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Every time I read one of these I’m amazed by how different, but also how great the literary version of Bond is. If you were hoping for a novelization of the film, those hopes will be dashed by the opening chapters in which a brainwashed Bond attempts to kill M! As penance, and a chance at redemption, Bond is sent after “Pistols” Scaramanga. It’s a fine story, told with the usual Fleming flare and attention to detail, and even though they differ drastically from the cinema versions I love so much, I’ve come to enjoy these novels immensely. I can recognize the bones of the films within the novels, and it’s always interesting to see what was kept, and what was discarded. In this case, most of the novel was passed over, so this feels like a newly uncovered mission from Bond’s past.


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The Man With The Golden Gun James Bond Novels Ian Fleming Books Reviews

While Fleming's Bond novels are certainly enduring classics, it's not because of the great writing, because the writing isn't, in fact, great. The Man with the Golden Gun is one of the last Bond novels, and in my opinion, the later novels go markedly downhill. Some of the earlier works, while not literary masterpieces were at least extremely entertaining reads, but by this point in the series I was seriously struggling to stay engaged. If you are going to choose one Bond book to read, The Man with the Golden Gun is not the one I'd suggest.
This is the third installment that started with "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and continued with You Only Live Twice".
. Not quite a trilogy in the modern sense, but am continuing story of what it would take to break Bond, and what it would take to bring him back. It stands alone as a Bond adventure with Cuban sharpshooter. Once you get over Bond's/Fleming's occasional misogyny, it's an exciting adventure in the Bond tradition.
At the start of the year I made it an intention of mine to read the entire James Bond series, which I have been doing in hardcover, paperback, and e-book. While I have jumped back and forth with the John Gardner and Raymond Benson cycles, I have clearly kept with the original Ian Fleming books in chronological order, to see the evolution of 007 as Mr. Fleming intended.

With that, I have reached the end of his final full-length book, The Man with the Golden Gun, and I have to admit that it is the first book to which I am disappointed. It is not up to the quality of the previous books. And the reasons are many. First, the book starts off with promise of Bond's return to action after disappearing off the radar for nearly a year after the end of You Only Live Twice, finding him acting suspiciously in the possible employ of the KGB. But that soon fizzles out without further information. Fleming had left out a lot of back story that remains unwritten.

Then, it abruptly jumps to Bond returning to Jamaica to infiltrate and stop the plot of Scaramanga, the self-titled man with the golden gun, who comes off as a ruthless drug dealer intending to transport marijuana to the United States. He is far less flamboyant and charismatic than the version of the character I remember seeing in the film of the same name. Let's face it, Christopher Lee made a more memorable impression.

Finally, the plot and action seem more in tune with License to Kill or any standard episode of Miami Vice than an Ian Fleming book. To me it's not as convincing. While there are sparks of the Fleming magic, it doesn't always work.

Sadly, there is a preoccupation with death in this novel, as with his two previous books. The tragic death of Bond's wife Tracy at the end of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, followed by Blofeld' s death in You Only Live Twice, not to mention Bond's obituary, and the constant stream of Death references here, suggest that Fleming somehow knew that his own death was imminent, which seems to lend supposition to the rushed quality of the book, that it was important to get one final full-length completed before he died. Had he lived longer, he would have very likely fleshed out the book again.

Still, with all its flaws, The Man with the Golden Gun is a fairly good addition to the James Bond series, just not up to the quality of the previous books.
We all knew it was to be the last " real" James Bond novel as it was published the year after Ian Fleming's death. After rereading the entire series again with the release of the kindle edition I was reminded why these were such good books, James Bond was very real, very human, very fallible and very immortal. This was about the same time that we were waiting for Thunderball and at that time I knew that rhe movies still had quite a ways to go in order to film all 14 books. Who would have predicted that the films are just as strong as they were 50 years ago. James Bond is a cultural ICON, not many of these have been created throughout history but 007 is one of them, I hope the suceeding generations will take the time to read the books that helped create this ICON and not just watch the films. And hopefully read them in the order that they were written because it not only documents the genesis of 007, but also documents a very crucial period in history when humankind came very close to an atomic nightmare.
Every time I read one of these I’m amazed by how different, but also how great the literary version of Bond is. If you were hoping for a novelization of the film, those hopes will be dashed by the opening chapters in which a brainwashed Bond attempts to kill M! As penance, and a chance at redemption, Bond is sent after “Pistols” Scaramanga. It’s a fine story, told with the usual Fleming flare and attention to detail, and even though they differ drastically from the cinema versions I love so much, I’ve come to enjoy these novels immensely. I can recognize the bones of the films within the novels, and it’s always interesting to see what was kept, and what was discarded. In this case, most of the novel was passed over, so this feels like a newly uncovered mission from Bond’s past.