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Work InformationMoonraker by Ian Fleming (1955)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Cold War spy thriller in which 007 faces off with Richard Branson er, Elon Musk, no… Hugo Drax! A rocket ship with a weapons payload is scheduled to launch from the cliffs of Dover even as Bond races against the countdown to thwart a German-Soviet plan of attack. Bill Nighy sounds a bit older than I like but I also might be projecting because we know what he looks like. Nonetheless, his interpretive skills of the text are very good. ( ) It isn't that I feel these books need trigger-warnings, but Fleming was a man of his age, which is to say there is a certain amount of racism, sexism, and weird conflation of personal beauty and virtue, here. Further there are colonialist politics built-in with un-examined assumptions and language that skews toward a sham-Darwinist view of Anglo-superiority. But. If you aren't put off completely by that, and ignore the ridiculous Roger Moore movie with which this literally shares only the name of a villain[1], this is quite good. The prose is pristine in its clarity and the descriptions are quite evocative. The characters are well-realized, and the plot rips along like the better Doyle Sherlock stories. It is known, amongst fans of these sorts of things, that novel-Bond is not particularly similar to his movie-counterpart. But Bond here is even more of a romantic than in the other books, falling in love with an engaged woman and then backing out gracefully when he learns of her fiancé. It's all very sweet in a portrait-of-a-self-destructive-alcoholic sort of way. ________________________ [1] Has a family ever done an author so wrong as the Brocollis did to Ian Fleming when they produced those Roger Moore films? I had never previously read this because I thought it had some stupid space-thing going on. Instead, Moonraker is the name of an ICBM that is integral to the plot. no reviews | add a review
Is contained inIan Fleming's James Bond: Dr. No / Moonraker / Thunderball / From Russia with Love / On Her Majesty's Secret Service / Goldfinger by Ian Fleming Casino Royale / Live and Let Die / Moonraker / Diamonds Are Forever / From Russia with Love / Dr. No / Goldfinger / For Your Eyes Only / Thunderball / The Spy Who Loved Me / On Her Majesty's Secret Service / You Only Live Twice / The Man with the Golden Gun / Octopussy and The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming Has the adaptationNotable Lists
The Moonraker project has a millionaire backer, the war hero Sir Hugo Drax--a man who, it seems, cheats at cards. With a ballistic rocket at stake, Sir Hugo's exposure could threaten Britain's latest defense system, so James Bond is asked to investigate. Moving from London's most exclusive gambling club to a missile silo on the Channel coast, 007 and his Special Branch assistant, Gala Brand, discover there's more to Drax than meets the eye. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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