TSWLM 'book of the film' by Christopher Wood

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• Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters

  August 2010

  I think that Wood's James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me is probably the best of the Bond novelisations. It adds a lot of meat to the film, and unlike most novelisations, does not simply transpose the film into written form. It takes on more of the flavour of an Ian Fleming novel and is all the better for it. If you browse through the forum you will find various peoples' takes on Wood's novel. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
• crawfordboon1 Posts: 3MI6 Agent

  August 2010

  Have only read the first few chapters, but it does differ a fair bit from the film. I wonder if the novel is taken directly from Wood's screenplay, which as we know was later re-worked by others into the finished film.
• Napoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent

  August 2010

  Hi, not surprisingly his book has come up for discussion before:
  
  http://www.ajb007.co.uk/search/1862750214/
  
  Check out ChrisNo1's Continuation Novels thread, then a fair bit below jetsetwilly's take on Wood's autobiography, The Spy I Loved.
  
  I like Wood the best of them all aside from Fleming. He effortlessly updates the genre and brings some sex and sadism to the table broadly missed in the other novelisations.

  "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."
  
  Roger Moore 1927-2017
• chrisno1 LondonPosts: 3,601MI6 Agent

  August 2010

  I rather like it.
  For my full opinion floow the link:
  
  http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/34464/bond-continuation-novel-reviews/
• hegottheboot USAPosts: 327MI6 Agent

  August 2010

  This came out of nowhere for me. I was really expecting a typical film novelization and not an attempt to put Fleming's Bond in a similar plot. Definitely worth the read and enjoyable to see an alternate TSWLM.
  
  Is the Moonraker novelization similar?
• chrisno1 LondonPosts: 3,601MI6 Agent

  August 2010

  Similar, but not quite as good IMO.