2005-12-19 - 12:28 p.m. - On Her Majesty's Secret Service, by Ian Fleming
Ha, well, it's been a while since I updated THIS baby. I may attempt to address the backlog in a bit, once grad school application stuff is done. Anyway, yesterday I finished knocking out On Her Majesty's Secret Service, which is the first Bond novel I've ever undertaken. I came in with at best a cursory familiarity with the character, thanks to the maybe half-dozen of the movies that I've seen some portion of. It should be said that I picture Bond as looking like Pierce Brosnan, talking like Sean Connery, and acting like Roger Moore. The film of On Her Majesty's Secret Service starred George Lazenby, so no doubt I am going to be somewhat disoriented if I ever get around to watching that. Anyway! The book is fun! Very quickly digestible, as you'd expect from the sort of pulpy genre, but a little more involved in details than necessary, which makes it loveable. I occasionally got lost in the abuse of untranslated French and stuff to do with card games, but whatever. Note as well that the books are apparently much less gadget- and explosion-oriented than the films. I was fine by that. Long story short, this was fun and I will probably end up reading more of these; as I've said before, I love books about badasses.