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Of the Moonraker two men have been killed at Drax s plant on the cliffs of Dover and Deal An RAF security officer in charge of protecting the perimeter was shot by one of Drax s men a German worker who was apparently jealous of the officer s relationship with Gala Brand Drax s secretary who nknown to the industrialist is an agent of the Special Branch Not wanting the launch delayed the Cabinet has opted to replace the murdered security officer Bond reports to Drax Metals and is impressed by the multimillionaire Drax s dogsbody Willy Krebs comes across as a sneak while Gala Brand refuses to partake in Bond s repartee 007 Broken Wings (Hidden Wings, uses his predecessor s files to discover that the man observed an object in the sea and was likely killed for it Bond and Gala Brand are nearly buried during a walk on the beach when the cliffs above them are blownp Brand discovers that Drax plans to strike London with the Moonraker Her boss abducts her and reveals he is a German seeking revenge for his homeland Bond gives chase in his Bentley but is captured Taken to the plant with Gala Bond receives a lecture by Drax but is no longer impressed Yes said Bond He looked levelly at the great red face across the desk It s a remarkable case history Galloping paranoia Delusions of jealousy and persecution Megalomaniac hatred and desire for revenge Curiously enough he went on conversationally it may have something to do with your teeth Diastema they call it Comes from sucking your thumb when you re a child Yes I expect that s what the psychologists will say when they get you into the lunatic asylum Ogre s teeth Being bullied at school and so on Extraordinary the effect it has on a child Then Nazism helped to fan the flames and then came the crack on your The Dark Villages of Childhood ugly head The crack you engineered yourself I expect that settled it From then on you were really mad Same sort of thing for people who think they re God Extraordinary what tenacity they have Absolute fanatics You re almost a genius Lombroso would have been delighted with you As it is you re just a mad dog that ll have to be shot Or else you ll commit suicide Paranoiacs generally do Too bad Sad businessNearly all the wonderful things about Moonraker occur in the first half of the book I found the details about James Bond s office space to be cheeky and fun I can t remember seeing the 007 of film really doing anything but gambling smoking being briefed on his mission seducing women and then blowing shitp Does this man have an office A secretary Miss Moneypenny is M s secretary What are his work hours What s his take home pay Does he take the tube to work or carpool This material grounds the novel as it segues into an Esuire article on how to spot a card cheat or how to drink vodka add pepper It s a trick the Russians taught me that time you attached me to the Embassy in Moscow apologized Bond There s often ite a lot of fusel oil on the surface of this stuff at least there sed to be when it was badly distilled Poisonous In Russia where you get a lot of bath tub liuor it s an nderstood thing to sprinkle a little pepper in your glass It takes the fusel oil to the bottom I got to like the taste and now it s a habit But I shouldn t have insulted the club Wolfschmidt he added with a grinM grunted As long as you don t put pepper in Basildon s favorite champagne he said drilyThe buildup to Bond and Drax s bridge duel is sophisticated exciting and fun but climaxes everything that follows it The goings on of an arms factory aren t anywhere near as compelling as the action at Blades While Gala Brand doesn t do the business with Bond Ian Fleming being less chaste than Walt Disney but ite austere she doesn t do much but earn 007 sprofessional respect Fleming s comfort zone is clearly the snapshots of modern male living with a little gambling and some pyrotechnics thrown in I enjoyed the glimpses into 007 s job and the novel s setting precludes the rampant racism of Live and Let Die but neither the villains or Bond s straits are memorable I have to say MOONRAKER didn t have as much action as either of the two previous Bond novels At least at the beginning anyway Sure there was the consummate card game and torture scene but neither hit as hard or as fast as what happened in CASINO ROYALE But this was certainly an entertaining read even though the female characters seemed to wilt at the first sign of trouble or at least gave the distinct impression of the likelihood of such an occurrenceI know it s too much to ask and it s certainly not going to stop me from reading the rest of said novels "But Just Once I "just once I like to see a woman kick some serious butt in this series I d have to say the closest female so far has been Vesper Lynd and even she had her flaws Gala Brand held a certain amount of intrigue and promise but I felt like the afterburner element was missing from her characterBond does show a bit of his human side in this one by not actually getting