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Bond, a shattered man after the death of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, has gone to pieces as an agent, endangering himself and his fellow operatives. M, unwilling to accept the loss of one of his best men, sends 007 to Japan for one last, near-impossible mission. But Japan proves to be Bond's downfall, leading him to a mysterious residence known as the 'Castle of Death' where he encounters an old enemy revitalized. All the omens suggest that this is the end for the British agent, and for once, even Bond himself seems unable to disagree ...
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Perhaps my favourite Bond,
By Mr. N. Dougan "Nick Dougan, Business Coach" (Kent, UK) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: You Only Live Twice (Paperback)
This is the second of Ian Fleming's novels that I have re-read before reading "Devil May Care", the latest Bond Novel, by Sebastian Faulks under licence from the Fleming Estate.
It is, I think, my favourite Bond. Bond goes to Japan on a mission to help restore his self confidence after the death of his bride at the end of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and a couple of bungled missions thereafter. He has been stripped of his "double - 0" number but allocated a "diplomatic" one - 7777 - instead. He comes up first against Tiger Tanaka, head of the Japanese secret service and then, in an attempt to prove to Tiger that the British are a race still to be respected, against a mysterious botanist who turns out to be none other than his old enemy, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The scenario - a garden designed to entice hundreds of suicidal Japanese to their deaths - is perhaps the most fantastical of all Flemings' plots. Tiger provides Fleming with a mouthpiece to express his angst about contemporary British society and its place in the world: "Bondo-san, I will now be blunt with you...it is a sad fact that I, and many of us in positions of authority in Japan, have formed an unsatisfactory opinion about the British people since the war. You have not only lost a great Empire, you have seemed almost anxious to throw it away with both hands...when you apparently sought to arrest this slide into impotence at Suez, you succeeded only in stage-managing one of the most pitiful bungles in history. (Tiger's English is impeccable - he went to Oxford, and spied against Britain, before the war!) Further, your governments have shown themselves successively incapable of ruling and have handed over effective control of the country to the trade unions, who appear to be dedicated to the principle of doing less and less work for more money. This feather-bedding, this shirking of an honest day's work, is sapping at ever-increasing speed the moral fibre of the British, a quality the world once so much admired. In its place we now see a vacuous, aimless horde of seekers-after-pleasure-gambling at the pools and bingo, whining at the weather and the declining fortunes of the country, and wallowing nostalgically in gossip about the doings of the Royal Family and your so-called aristocracy in the pages of the most debased newspapers in the world." What would Tiger Tanaka and Fleming think of Britain today, I wonder? Given that Fleming was something of a hedonist himself, one might consider him ill-qualified to make such a judgement in any case. One wonders, moreover, with the best will in the world, the extent to which the Japanese ever admired the British. Bond roars with laughter at Tiger's analysis - but then goes on to risk life and limb to prove him wrong and so to win vital cooperation over intelligence in the Far East. In so doing he meets the lovely pearl-diver Kissy Suzuki, loses his memory as the result of injuries on his mission but is nursed back to health and subsequently presented with a "pillow book" by her - to which he memorably replies "Kissy, take off your clothes and lie down there. We'll start at page one." - but earns a premature obituary. This is Bond at his best - valiantly struggling to maintain Britain's status in a changing world, having quite a lot of fun along the way, but knowing, in his heart of hearts, that he needed something more.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best in the series,
By awj (Zürich, CH) - See all my reviews
This review is from: You Only Live Twice (Paperback)
This is where Fleming really got flowing with his character, and for many who come to the books from the films, this will perhaps be the most recognisable Bond.
The baddie is imaginitive, far-fetched and sadistic, the setting is far-flung and exotic, but perhaps the most aspect to this book is the experience that Bond himself goes through, a character development that sadly not one of the films has ever put on screen without adding saccharin. This book makes reading all of the series worthwhile.
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Garden of Death,
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This review is from: You Only Live Twice (Paperback)
The penultimate book in the original Ian Fleming James Bond series, You Only Live Twice is a real cracker, featuring Bond's arch-nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld in a somewhat surreal tale whereby the godfather of all fictional terrorists creates a `garden of death' on a remote island off Japan, subsequently luring suicidal Japanese and providing them with the opportunity to end their own lives - in various grotesque ways. Agent 007 has a personal score to settle with the man who murdered his wife, and he teams up with the Secret Service's Head of Station J, Tiger Tanaka, in order to hunt his enemy down and destroy him once and for all.
Forget the overblown if rather fun 1968 Roald Dahl penned screenplay; this novel has the careful attention to detail and the fast-paced action that has become the hallmark of the series of novels. This, plus one of the most intriguingly unresolved climaxes to a James Bond story, makes You Only Live Twice a must-read for fans of action adventure stories as well as a great slice of late-Twentieth Century fiction.
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