![]() And the rest of it, I don't know, it's captivating despite it's feeling a bit different. The opening passages represent one of my favorite bits of Fleming extant. But at the same time, there's a good amount of that old Fleming magic in there. In any event, it is a story that feels markedly different than the previous Fleming novels. novel thread), I am quite happy to see that my enjoyment certainly arose out of the "new Bond" and sexual/political undertones. Now that I've just re-read Jim's excellent articles (see links thereto in the TMWTGG: movie v. ![]() There's something about it I must like, despite my having had the usual feelings that it is unpolished, incomplete, underwritten, shallow, small-time, etc. I have also read it each time that I have gone through the full circuit of novels (CR to OP).Īnd what's interesting to me is that I find it imminently readable. ![]() One time, I was home sick for days at my mother-in-law's house and it was the only suitable thing I could find to read.Īnother time, I picked it up because I wanted to re-read a few bits of that killer opening stanza, and I ended up reading it all the way through. Mostly, this has been an accident of circumstance. I have read TMWTGG more times than any other Fleming story. To give it four seems unfair to some of the four star novels, but then again. ![]() After much reflection I gave it three stars, but I would really put it at 3 and 1/2. ![]()
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