Not for fans of the movie (You Only Live Twice - Ian Fleming)

Member Name: leeman-seed

Product:	You Only Live Twice - Ian Fleming
Date:	12/01/09 (38 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great descriptive writing,

Disadvantages: lacking in plot, rushed ending

Don't be fooled by the title this book has little resembalence to the film, as most people who have read the Ian Fleming 007 series know is quite often the case.

PLOT
Like the film this books plot is set in Japan were a broken down james Bond distrought about his wifes death (What we would diagonose as depression in todays day and age) is sent by M and the secret service on one final mission to try and sap him out of it.

The mission is simple to kill blofeld who is osing as a biologist in an old castle just of the coast of Japan.

He is aided by Tiger Tanaka and Kissy Suzuki (other similarities to the movie) and also has thefamous being made to look like a Japanese man section which is also a part in the film.

IMPRESSION - CONTAINS SPOILERS
Whilst reading this book you get a very in depth look at what life in Japan would have been like in the 1950-60s and has the great Ian Fleming descriptions. but to be completely honest i could not get into this book as much as the others, James Bonds mind state takes away all the charm and personalitly that he is known for, and the plot seems thin as if it had been made up by a school child. also the ending is incredibaly weak,

I get the overall impression that an Flemming was tierd of wrighting these books by this point and this seemed like a rushed attempt to tie things up ... Blofelds hurried death, Jmes Bond loosing his memory.

Worth reading as part of the series but definatly one i wouldn't pick up again

Summary: Read as part of the series not as a stand alone