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Summary: A good read, but just not as good as Fleming's others.
Review: The Man With The Golden Gun contains some great elements of the other Bond books. First, is Bond's return "from the dead" and near assassination of M--a great start. However, the entire story of Scaramanga being just another member of a Mafia-like group isn't as intriguing as Auric Goldfinger. Fleming is the master of building suspense near the climax--and he certainly does that here--especially during the train ride. However, the pace of the entire story isn't very exciting. It is a good follow-up to You Only Live Twice.
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Summary: The book is one of the best Bonds ever.
Review: The Man With The Golden Gun is a big thriller. I wasn't too fond of the movie, but don't miss this Bond book. It is one of the best.
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Summary: An introspective look at Bond, one of Flemings best !
Review: This book gets away from the complex plots and world threatening villains usually associated with many of the other books to concentrate on Bond in the limited surroundings of a half finished hotel in Jamaica with the man he is to assassinate. This book seems to centralise more on James Bond the man and his inner thoughts, the lack of action is easily made up for with the mind games between Bond and Scaramanga leading upto the final gun fight !
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Summary: Exciting,suspenseful,dangerous, a PERFECT book!
Review: This is an incredible novel.Heart pounding from the begging to the suspensful ending.I defenitly reccomend reading this book!
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Summary: Well Gentlemen much better than the pathetic film !
Review: This is much better than the film, which was made after the book Flemming did himself credit before he drew his terminal breath on The Man with the Golden Gun: The scenes are better, the supporting charahters are better and the train scene is just superb. The only thing I will say for the film is that it's Fransisco Scaramanga is played superbly by Christopher Lee where as in the book Scaramanga is a bit of a dud bolt! on the whole a delight!
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Summary: The Golden Book!
Review: This is the first 007 novel that I read, and I believe it is a great book. Bond is fun and a good character, and Scaramanga is fun as well. The swamp scene to me is good and the books does definetly deserve five stars.
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Summary: A Great Bond Novel
Review: This is the first 007 novel that I read, and I believe it is a great book. Bond is fun and a good character, and Scaramanga is fun as well. The swamp scene to me is good and the books does definetly deserve five stars.
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Summary: For Bond completists only
Review: To a certain extent, it feels unfair to criticize The Man With the Golden Gun, the last of Ian Fleming's original James Bond books. It is generally agreed that Fleming, seriously ill while writing this book, died before having a chance to rewrite his initial, sketchy drafts. The book itself was rushed out by Fleming's publishers and therefore, if it often reads like a first draft that's because it is. This is the book that finds James Bond returning to MI6 after being briefly brainwashed by the KGB. Needing to redeem himself in the eyes of M (who, in this book's rushed characterization, is at his most coldly unlikeable), Bond is sent to take out international assassin Paco Scaramanga, whose trademark is that he kills with a golden gun. As said, the entire book reads like a sketch of an idea (a short story really) and Fleming's prose and dialouge are (through not fault of his own) rough and unpolished. However, the book does have a few good points that are all the more remarkable when you consider the duress Fleming was under when he wrote it. Scaramanga is a potentially fascinating character, a wonderfully image of James Bond as if reflected in a funhouse mirror. Indeed, it is hard not to feel that if Fleming had lived to write a second draft, Scaramanga would be remembered as one of his most memorable villians, in league with Dr. No and Goldfinger. As well, there is wonderfully elegiac about the book's final chapter where Bond spends a few pages considering his legacy as a secret agent and his future in espionage. Fleming, surely knowing that this would be his final novel, uses the chapter to sum up all that he had written over the past 15 or so years and it serves as a nice tribute for the fans of the original James Bond, confirming everything that made us a fan in the first place. The Man with The Golden Gun isn't a book that accurately reflects the depth of Fleming's talent or the potential of the literary James Bond but it still has a few shiny moments that shows why Bond has endured.
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Summary: For Bond completists only
Review: To a certain extent, it feels unfair to criticize The Man With the Golden Gun, the last of Ian Fleming's original James Bond books. It is generally agreed that Fleming, seriously ill while writing this book, died before having a chance to rewrite his initial, sketchy drafts. The book itself was rushed out by Fleming's publishers and therefore, if it often reads like a first draft that's because it is. This is the book that finds James Bond returning to MI6 after being briefly brainwashed by the KGB. Needing to redeem himself in the eyes of M (who, in this book's rushed characterization, is at his most coldly unlikeable), Bond is sent to take out international assassin Paco Scaramanga, whose trademark is that he kills with a golden gun. As said, the entire book reads like a sketch of an idea (a short story really) and Fleming's prose and dialouge are (through not fault of his own) rough and unpolished. However, the book does have a few good points that are all the more remarkable when you consider the duress Fleming was under when he wrote it. Scaramanga is a potentially fascinating character, a wonderfully image of James Bond as if reflected in a funhouse mirror. Indeed, it is hard not to feel that if Fleming had lived to write a second draft, Scaramanga would be remembered as one of his most memorable villians, in league with Dr. No and Goldfinger. As well, there is wonderfully elegiac about the book's final chapter where Bond spends a few pages considering his legacy as a secret agent and his future in espionage. Fleming, surely knowing that this would be his final novel, uses the chapter to sum up all that he had written over the past 15 or so years and it serves as a nice tribute for the fans of the original James Bond, confirming everything that made us a fan in the first place. The Man with The Golden Gun isn't a book that accurately reflects the depth of Fleming's talent or the potential of the literary James Bond but it still has a few shiny moments that shows why Bond has endured.
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Summary: The Golden Book!
Review: Very Good Book! Own Now and yo'll be the man with the Golden Book! A lot of action and all! I had a hard time putting it down! Own now!
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