I read The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming so you don't have to.
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what's worse, is I can't whistle until I suck. LOL
In Ian Fleming's mind, Scaramanga would have the appearance of Mexican actor German Valdez/ Tin-Tan.
John Waters hahahahahah OMG
I had to look back at the book to be sure, and Felix was apparently tasked by Scaramanga to tie the Goodnight mannequin to the tracks to deceive Bond and right after he did that, he mined the bridge on his own volition. So I guess he had a busy morning. Anyway, it is never really explained how his plan was supposed to work. I guess he and Bond would have leapt off the party train before it hit the bridge and everyone would have died in the ensuing explosion/accident. The book never really makes it clear though. Felix also states he didn't think that Bond would try to stop the train upon seeing the mannequin so Bond inadvertently ruined his main plan. I appreciate your using clips from Bridge on the River Kwai as Felix mentions that film right after the accident. This was a fun review!
thanks for knowing the River Kwai reference! :)
Please do a video on your thoughts on the vampire lestat teaser from comic con!!! I’m still losing my mind from watching it!
A little context for this book-it was supposed to be the end of an arc for James Bond that started with ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE which ended with his bride Tracey's death, and he'd fallen to pieces. M sent him to Japan on a diplomatic mission to persuade the head of Japanese Intelligence, "Tiger" Tanaka, to give Her Majesty's Secret Service their hot new codebreaking machine-because it was either that or sack him!
Tanaka tells Bond what he wants is for Bond to kill a Westerner who's created a Garden of Death for suicidal Japanese-a job Bond agrees to with a shrug until he discovers the Westerner is in fact Blofeld, who had killed Tracey while aiming for him. Now well motivated, Bond is disguised as a low-caste mute Japanese laborer, he sneaks into Blofeld's lair, gets caught, but still succeeds to get his vengeance by killing both Blofeld and Irma Blunt with his bare hands. The volcano Blofeld built his Garden on blows while Bond's escaping and that's where he develops amnesia, whereupon he's rescued by beautiful pearl diver "Kissy" Suzuki who's in love with him, and she persuades him he's her fiance so they get married and Kissy gets pregnant...just in time for James to see the word "Vladivostok" in an English-language newspaper and remember just enough to know this is somehow...important, so he has to go there and find out why....
I'm so excited to see this!! I was afraid the series would end after YOLT and I would never find out what happened in this probably execrable novel. Thank you for this series!
Holy shit. I’m gay and I can’t whistle unless I suck air in 😅also I’m a millennial and I have no problem with the “problematic” parts of books. It’s like a window into another time. It doesn’t mean that it’s not a good book or a fun read just because it doesn’t fit into our current world views. I promise you in 20 years there are going to be things we look at about today’s culture that even the most open minded of us are gonna be like “yikes”.
Just finished reading it and I was disappointed.
I expected a Western-style shootout and the only thing close we get to it is the train scene (which reminded me of DAF).
Also, the chance meeting and the fact he was offered a job (Scaramanga questions Bond's motives several times but never acts upon it) just sounds ludicrous.
Imagine if the two stories had their narratives switched.