How old were you when you fist read 'Death is Forever'?

As with earlier mblbc.gif threads... how old were you when you first read John Gardner's 11th James Bond novel, Death Is Forever?

I remember stumbling across the US paperback edition in a nearby used bookstore, The Bookworm, when I had just started to read the Gardner Bond books. I grabbed a copy along with For Special Services, Icebreaker and a couple others and just held onto it a while (since I tried to read his books in relatively sequential order).

I must have been around 16 or 17 when I finally gave it a read. It was--and remains--just an "OK" Gardner Bond for me. Not as enjoyable as Never Send Flowers which followed it, but definitely an improvement over the previous one, The Man From Barbarossa.

I really should give it a reread soon to see if my opinion has changed.

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