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'And "proliferation" became the word of the day...'

Very different from the film. This is not such a bad thing; I am finding the oeuvre of Roger Moore rather slow going. (No quibbles about his performance, but the actual films are terrible.) There is a villain called Hugo Drax, and that is about the only similarity.

Ian Fleming's tedious style aside (a series of info-dumps linked by occasional bursts of action), book!Bond is much less slappable than film!Bond.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/11193534

According to my father in law, this is the one that's never taken off, that's never been filmed, etc, etc, etc. I had got to about page seventy-five by the time he told me this, and I must say I can rather see why. It was something of an uphill struggle. However, I persevered to the end, and found that it continued to be turgid, far-fetched, and not really gripping enough to compensate for the general unlikeability of the characters. All of the characters.

A pity, because on the whole I enjoy Alistair MacLean, but not this one.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7613098