For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8)

Posted on 03 October 2017 by Ian Fleming

Bond watched her as she reached the edge of the tables and came up the aisle It was hopeless She was coming to meet someone her lover She was the sort of woman who always belongs to somebody else What damnable luck Before Bond could pull himself together, the girl had come up to his table and sat down I m sorry I m late We ve got to get moving at once You re wanted at the office She added under her breath Crash dive Sudden emergencies and beautiful girls who aren t quite what they seem and are the stock in trade of James Bond And when 007 is on the case there s only one thing you can be sure of the result will be thrilling And whether he s dealing with the assassination of a Cuban thug in America, the destruction of an international heroin ring, or sudden death in the Seychelles, Bond gets the job done In his own suave and unmistakable style Best Download [ For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8) ] Author [ Ian Fleming ] – kino-fada.fr STORY 1 From a View to a Kill 4 starsMy review is here 2 For Your Eyes Only4 stars The bread stuck in Bond s throat Tension was building up in him In his imagination he could already hear the deep bark of the Savage He could see the black bullet lazily, like a slow flying bee, homing down into the valley towards a square ...Life is a devious businessIan Fleming, Quantum of Solace After having read about 7 of his novels, this was the first set of Fleming short stories I ran into, as I moved up the Bond collection For Your Eyes Only contains the following stories 1 From A View to a Kill2 For Your Eyes Only3 Quantum of Solace4 Risico5 The Hildebrand RarityThe first three titles would probably be familiar to anyone who has watchedthan a couple James Bond films over the last 20 year...Rating 3.25 of fiveWow What a film 1981 was quite a year at the movie house Arthur, Das Boot, Gallipoli, Chariots of Fireand this The movie doesn t follow the book s plot particularly closely, adding stuff from another short story, inventing stuffbut what the hey, why should this one be different It s a standard revenge action espionage flick Nothing in space, some stuff underwater that makes some kinda sense, and the best Bondmobile ever A Citro n 2CV from Wikimedia on a Commons Rating 3.25 of fiveWow What a film 1981 was quite a year at the movie house Arthur, Das Boot, Gallipoli, Chariots of Fireand this The movie doesn t follow the book s plot particularly closely, adding stuff from another short story, inventing stuffbut what the hey, why should this one be different It s a standard revenge action espionage flick Nothing in space, some stuff underwater that makes some kinda sense, and the best Bondmobile ever A Citro n 2CV from Wikimedia on a Commons licenseSo yeah, being a little sarcastic there, but this film brings out the snark in me Simon Templar does his smirkin...Is it possible to write effective short stories about spies When I started reading Ian Fleming s For Your Eyes Only, I thought, Ho, ho I can t see where this ll work In fact, none of the five stories are, strictly speaking, spy stories No SMERSH, no SPECTRE, and only a couple mentions of the big bad Soviets In From a View to a Kill, James Bond patiently finds who murdered a SHAPE courier by becoming one himself and luring the assassin.The title story is a plain and simple revenge murder Is it possible to write effective short stories about spies When I started reading Ian Fleming s For Your Eyes Only, I thought, Ho, ho I can t see where this ll work In fact, none of the five stories are, strictly speaking, spy stories No SMERSH, no SPECTRE, and only a couple mentions of the big bad Soviets In From a View to a Kill, James Bond pat...Having grown up engrossed by the James Bond films with one or two exceptionsyou know which Bonds I mean , I was curious as to how the original novels would rate I have come away from my second Fleming fascinated, if not thoroughly impressed The films accurately capture how scattershot Bond s life is he hops the globe the same way he breathes, seemingly indifferent However, the novel far surpasses any film in that we see Bond s logic and internal monologues, complete with banal asides Having grown up engrossed by the James Bond films with one or two exceptionsyou know which Bonds I mean , I was curious as to how the original no...As with all collections of short stories, the quality varies Not the strongest collection.The stories are good but dated James Bond is a first class agent but a complete arse with a deplorable attitude to women although that is mainly a front as he adores strong women with pluck Outrageous shenanigans in the name of saving the Brits Enjoyable but ludicrousIt was bound to happen eventually during this Bond a thon movie book project of mine It was bound to happen that eventually there would be a collection of stories that included titles of movies my brother and I haven t re watched yet As I held this in my hand, flipping through it, I panicked How do I do this I wondered Do I read just For Your Eyes Only since that s the movie we most recently watched And then check the book out again for, say, A View to a Kill And then again for Quantum o It was bound to happen eventually during this Bond a thon movie book project of mine It was bound to happen that eventually there would be a collection of stories that included titles of movies my brother and I haven t re watched yet As I held this in my hand, flipping through it, I panicked How do I do this I wondered Do I read just For Your Eyes Only since that s the movie we most recently watched And then check the book out again for, say, A Vie...Taken in isolation, the tales in this collection would probably look like shaggy dog stories There s some exciting action and amusing observations, but they don t really add up too much However looked at together, they do show some interesting things about Fleming s conception of his lead character For example Quantum of Solace which is certainly the most passive Bond tale I ve come across so far, in that all he does is sit there and listen to a story sees Bond at the end gripped with Taken in isolation, the tale...Where Fleming s novels up to this point in the series deal in memorable characters, exotic locations described in cinematic details, and a protagonist who has an almost super human ability to get himself out of a tight spot, the short stories collected in For Your Eyes Only highlight a number of different qualities in Fleming s writing There is, for my money,tension in the climactic moments of From A View To a Kill and For Your Eyes Only, and even the seemingly unassuming subject matter o Where Fleming s novels up to this point in the series deal in memorable characters, exotic locations described in cinematic details, and a protagonist who has an almost super human ability to get himself out of a tight spot, the short stories collected in For Your Eyes Only highlight a number of different qualities in Fleming s writing There is, for my money,tension in the climactic m...

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03 October 2017

Ian Fleming