Sunday, July 6, 2008

Devil May Care, but why should I?

Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks
I am quite disappointed with the book. There was a big hoopla about Sebastian Faulks writing the first James Bond novel since the death of its creator Ian Fleming. Maybe the expectations were too high? Maybe we are all so influenced by the 007 movies, that leaping back in time into 1960s seems unrealistic. It's hard to get in the mood of the book at the time of the cold war, without mobile phones and other super-gadgets that made movie-Bond so attractive. Especially since we all know the book is contemporary, just written, its ink still wet.
In addition, the story is naive, the plot too simple and too predictable, the villain too unforgivably bad without the clear reason to be bad and there's no suspense. I guess I endured through this book in the memory of the original Bond books from my youth, but will not repeat the mistake, unless the Fleming estate changes the author.

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