![]() But at the end Vivienne receives a lecture about the dangers of all men like Bond, good and bad. Of course, he may have been bored with writing a new thriller year after year and wanted to try his hand at something different. He later explained that he wrote The Spy Who Loved Me because of his dismay of learning his books, written for adults, were being read by the young and wanted to write a cautionary tale. As a result Fleming asked his publisher not to issue reprints or a paperback edition. The story is told in the first person by the heroine, Vivienne Michel, and James Bond only appears in the last third of the book.Īgain, it showcases a different side of Fleming’s writing but received an extremely poor reception. Ian Fleming experimented radically with The Spy Who Loved Me. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Only on Fleming’s death was it released as a paperback and it is worth a read as a Fleming novel, but perhaps not as a Bond novel. Buy The Spy Who Loved Me: Read the tenth gripping unforgettable James Bond novel (James Bond 007, 10) by Fleming, Ian, Kennedy, Douglas from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Bond does not appear until the end of the book and it is missing the familiar descriptions of food, drink, cars, etc that marked out the previous Bond outings. ![]()
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