How old were you when you first read 'SeaFire'?
#1
Posted 30 October 2008 - 02:58 AM
Like many of the other Gardner Bond books, I picked this one up (a US Berkley paperback) in a nearby bookstore sometime around 2004 or so. As this was his second last Bond novel, I ended up holding onto it for a while since I wanted to try and go through the Gardner era in a relatively chronological order.
Although it seems to get it's fair share of criticism amnongst Bond fans (like pretty much every other Bond novel in the second half of Gardner's run), I actually rank it as one of his better ones. The plot wasn't too convoluted and Sir Max Tarn was one of the more memorable villains.
Certainly worth a re-read here and there.
And you?
#2
Posted 03 November 2008 - 01:03 AM
So, Gardner was very important for me because without him I wouldn't have ever read Higson or perhaps even Fleming. I think the early Gardner books are good and I go back to them often.
As for SeaFire? It is decent but like most of his latter Bond efforts, i don't think he wanted to be doing this anymore. It's readable because he was too good an author to write a bad novel but it's nothing memorable.
#3
Posted 03 November 2008 - 01:07 AM
#4
Posted 11 December 2008 - 10:37 PM
#5
Posted 11 December 2008 - 11:01 PM
#6
Posted 11 December 2008 - 11:05 PM
#7
Posted 11 December 2008 - 11:07 PM
I can't recall how old I was but, hell, I sure felt that I'd aged considerably while so doing. Of all the Gardner abominations, I feel this was one of the worst.
Really? I thought the Man From Barbarossa was worse and the one that ends at Disney--which one was that?
And No Deals, Mr. Bond--blech.
Edited by dogmanstar, 11 December 2008 - 11:08 PM.
#8
Posted 11 December 2008 - 11:22 PM
I can't recall how old I was but, hell, I sure felt that I'd aged considerably while so doing. Of all the Gardner abominations, I feel this was one of the worst.
Really? I thought the Man From Barbarossa was worse and the one that ends at Disney--which one was that?
And No Deals, Mr. Bond--blech.
The Disney one was Never Send Flowers, wasn't it? I forget because I found them all pretty dreadful and haven't read any of them for years.
#9
Posted 12 December 2008 - 05:02 AM