the girl being just a mere mortal like the rest of Banana Fish, Tome 14 : us which does make his character a bit interesting even if said girl Gala does notice his ample charm And he in turn notices her abundant curves Yes these novels might be called fluff but like Bond these novels hold a sophisticated air and charm that isn t easilyantifiable and that s what makes them so gosh darn entertainingCross posted at Robert s Reads Why do all the men wear moustaches asked Bond ignoring Drax s Cirsova (Issue uestion Again he had the impression that hisestion had nettled the other manDrax gave one of his short barking laughs My idea he said They re difficult to recognize in those white overalls and with their heads shaved So I told them to all grow moustaches The thing s become Nuestra propuesta inconclusa. Ecuador-Perú uite a fetish Like in the RAF during the war See anything wrong with itOf course not said Bond Rather startling at first I would have thought that large numbers on their suits with a different colour for each shift would have been effectiveWell said Drax turning away towards the door as if to end the conversation I decided on moustachesMoonraker the third Bond novel was an odd readThe book has scenes that are very similar to Casino Royale ie Bond being pitched against a villain who cheats at cards Yet Bond seems to be a rather different character in Moonraker He s not the condescending rake of the first two books but comes across asite the normal human being in this one he has to do chores and paperwork and like many of s Bond doesn t like MondaysOf course as in the previous books part of the plot also has Bond in pursuit of the girl in this case a smart confident agent by the name of Gala Brand who is one of my favourite female characters so far not hard if we consider how little character Fleming has given to the ones in the first two booksWhat is strange as well is that while Fleming spent time fleshing out Bond and Gala in this one he spent much less time on the villain of the *piece Sir Hugo Drax who by the way looks nothing like his *Sir Hugo Drax who by the way looks nothing like his counterpart Drax gave the impression of being a little larger than life He was physically big about six foot tall Bond guessed and his shoulders were exceptionally broad he had a suare head and the tight reddish hair was parted in the middle On either side of the parting the hair dipped down in a curve towards the temples with the object Bond assumed of hiding as much as possible of the tissue of shining puckered skin that covered most of the right half of his face Other relics of plastic surgery could be detected in the man s right ear which was not a perfect match with its companion on the left and the right eye which had been a surgical failure It was considerably larger than the left eye because of a contraction of the borrowed skin sed to rebuild the pper and lower eyelids and it looked painfully bloodshotDrax is a mere cliche a comic book villainview spoiler a re hash of the stereotypical Nazi surviving WW2 and trying to fight on hide spoiler Rating 4 of fiveYes again I m rating the 1979 movie not the 1954 book Get over itThe pre credits seuence of this film is the absolute all time best thrill ride in the Bondiverse Seeing it again on the teensy netboo. 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So far I ve given the Bond books I ve reviewed 3 stars They walk a sort of thin line They seem to appeal to younger males but have slightly adult content though in todays market they might be thought a bit tamer than they were when published They are enjoyable straight adventure yarns and may deserve a 35 at least one will get a 4 They re good books just not as good as some othersIn this one James saves England s missile program ncovers a spy and oddly doesn t get the a girl the only Bond novel where he doesn t have a romantic fling I believeJust pdated thisI typed there for they resigh A good James Bond novelIan Fleming first published Moonraker in 1955 and it is the third book featuring his master spy 007 Oddly set in England Bond is almost always sent out of country due to jurisdictional procedures this features an erstwhile British rocket project with some loyalty issues Bond takes a lead from M and then in classic Bond fashion gets in to a lot than he bargained forI will need to revisit the 1979 Lewis Gilbert film starring Roger Moore as Bond but I think that elements of the book were sed to create the 1995 Bond film Goldeneye starring Pierce Brosnan Fleming s villain this time around Sir Hugo Drax was very similar to Auric Goldfinger in that both are wildly successful tycoons who have a different measuring stick for winning Fleming sed the proximity to World War II and the ongoing Cold War weapons race to fuel some of the anxiety and paranoia central to the plot The third Bond I am reading and in order So after making ill advised social commentary in his last book Fleming begins to really get into the groove for which we know him best fast action seuences Bond