaun]

Well I just started reading OHMSS (and I think the beginning starts off really good) I have yet to get to YOLT (I'm reading all the books in chronological order. but I just completed Carte Blanche by Mr. Deaver and I bought Colonel Sun a well (curious to know what you think of those two?).

[Mark]

I am a great fan of OHMSS & YOLT they are showing the growth of James Bond as a character.
Colonel Sun I have not read in a long time but they are closer to the world of Fleming than any other writer that is non-Fleming.
Carte Blanche is somewhat disappointing, that while I rate Deaver very high his books are a blind buy. He did not only reinterpret 007 to modern times but it somehow seems to be another person than the Fleming creation. He is more the EON creation.

[Shaun]

Okay so this is where I am having a problem with the James Bond author comparisons (and really because I love Ian Fleming's Bond, but I did think it was necessary that modernizing Bond as well and open him up to a new generation), (but first let me say so far OHMSS is a great book the plot, the concept is pretty awesome). I thought Carte Blanche was a good book although it did seem sort fake to me at first when he was mentioning today's products such as Iphone's and Stolichnaya :-, but then again Bond in Colonel Sun & Carte Blanche Bond was a bit more intense and smarter as well (Daniel Craig comes to mind) and that's how I think he should be, with Ian he seems to make silly mistakes alot and get too distracted by women too often.