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Summary: Living to Die Another Day!!!
Review: Raymond Benson returns with quite possibly some of his best writing ever! After the okay-good The Man With The Red Tattoo, he returns to write Die Another Day in a superb style of description, action and nonstop 007 adventure! Rumors are flying that he may be giving up his role as the 007 author, if it is true he leaves with a bang.Die Another day begins with Bond in Korea to disrupt the evil Colonel Moon and his henchman Zao. They are purchasing diamonds and have a great deal of deadly machinery in his demilitarized zone. Bond infiltrates the zone to result in a explosion of diamond shrapnel scarring Zao's face and a deadly chase with Colonel Moon of hovercrafts over a minefield. Bond is captured by General Moon, (the colonel's father and is held responsible for his death. A year passes by with Bond in a tortured state being traded for freedom with Zao. M meets Bond and tells him of her dissapointment in him. Bond then searches for Zao down in Cuba and meets NSA agent Jinx. Bond discovers that Zao has been under gene therapy to alter his face in a clinic on a nearby island. Bond traces the island to a one Gustav Graves, an eccentric millionaire that owns diamonds and has a local ice palace in Iceland. Bond challenges Graves to fencing in the Blades Club, where Bond wins and meets the ultra-cool icy princess Miranda Frost, Graves personal assistant. Bond is equipped by Q and sent out to Iceland by M. While in Iceland Bond meets up with Jinx and discovers the Gustav Graves has created the ultrapowerful satellite Icarus, which canharness the Sun's power. He later confronts Graves where he makes a startling discovery that Miranda Frost(while earlier claiming to be a British agent) is now against Bond. A magnificent chase enthralls with Zao, Graves and Frost running Bond down. Jinx and Bond discover that Colonel Moon is in fact Gustav Graves the same person. Jinx and Bond find out that Graves is going to destroy his demilitarized zone with the Icarus in order for the takeover of all nearby countries to make Korea an unstoppable power. Bond kills Zao in the ice palace and rescues the stranded Jinx, where they aboard Graves plane to stop the crazy Korean. Jinx and Miranda Frost break out into a exciting thrilling fencing fight with Frost succumbing to the sword of Jinx. Bond and Graves battle on the now crashing plane, where Graves is killed by being pulled into the planes wing. Bond and Jinx escape via helicoptor aboard the plane. Meanwhile we are allowed to see thanks to the 3-D machine the ultimate fantasy of Moneypenny to love James Bond. Bond and Jinx safely land in a temple where the story ends.
Raymond Benson has truly written a masterpiece here. All bond fans will love the exciting tale of James Bond 007!
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Summary: Not All that Original but Not Bad
Review: The basic premise of the book was already written by Ian Fleming. Benson does a good job but I could not help think he owed much of this to Fleming. It is a good effort and a good read just the same.
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Summary: A TON BETTER THAN THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This book is very good!!! It has a lot of action and a lot of suspense. I read the book before i bought the movie and I was expecting the movie to be great because the book was soo good. But after I saw the movie I didn't like it, it was very boring. Unlike the movie the book was great all the way through!! So then I liked the book even better. It is worth buying for sure!! So if you liked the movie I am sure you will love the book, and if you didn't like the movie you will still probally like the book!! So this book is a must buy for all James Bond fans!!!!!
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Summary: A Return to the Best
Review: This is easily going to be the best Brosnan film in the series. It returns to the more fantastic Bond movies, such as You Only Live Twice and The Spy Who Loved Me, that we Bond fans miss sooo much. The last few have been far too serious, but this definitely adds that element of fun, a hint of sci-fi, and absolutely fantastic action scenes, characters, and the best villain's lair since the volcano-base. Still, the book misses out on some detail, but it should play out great on screen.
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Summary: Good Read, But A Bit Too Predictable
Review: This novel, by Raymond Benson, is based upon the movie screenplay of the latest Bond movie by the same title, and by the way, I loved the movie. But in my view both the book and the movie had one bothersome flaw, and that is, they are too predictable. I don't blame Benson here with this novel, he was just following the screenplay and I consider Benson a highly capable novelist as he has written several excellent stand alone Bond novels in the past. Perhaps a 'dark' Bond novel or movie could be done, with BOTH of the Bond ladies turning out to be villains, or even Bond himself taking a turn to the 'wild side' and maybe not coming to a conclusion until the next movie, similar to the Star Trek movies in which Spock 'died' in one movie and came back in the next. The ideas are almost endless here, only imagination needed. But this novel is well worth reading regardless, being full of action in a well conceived plot, an easy, fun read.
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Summary: This is Moonraker, not original stuff.
Review: Yes, I know they already made a film of "Moonraker" which had basically nothing to do with the book, so they're free to use plot elements. But it's almost shameless to use this many plot elements. A space weapon (only it's called "Icarus" instead of "Moonraker"), a "zero-to-hero" public persona for the villain (as well as his being honored by the Queen and not at all what he seems), the villain's blonde secretary who's a double (British S.S. and his secretary), a showdown at a club...I could go on and on. Why waste $$$ on this novelization when you could pick up Ian Fleming's original "Moonraker" at a library or used book store? It's much better, plus you get to see a "Bond Girl" who thinks he's stupid (at least at first, but then SHE dumps HIM). How rare is that!?
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