battles against multi millionaire and British national hero Sir Hugo Drax who we discover is actually German but these are the post war years so almost all the villains in all the books that have villains are Germans Fleming taps into our desires for wealth and luxury as we get into a card game at the world s most exclusive card club where he of course bests Drax In this the third book it s everything exclusive fine whiskey martins BentleysAlfa Romeos Mercedes Benz the finest weapons all of it and we want all of this vicariously through Bond And of course fine women here represented by Gala Brand who is beautiful of course but also an accomplished scientist It is almost as if Fleming were responding to early critiues of Bond as harshly misogynist as he has Brand actually narrate a couple sections to articulate her resentment that Drax and the other men don t respect her as a scientist because she is a woman And in the end it is Brand that comes p with the scientific solution that saves the day Oh he s still a womanizer and he gets the girl but she also gets him and while he s no feminist he at least is respectful of her mind So this story with it s focus on a great and truly impressive missile launching is about the sudden race to space in the fifties Russia vs well in this case it is Britain instead of the US but with the turn of the story it is also about fears about Germans turning those technological marvels into atomic bombs 35 rounded For the Love of Texas (The West Texans up because he sticks to what he does best fast action seuences fast car chases big possibly ending life as we know it explosions high stake card games escaping tight places with the girl Fun Now to see the movie again Moonraker gets fiendish with its plot and villains making this the first of the James Bond books to feel like a James Bond moviePure Cold War spy bliss this book taps into our collective fear of mass annihilation after the successfully brutal bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki A war hero has offered his vast fortune ambition and knowledge to create and construct a missile supposedly capable of defending Britain in case of attack A test of the missile is scheduled soon and Bond is put on security detail because something just isn tite right with the whole situation so thinks he and his boss MIam Fleming s own spycraft knowledge from having worked in intelligence during WWII is put to good Pirate Barbarian use in these books For a genre guy he s also a decent writer Doesn t it seem like all public school trained Englishmen know how to string along a decent sentence or two This is the first book in the series where we get a real decent in depth look at M It was a pleasant andnexpected treat to get to know M intimately and see a little bit about what makes him tick The book in general was fun even if the bad guy and his righthand toady were a bit over the topmaybe it was fun because they were soooo dastardly The two thirty eights roared simultaneouslySo begins Moonraker the third novel by Ian Fleming Published in 1955 it continues the exploits of British Secret Service agent James Bond following Casino Royale and Live and Let Die with the long running film series adhering to Fleming s bibliography neither in order or in story content This smooth spare spy thriller bares next door to zero similarity to the film released in 1979 and while I grew restless with the acrobatics of the back half I loved the business in the front half which takes readers through a day at the office with a gaming expert and modern male sophisticate occasionally called on to assassinate enemies of the stateThe novel starts with James Bond having a bad case of the Mondays worked over in the basement firing range by his instructor his sidearm is a Colt Detective Special before going p to his eighth floor office of Secret Service headuarters Radio Tests Ltd to any curious pedestrians in Regent Park Bond also known as Agent 007 might field an assignment two or three times a year that reuire his particular skills but is typically tasked with the chores of a civil servant reviewing dockets and files full of geopolitical or technological data while playing cards or golf with a few close friends on the weekend A red phone on Bond s desk summons him to the ninth floor office of the head of the secret service known as m bond caught Service known as M Bond is guard when his boss refers to him by his given name and asks for his opinion on Sir Hugo Drax a British industrialist who cornered the market on a ore called Columbite which has a very high melting point Drax is nearing completion of a rocket called the Moonraker which will have the range to strike any city in Europe guaranteeing Britain s security A member of the private card club Blades M has come by information that Drax cheats at bridge Seeking to avert a national scandal M reuests Bond join him at the club to investigate There are one or two other small refinements which contribute to the luxury of the place Only brand new currency notes