Thursday, June 19, 2008

Devil May Care

Testing Goodread.com's "past to blog" function. Would anyone be interested in seeing these here, instead of having to go to goodreads?

Devil May Care Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks


My review


rating: 4 of 5 stars
From the way the cover is worded, "Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming", I assume that Faulks was trying to write a real, Fleming-style Bond book. I think he succeeded - he definitely did his homework. The whole book is peppered with references to Fleming's books, from Bond's wardrobe preference to workout routines to cars to scrambled eggs. The overall plot structure felt pretty authentic, too - he even ends the book similarly to Fleming's. I thought it was thouroughly enjoyable - I'm glad someone is back writing Bond books, and Faulks seems like a great choice.



I can't compare this to any of Faulks other writing; I haven't read any of it. I did notice, though, that one of his previous books was a "collection of literary parodies," which might be interesting - and probably served him well when trying to write like Fleming...


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3 comments:

SnowLeopard said...

Maybe it would be good to post here- I have been pretty bad at leaving comments on your goodread site. I need to do some reviews myself...

MarcT. said...

Post here, definitely. I'm not on goodreads and your posts here have been sparse of late. Keep 'em coming.

Corinne said...

I would also enjoy your reviews connected to your blog! I use bookreads, but I don't troll looking for reviews!