Have a great Christmas and a smashing 2025 This truly is my favourite Fleming book - in my head Connery influenced the Scottish element of Bond’s heritage and for that reason alone it is awesome …oh, and surely OHMSS also counts as a Christmas movie 🎄
Many thanks to one and all for this podcast on TH-cam! OHMSS is my personal favorite of all the Bond thrillers. It's so literate, and I still marvel at how deftly ILF managed to get 10 (!), lovely young ladies from the UK into that "Eagle's Nest" high atop a mtn in the Austrian Alps and keep them plausible!! And of course, what a romantic, tragic ending ...
My favorite Bond film, but I find the film to be an improvement over the book. I've read the book, and I've found the descriptions went too far (some are not really necessary and just redundancies like the Michelin tires and the measurements) that it made my reading a bit slow, too many foreign languages too moreso than Casino Royale, the romance was half cooked or underdeveloped for me to buy, this was supposed to be Bond's greatest love but Fleming never gave any thoughts to the romance, he'd just made Bond like "Well, I need to be married by now and well, there's this girl,well, I will marry her", no sincerity, I mean, Bond's romance with Vesper and Tiffany in the previous books are more convincing because Fleming put a lot in them, the romances are fleshed out. Tracy was also not fleshed out as a character, Fleming didn't wrote much about her, we haven't got to know more of her unlike the previous Bond Girls, we've only got to know her based on the third person view, but she's not fully developed, I don't know who she really was as a character aside from being a depressed, troubled, and frustrated spoiled brat girl, sure, she had driven Bond out coincidentally from the situation against Blofeld, but that's not enough for me to buy her as Bond's one true love and would make her stands above the rest, I don't even know her that much. Blofeld was such a mysterious character, but his menace had been reduced a bit, especially, expecting more after his descriptions in Thunderball, but here, he'd just became a frustrated, reclusive weirdo wanting a title and using beautiful girls to destroy the Agriculture of Ireland and UK. The middle section was a bit slow either, it's full of build up but the pay off failed to land the stick because Bond and Blofeld didn't have any confrontation, and didn't have much action it. The ending was tragic though, so gonna give it that.
Have a great Christmas and a smashing 2025
This truly is my favourite Fleming book - in my head Connery influenced the Scottish element of Bond’s heritage and for that reason alone it is awesome
…oh, and surely OHMSS also counts as a Christmas movie 🎄
Short answer is yes - best movie too 😮
Many thanks to one and all for this podcast on TH-cam!
OHMSS is my personal favorite of all the Bond thrillers.
It's so literate, and I still marvel at how deftly ILF managed to get 10 (!), lovely young ladies from the UK into that "Eagle's Nest" high atop a mtn in the Austrian Alps and keep them plausible!!
And of course, what a romantic, tragic ending ...
I think it’s Fleming’s best.
My favorite Bond film, but I find the film to be an improvement over the book.
I've read the book, and I've found the descriptions went too far (some are not really necessary and just redundancies like the Michelin tires and the measurements) that it made my reading a bit slow, too many foreign languages too moreso than Casino Royale, the romance was half cooked or underdeveloped for me to buy, this was supposed to be Bond's greatest love but Fleming never gave any thoughts to the romance, he'd just made Bond like "Well, I need to be married by now and well, there's this girl,well, I will marry her", no sincerity, I mean, Bond's romance with Vesper and Tiffany in the previous books are more convincing because Fleming put a lot in them, the romances are fleshed out.
Tracy was also not fleshed out as a character, Fleming didn't wrote much about her, we haven't got to know more of her unlike the previous Bond Girls, we've only got to know her based on the third person view, but she's not fully developed, I don't know who she really was as a character aside from being a depressed, troubled, and frustrated spoiled brat girl, sure, she had driven Bond out coincidentally from the situation against Blofeld, but that's not enough for me to buy her as Bond's one true love and would make her stands above the rest, I don't even know her that much.
Blofeld was such a mysterious character, but his menace had been reduced a bit, especially, expecting more after his descriptions in Thunderball, but here, he'd just became a frustrated, reclusive weirdo wanting a title and using beautiful girls to destroy the Agriculture of Ireland and UK.
The middle section was a bit slow either, it's full of build up but the pay off failed to land the stick because Bond and Blofeld didn't have any confrontation, and didn't have much action it.
The ending was tragic though, so gonna give it that.