and silver are paid out on the premises and if a member is staying overnight his notes and small change are taken away "by the valet who brings the early morning tea and The Times "the valet who brings the early morning tea and The Times are replaced with new money No newspaper comes to the reading room before it has been ironed Floris provides the soaps and lotions in the lavatories and bedrooms there is a direct wire to Ladbroke s from the porter s lodge the club has the finest tents and boxes at the principal race meetings at Lord s Henley and Wimbledon and members traveling abroad have automatic membership of the leading club in every foreign capitalAt the gaming table Drax is a crass larger than life man with one side of his face shiny from scar tissue left over from the war when he survived a bombing on a rear liaison headuarters by German saboteurs known as The Werewolves that left many Allied soldiers killed or maimed Put off by the man s bluster and sweat Bond ascertains that Drax is sing the reflection of his silver cigarette case to sneak a peek at the cards he deals Partnering with M Bond agrees to the high stakes Drax enjoys ltimately switching a hand dealt by Drax with a stacked one Bond slips out of his pocket gutting the obnoxious multimillionaire for 15000 and M hopes teaching him a lessonNursing a hangover at work the next day Bond barely has time to consider what he ll spend his winnings on when M calls him into his office this time on business Four days before the test launch. ‘For several minutes he stood speechless his eyes dazzled by the terrible beauty of the greatest weapon on earth’He’.
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K screen was just as thrilling a For all of you who read my previous James Bond reviews Casino Royale and Live Let Die this four star review will be giving you ite a shockJames Bond is going about his normal life as a Double 0 Operative And I really mean normal He reads boring reports and goes to the shooting range Then he s called into M s office He and M discuss a man who s a current English celebrity Sir Hugo Drax A very rich man who has invested tons of money into creating a Moonraker a large rocketthing that will be launched into the sky and from there able to defend England from foreign threats A loud redhead with very bad teeth lots of hair on his face and body and a huge scar on half his face from when he was found injured after WWII He was so injured in fact that little is known about him He doesn t even remember anything before the explosion He got out the hospital and went to work making money becoming a millionaire in 5 years Everyone admires him and is grateful for his gift of the Moonraker to England It s going to be tested in a few daysBond knows M isn t one to chew the fat so he s waiting rather impatiently for M to get to the point This is the point Drax cheats at cards M is worried about this for a few reasons Why would such a wealthy man risk everything by cheating at some lowly card games Also if he gets caught cheating at the super exclusive club he belongs to he will disgrace himself and England So M invites Bond to the ritzy club to beat Drax at his own game so to speakBond elegantly and brutally reduces Drax to nothing earning 15 thousand pounds in the process Drax is angry and humiliated and threatens BondThat night while Bond and Drax are playing at cards two men in Drax s employ on Moonraker are killed in a murder suicide Allegedly over a beautiful woman who is also a secret agent Gala Brand Her full name is Galatea so Gala is pronounced Gah lah M knows that blaming her for the murder suicide is bullsht She is a professional and an agent Even Drax had hit on her repeatedly and she always refused him wearing an engagement ring When he gets too aggressive she s forced to defend herself physically which she is able to do being an agentBond is assigned to take the dead man s place working for Drax Right into the heart of enemy territory What is in Drax s past Why are all his men sporting shaved heads and mustaches Why are they all German Is the Moonraker mission going to be sabotagedThis was a thrilling engaging edge of your seat mystery Fleming leads you along with little tantalizing clues and glimpses of what s REALLY going on with the Moonraker and you are right alongside Gala and Bond as they work together to figure it out before the impending launchJames Bond definitely has a type so far every single Bond girl has been black haired and blue eyedGala Brand is one of the best additions to the book and by far the best Bond girl yet Fleming makes her an agent and he doesn t hesitate to show s how smart capable strong and determined she is Unlike Vesper who was sulky and sullen and Solitaire who was obedient trusting and submissive to Bond Gala really holds her own even against England s most dangerous agent 007 Fleming really hammers home this point by letting Gala narrate 3rd person the story at numerous points This was very exciting to me and also helped me relate to and sympathize