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A review by andrew_j_r
For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming
4.0
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 18.12.14
A somewhat unsatisfactory addition to the range of books.
It's essentially a collection of short stories. I quite like the first one "With A View To A Kill" (which does not resemble the movie apart from the fact that there are scenes set in Paris!) and the second, but the middle one is literally on bloke telling Bond about a girl who messed her husband around so much that he divorced her and deliberately stitched her up with some debts. And that little tale was called "Quantum Of Solace!"
None of the stories are that meaty, i definitely prefer the Bond books that tell one longer story.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 27.11.23
This is one of those rare occasions where I wonder what I was thinking when I wrote the previous review! I agree that the longer stories are better, but all of these tales are interesting, indeed the 4th has enough content to easily get fleshed out to a full movie. And I even enjoyed the story I loathed last time, “Quantum Of Solace.”
What was I thinking?
A somewhat unsatisfactory addition to the range of books.
It's essentially a collection of short stories. I quite like the first one "With A View To A Kill" (which does not resemble the movie apart from the fact that there are scenes set in Paris!) and the second, but the middle one is literally on bloke telling Bond about a girl who messed her husband around so much that he divorced her and deliberately stitched her up with some debts. And that little tale was called "Quantum Of Solace!"
None of the stories are that meaty, i definitely prefer the Bond books that tell one longer story.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 27.11.23
This is one of those rare occasions where I wonder what I was thinking when I wrote the previous review! I agree that the longer stories are better, but all of these tales are interesting, indeed the 4th has enough content to easily get fleshed out to a full movie. And I even enjoyed the story I loathed last time, “Quantum Of Solace.”
What was I thinking?