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Summary: Excellent!
Review: One of the best written and exqusitely wrought novels by Fleming. Tense, gripping and surprisingly romantic.
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Summary: Bond at his best
Review: ten times better than the movie, Moonraker got me from the moment i first open it up. High stakes card games, ruthless and sinister villains, politics and twist at the end that makes the ride even better. Dear reader, if you like the spy genre or are a fan of the Bond movies, this is a must read for you.
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Summary: Great card game scene
Review: The first part of the book is fascinatingly similar to Casino Royale. Both books centre around a card game. Unfortunately, the rest of the book is incredibly tedious as there is not enough going on.This is the only Bond novel where the film is an improvement over the book. Still, it does have the master`s touch.
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Summary: OK
Review: The plot is great! Drax is a good villian and the whole Moonraker scheme is brilliant! I think Gala is one of the better Bond girls in the book series but this book is missing action! The beginning of the book when Bond is trying to find out how Drax cheats at cards is Fleming at his best! The middle of the book is good because of Fleming's great writing skills but it lacks action that the other books have. The third part of the book when Bond is trying to stop Drax from launching the Moonraker is great! The book is highly recommended but its not action-packed liek the others.
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Summary: Not bad at all.
Review: This book however still not being able to surpass it's two predesessors, it is still an OK read. The reason why this book does not live up to Casino Royale, and Live and Let Die, is the card scene in the beginning. It is completely, and uterly boring. This goes on for six chapters, then things really start to get going One of the most creative villians, turns out to be... not what I expected. I had an entire other thing that I thought was going on. But, all in all it is far better than the movie, which just shares the title, and the name of the villian. Moonraker, in this book is not even a spacecraft, and Bond never steps foot of off planet Earth, it works far better that way.
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Summary: An Amazing novel to be read by Post-War British
Review: This is about as controversial as James Bond gets. The original Moonraker novel is a deep and meaningfull novel, bringing in a strongly racial background, a story of intrigue in the wake of the second world war. Hugo Drax, a multi-millionaire gentleman, 'the Coloumbite King', is slowly building the formidible Moonraker missle that will bring the world to its knees. England has hailed this escaped soldier a national treasure, a man who will soon be the saviour of Britain.
But there is only one problem.
Hugo Drax cheats at cards.
M., the head of the elite double-o section of the secret service, has watched him cheat at Blades, the exclusive gentlemans club to which they are both members, many time, and has mentioned it to Basildon, the owner of Blades many a time. With nothing else to do on his own to help a national hero avoid much embarassment, he enlists the help of James Bond, agent double-o-seven, whom he has worked with twice before.
In the comfort of Blades, Bond doctors his cards before M, himself, Drax and drax's friend Meyer, begin their game of bridge. After Bond wins 15,000 pounds of Drax's money, he storms out, furiously muttering, 'Spend it quickly'.
Bond walks into the secret service building in Regents Park to find two of Drax's men, a scientist on the Moonraker, and a Policeman sent to the launchsite by Scotland Yard, have been killed in a murder-suicide, whereby the scientists last words before he lodged the gun in his throat were 'Heil Hitler'. Bond travels to the Moonraker Launch-site beside the cliffs of Dover, and finds Drax, Gala Brand, a stiff policewoman, and Krebs, Drax's suspect 'aide-de-campe'.
But something is wrong in Dover.
The test of the Moonraker missle is in three days, and Bond must find out what it is before the main population of Britain is obliterated. And he must watch out for Drax, a man who will stop at nothing to fulfill his hate-filled fantasies of mass-murder and bloodshed.
An intriguing novel that will have your pulse up twenty, Moonraker is a tale you must read up to the last page:
for healths sake
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Summary: One of Fleming's Best
Review: This is easily one of the best Bond books I've ever read. This is MUCH better than the movie. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in the world of Bond!
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Summary: Moonraker
Review: This is not the best written or the most exciting Bond story, but it is probably my favourite, if only because it has everything the films haven't. It is subtle, intimate and almost naive, and Fleming's desciptions of the English countryside and coast are exquisite.
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Summary: Great book
Review: This is the first Ian Flemming book that I have read. I enjoyed reading it and plan to read some more of his books.
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Summary: Kinder, Gentler Bond; Bigger, Badder Drax
Review: This is the third review I have done for a 007 novel and as always I will tell the reader that the book is nothing like the film. Forget the pseudo-science fiction of the movies (done to capitalize on the Star Wars craze) this book is a completely different animal.
Plot aside (Moonraker is a super ICBM capable of destroying London; not a space station) the biggest differences are in Bond and mastermind-of-the-hour Hugo Drax. Bond is, again, Fleming's human being as opposed to Hollywood's super-agent (He actually gets TURNED DOWN by his leading lady and you get the feeling he's ACTUALLY A LITTLE HURT). Drax is much more intense in this book, coming off as what today we would call the typical megalomaniacal(...)mastermind (but since Fleming was instrumental in defining such a character, this must be accepted as part of his vision for the 007 mythos).
Lastly, sorry Jaws fans: he's not in here -- but check out the Peter Lorre-like Krebs. He's a good villain too.
All in all, Moonraker was my favorite of the 007 novels thus far. And though the car chase was a more intense clone of the one in "Casino Royale" it did nothing to detract from the enjoyment of this book.
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