Is On Her Majesty's Secret Service Fleming's best 007 novel?
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the book in which Bond faces his archnemesis, Blofeld. However, it also shows a rare, deeply emotional side of 007 as he falls in love with the enigmatic Tracy di Vicenzo. Packed with high-stakes action, breathtaking Alpine settings, and a story that forever changes the Bond mythos, it’s a classic that deserves a closer look. Let’s dive in.
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service Book Club Takeaways
Ian Fleming’s Masterpiece?: Discover how Fleming has returned to form with On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. The book is praised for its emotional depth and rich character development, marking it as one of his best James Bond books.
Bond's Personal Evolution: Hear our guests discuss the transformation of James Bond's character in this latest installment. Fleming adds layers to Bond, exploring his humanity and personal relationships, bringing a fresh perspective to the renowned spy.
Thrilling Scenes and Cinematic Flair: From high-stakes chases and avalanche escapes to the climactic showdown at Piz Gloria, the book's vivid and cinematic qualities promise an exhilarating read that could seamlessly transition onto the big screen.
M at Home and at Christmas: Hear why none of the James Bond Book Club Members fancy a Yuletide gathering at M's home.
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In this episode, host Shane Whaley and guests David Craggs, author Andy Onyx, and Hildebrand's Ian Douglas dive deep into Ian Fleming's eleventh James Bond book On Her Majesty Secret Service (1963) as if they are in the year of publication.
Short answer is yes - best movie too 😮
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OHMSS is my personal favorite of all the Bond thrillers.
It's so literate, and I still marvel at how deftly ILF managed to get 10 (!), lovely young ladies from the UK into that "Eagle's Nest" high atop a mtn in the Austrian Alps and keep them plausible!!
And of course, what a romantic, tragic ending ...
Have a great Christmas and a smashing 2025
This truly is my favourite Fleming book - in my head Connery influenced the Scottish element of Bond’s heritage and for that reason alone it is awesome
…oh, and surely OHMSS also counts as a Christmas movie 🎄
I think it’s Fleming’s best.
My favorite Bond film, but I find the film to be an improvement over the book.
I've read the book, and I've found the descriptions went too far (some are not really necessary and just redundancies like the Michelin tires and the measurements) that it made my reading a bit slow, too many foreign languages too moreso than Casino Royale, the romance was half cooked or underdeveloped for me to buy, this was supposed to be Bond's greatest love but Fleming never gave any thoughts to the romance, he'd just made Bond like "Well, I need to be married by now and well, there's this girl,well, I will marry her", no sincerity, I mean, Bond's romance with Vesper and Tiffany in the previous books are more convincing because Fleming put a lot in them, the romances are fleshed out.
Tracy was also not fleshed out as a character, Fleming didn't wrote much about her, we haven't got to know more of her unlike the previous Bond Girls, we've only got to know her based on the third person view, but she's not fully developed, I don't know who she really was as a character aside from being a depressed, troubled, and frustrated spoiled brat girl, sure, she had driven Bond out coincidentally from the situation against Blofeld, but that's not enough for me to buy her as Bond's one true love and would make her stands above the rest, I don't even know her that much.
Blofeld was such a mysterious character, but his menace had been reduced a bit, especially, expecting more after his descriptions in Thunderball, but here, he'd just became a frustrated, reclusive weirdo wanting a title and using beautiful girls to destroy the Agriculture of Ireland and UK.
The middle section was a bit slow either, it's full of build up but the pay off failed to land the stick because Bond and Blofeld didn't have any confrontation, and didn't have much action it.
The ending was tragic though, so gonna give it that.