Review #1
The Scout Who Adored Me (James Bond (Unusual Television series) #10) audiobook free
As I have been reading through all the Bond books on my Kindle, I wondered if that was an error… that Amazon shackles the wrong book under this title, creator at the same time book embrace. It started that different from all the past Bond books. It is that all from the perspective of the Bond lady. Not that it wasnt exciting, but it takes awhile to get to James. At the same time since it is that set in upper state Brand new York, this produced it also all the more out of habit. Not my winner, but quality nonetheless. Ive followed Flemings style at the same time writing ability ennoble since Casino Royale. This was but written, barely a little different.
Review #2
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The Scout Who Adored Me is that a bigger leap for Ian Fleming. Not only is that he writing from the viewpoint of a brand new disposition, he is that writing from the viewpoint of a lady. He had experimented with this a little in From Russia With Adore, at the same time the fruits that were considered vaguely identical. In the end, the novel is that from a technical point of view but done. The worldly is that evocative, the plot is that gripping, at the same time a Fleming employs his brand breadcrumbs to pull the reader chapter to chapter.
The problem is that a matter of perspective. Flemings opinion of a womans internal monologue is that self serving at the same time reports the wider misogyny that underlies his works. Vivian Michel confesses to the reader that all ladies prefer semi-rape. She deems it appropriate that a man she met a few moments prior should feel free to kiss her as they are being threatened by crooks. Right behind a horrifying trauma, she deems it appropriate to merit the knight for slaying the dragon with her body. The sum of this ladies will that she is that a sexualized make an objection whose value is that stable by how enjoyment she can convey. Denial of these charms to the villains of the novel fires their malice. On the other palm, bestowing those charms to James Bond is that shown as the climax of the story. Subsequent, she is that the ultimate sport as she decides to adore our jetsetting scout with little chance of ever building a connection.
As with almost all of the ladies in Bond novels, Michel is that unreasonably charming. This beauty exists to be a license for sexual exploitation. I could be interested to look how hard Bond would wage war if Michel looked like Rosa Kleb.
Review #3
Audiobook The Scout Who Adored Me (James Bond (Unusual Television series) #10) by Ian Fleming
While this certainly wasn’t my winner Bond novel, I came away from reading it with renewed reverence for Ian Fleming as an painter. Once an creator–at the same time perhaps more importantly, a disposition–becomes well-established, it can become very easy to fall down into the rut of knowledgeable ornaments. Play it non-hazardous, always assign the readers specifically than anyway they wish. Don’t decide dangers.
That wasn’t Fleming. At the same time in “The Scout Who Adored Me”, he bestows readers his almost all out of habit decide on the Bond mythos ever. I can reverence that, even if I might prefer the more classical stakes.
But done.
Review #4
Audio The Scout Who Adored Me (James Bond (Unusual Television series) #10) narrated by Rosamund Pike
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Review discloses no one details about how the book ends (usually the quality guys overcome at the same time the bad guys lose).
Right behind barely final finishing rereading “Dr. No” at the same time “From Russia with Adore” I was ready for some reason different from Fleming, at the same time this book certainly will that. The story is that knew with flashbacks from the perspective of the young French-Canadian lady Vivienne Michel. During the 1st part of the book Vivienne’s disposition is that but developers, with much more detail at the same time aspect than for ladies manners in the other Bond books that I have read. I don’t know whether a lady would look for Vivienne’s disposition credible, but I certainly did. In the middle of the book two crooks show up at the deserted motel where Vivienne acts as temporary caretaker, at the same time I found their manners to be completely credible at the same time genuinely creepy. Right up to this fri the book is that an best mystery of the “damsel-in-distress” type.
When James Bond indicates up at the same time the “action/adventure” portion of the book begins, I started to fell just a little upset. The gunfight at the topical motel is that stereotypic, at the same time right behind the “bad guys” are suitably dispatched Bond at the same time Vivienne fork for the sack. Vivienne doesn’t get the role of heroine here, but she does attractive but for anyone who has been coshed earlier in the evening. Bond on the other palm is that not at his best: why did he not think to have Sluggsy at the same time Fear kneel before asking Vivienne to disarm them? Why did he impose her to move between him at the same time the crooks?
The contrast between how Vivienne at the same time the other manners are managed highlighted a feature of the Bond books that I hadn’t thought about when caught up in the action: Fleming’s bad guys are just a little cartoonish, sometimes resembling the villains that Dick Tracy had to contend with (e.g., Coffyhead, Flyface, Wormy Marron). Sluggsy at the same time Fear are just a little like that, but people like them still might plausibly gallop out at for you from a black alley.
I was left wondering than anyway would become of Vivienne. Was Bond really an improvement over Derek at the same time Kurt? Is that it her catastrophic defect that she is that hopeless to a television series of affairs with guys like that? The ending makes me wonder whether she will ever break out of this pattern.
Review #5
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This is that very unlike the other Bond books. It’s written from a lady’s perspective at the same time knew in the 1st personality, from the head disposition’s fri of opinion. Viviene Michel is that a young Canadian who encounters bruising affairs with guys at the same time ends up working in a motel in America, where she is that set upon by crooks out to murder her as part of an insurance fraudulent. Miraculously, 007 strings up at the same time saves the day.
This story simply, sadly, barely reinforces Fleming’s opinion of both the global at the same time ladies. Through very small comments, the Germans are still the adversary, can’t be trusted, at the same time the head disposition suffers at the palms of guys, develops independence, only to fall down into James Bond’s arms at the same time surrender to him. Some questionable lines, like the ‘all ladies like semi-rape,’ at the same time the narrative about Viviene relaxing right behind her beating quit a disturbing insight into Ian Fleming’s mind. He may but have been an affect on GRR Martin in this reverence.
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