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My favorite moment from this book is Bond's horrified realization that he slept with a vegetarian.
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Disappointed you didn't mention the INSANE scene of Felix screaming "Fuck it!" and rolling into the middle of a firefight in his gadget laden wheelchair screaming "Yeeha!!" like Leroy Jenkins
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Shirley Bassey: "Take the good, take the bad, take 'em both & there you'll have the Facts of Death, the Facts of DeeeeEEEEAAAATH!!!!" (collapses)
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Benson was in the comments. My Word. Congrats calvin
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Calvin Dyson interviews Raymond Benson ā¦.. thatās a win - win for all of usā¦ā¦
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A Calvin book review just makes my week ā¤
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I assume "Mansfield" name for M was a reference to the (real) first Head of MI:6 (Mansfield Smith-Cumming).
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I always loved how Benson used a real world spy assassination (Georgi Markov and the ricin umbrella) as the inspiration for a moment in the novel. Years later when I saw a replica of the umbrella gun used to assassinate Markov (the real one is likely at the bottom of the Thames), I flashed back to The Facts of Death.
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I never thought I would be so interested to watch book review videos, but with each book they seem to get a bit better.
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Bensonās tenure was such a shot of energy for the Literary Bond after the later Gardner years that it cannot be overstated. I grew up reading Gardner and Benson alongside Fleming.
Benson remains my favorite of the main continuation authors. He incorporates elements of the films but ensures they never overwhelm the Literary Bond or the legacy of the books. Thereās also a great sense of paying tribute to all the past books while maintaining a new story that also has good plot hooks and sequences.
The Facts of Death was my favorite Benson for a long time and is only eclipsed by High Time To Kill. The characters and action beats are well done and thereās a few flashes of the films in places.
The best element is Bensonās plot focus never wavering which is essential to a successful Bond story.
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11:47 'The World is not enough' film also links back to 'OHMSS' with Barbara Broccoli describing Elektra as 'Bond thinks he's found Tracey when he's actually found Blofeld' and that was the novel/film his family motto was first mentioned so it it's a nice link.
The movie involves M's relationship with her old friend [Robert King-who's quickly assassinated] and his daughter are a key plot point while here M's quickly killed boyfriend and his wayward son are involved. Development of 'world' started in November 97 so it might just be similar thinking.
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I lived in Turkish Cyprus for 7 years, and knew President DenktaÅ who appears in the book. Not often I get the country in any novel, let alone the man!
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If the Facts of Death had been a Movie, I think Bjork's 'Play Dead' would have been a perfect fit as the theme song.
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Iād have to say High Time to Kill was my favorite benson era book. Canāt wait to hear your thoughts on that.
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The highlight of my Sundays. I love listening to your reviews. Theyāre so well written and spoken
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I read all of Raymond's Bond books when they were first released, and then I re-read them all again around 15 years ago. I've just finished them once more and still find them wonderfully entertaining adventures.
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It's interesting you make that point between how Gardner and Benson handle the weirder points in their stories, because it's been three years since I read this one (yeah, I read it in 2021 ā an interesting time indeed to read a story all about a virus) and the whole sperm bank plot point had completely escaped my memory. It didn't stick in my mind as a strange plot point in the same way as Gardner having Bond in Disneyland or in a cult wedding.
Maybe because it was early on in the book and wasn't the setting of the grand, uh, climax. Now if the sperm bank had been the villains' grand lair ā with a grand Ken Adam design that came under siege like something out of the Lewis Gilbert trilogy ā now that would've been a bizarre turn for the ages.
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The EON-ness of this book has me wonderingā¦ wouldnāt it be fun to see our boy Calvin fantasy cast some of these unadapted books?
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Bensonās era is very much a movie oriented era. Gadgets galore, the car is probably the best car Broz never drove. Cannot wait till you cover the Union Trilogy.
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@RaymondBenson
2 weeks ago
Thank you so much, Calvin, I'm pleased you liked it!
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