Review Of TMWTRT: Turning To A Novel And Not A Film

I didn't realise the connection between Benson's Tanaka and Tetsuro Tamba's Tanaka, but mow that it's mentioned, I did notice a difference.

To me, taking info from the films is bad. The books are books, the films films. What if Fleming had lived longer and written a novel that referred to the rocket-capturing in You Only Live Twice?
Silly little kids who had only seen the film (but why read the book if you only watch the film?) might relate to Fleming's newest book, but most people who had read Fleming's previous book would think: 'Where does that rocket business fit in with Fleming's adventures? What in God's name is he going on about?'

Now I'm not one to fully separate film and book: I like to think that the films (or most anyway) are merely celluloid forms of Bond's original written adventures. But when a film follows a different path than the novel--let's take a beneficial example: Tracey's kidnapping from the film--the next novel should not contain a line such as: 'Bond had always wondered what Blofeld did with Tracey', because it's confusing.

And especially when Benson is not doing what I'd rather he did (just writing really good novelisations), and writing his own follow-up to Fleming's adventures, he ought to cater to people who read, not some moron who saw a few James Bond films and decides to read what he considers Bond.

But it was better than TFOD, so all's not lost.

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