with the character in a way I never could with other Bond girls I loved seeing the world through Gala s eyes and seeing her spy plan and figure things out often even before BondBond himself is scads better regarding sexism in this book I can t comment on racism since there are no people in this book except whites I mean he s no liberal woman s rights activist and that s not what I m asking that s not what I expect him to be ALL I ASK from James Bond is that he a sees the woman he s with as a person not a toy or a stupid nuisance and b that he only engages infantasizes about consensual sex and doesn t hurtwant to hurt the Bond girl THAT S IT Those are my only reuirements I m not even asking him to treat a woman as his eual only asking that he consider her a human being with feelings and desires of her own You d think this wouldn t be too much to ask but then again it s James BondANYWAY He is ALMOST perfect in this book He really looks after "gala he wants to protect her when she "he wants to protect her When she in danger he worries about her instead of planning to let her die as he so coldly did with Vesper in Casino Royale He saves Gala s life numerous times often shielding her body with his and taking most of the punishment once during a landslide and once during an explosion He does his best to protect her and save her and keep her from harm He never made any snide angry comments about how seless or weak she was which he often did with Vesper I was very proud of himAnd on Gala s part she is amazing Even Bond admits she s got a great head for numbers Gala impresses Bond with her bravery and intelligence again and again She even comes p with the final plan to save England at the end Bond is going to do something that would save England but kill a lot of people and she s tells him that he expects her to just take orders from him but instead she s got a better plan Bond listens to her He trusts her In the end it s her own plan that saves EnglandThe only times I was angry with Bond and this book didn t get 5 stars because of it 1 Stealing a kiss from Gala even that I could forgive if it had been the only infraction 2 And this is really my main problem Bond wanting to kick Gala as a punishment for get this not flirting with him oO This kind of male entitlement annoys me to no end And after the Isla Vista killings I can t even stand reading about this kind of man who wants to hurt women simply because they are not sexually interested in him If I didn t have enough to worry about from simply being born female now in addition I find myself fretting over turning men down for dates I can t even tell you how awful and scary it is to think that rejecting a guy will lead to him hurtingkilling you My friend asked me the other day How do I reject a guy in a way that he won t murder me and it just BROKE MY HEART For these reasons I could not forgive Bond for thinking this way and if the Isla Vista killings had never happened this might not have affected me so strongly but they are still fresh my mind and the minds of my friendsfamilyBond s relationship with M is explored in this book and it s very touching I was even going Awwwww sometimes when Bond and M were talking to each other Fleming really shows what a strong friendship the two of them have togetherLastly I
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like Fleming did great job of showing Bond s humanity He doubts himself second guesses himself even berates himself for mistakes in this novel He s human both mentally and physically he takes ite a few beatings in this novel and Fleming does a great job as Chance Encounter usual of showing a pretty realistic recovery period and how injuries would affect Bond s fighting abilities I really appreciated this human side of Bond s mind and bodyOverall this is a great book Bond really stepsp and improves his behavior Fleming provides NodeMCU ESP8266 Communication Methods and Protocols : Programming with Arduino IDE us with our first capable love interest and in addition we get a mystery that is fun to try and put together I can only hope that other books in this series continue with these trends I don t want to have to write a 1 star Bond review again BUT I WILL IF I HAVE TO Do you hear me Fleming UPDATE Okay I saw the 1979 film with Roger Moore UmThe only reason to watch this film is to see all the beautiful women in it There are tons of gorgeous women in the movieHowever if you re not attracted to women or you actually want some kind ofality in your movie there s nothing else No cute men no acting abilities and zero plot It s confusing silly and nonsensical Almost a parody of a spy film I do not find Roger Moore attractive in the leastIf you re choosing between the book and film DEFINITELY pick the book It s 100x better A 84% Very Good Notes James Bond dispirited office worker awaits assignment and considers the empty material life his profession affords. T cards Bond has just five days to ncover the sinister truth behind a national hero in Ian Fleming’s third 007 adventur. .