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That's a good review, has the ring of truth. I sort of read bits of it years ago. I found the M thing a bit disturbing and not the usual Bond thing; it did denigrade the character a bit I found. One good sex scene with Ariadne (and Fleming was about the only author who had the stomach for sex scenes imo) and that's about it. It wasn't like you could dip into it and get little nuggets that made you want to read on, irrespective of the plot chronology.
Interestingly, Fleming's widow Anne HATED CS. She was - and remained - against anyone continuing the Bond series, and ESPECIALLY, Amis. She feared Bond would end up like his character Lucky Jim, flaunting authority and selling out his country to the Russians. According Lycett's Fleming bio, she wrote a scathing review of the book for a London newspaper that was never published for fear of a libel suit! Amis said he loved writing the book because he got to tweak some of his leftist friends.
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