Devil May Care

JimmyBond0129

Is the new Bond novel, movie material or is it garbage? I can't offer an opinion yet because I haven't read it that's why I'm asking one of you.

Hardyboy

There's a DMC reviews thread in the Novels forum, and that should give you a good sense of how many of us here feel about the novel. To give you the short version, if the filmmakers were to touch this second-rate bit of writing, they should keep the title and throw everything else out.

petrsvoren

***** five star

shaken66

It was a good beach read when I was on vacation a month ago, but one major plot device you could see coming very early on. I enjoyed it but it was a bit predictable and I wouldn't consider it being movie material.

blofeld#1

Getting mine soon . Hope it lives up to its hype.

zaphod

Faulks was slumming it and it shows. Devil May Care is lazy half arsed, and a missed opportunity. I would have loved a burnt out Bond at the end of his carreer, but what we got was more akin to The Man From Uncle. A sad waste in my view.

007brucewayne

shaken66 wrote:

It was a good beach read when I was on vacation a month ago, but one major plot device you could see coming very early on. I enjoyed it but it was a bit predictable and I wouldn't consider it being movie material.

I agree. I was on vacation on a little island south of Rio and I figured it would be a great location to read a Bond novel. It was very predictable indeed and although entertaining it felt like the writer was just following some kind of "30 minute meal" recipe.

It's a fun read. I recommend it.

Rick Roberts

zaphod wrote:

Faulks was slumming it and it shows. Devil May Care is lazy half arsed, and a missed opportunity. I would have loved a burnt out Bond at the end of his carreer, but what we got was more akin to The Man From Uncle. A sad waste in my view.

Agreed. I also hated the needless references to Fleming's novels. It's just like Die Another Day in that respect, a cut and paste book.

blofeld#1

I recieved the book (finally). On chapter 3 so far . It's alright . I notice the different style from Fleming though.