'Role of Honour' | John Gardner 007 Book Review | James Bond Meets ‘War Games’

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2 жыл бұрын

We're back! After a two year hiatus! Back on the John Gardner James Bond continuation novels and... Well... True to form there's plenty of craziness in this one.
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@BenCol 2 жыл бұрын

Forget Waltz-Blofeld, if there’s anyone deserving of the title of ‘Author of all your Pain’, it’s John Gardner.

@donaldanderson6604 2 жыл бұрын

Gardner used to live across the road from me. At a party he got into conversation with someone who worked at a nearby air base. He immediately started asking about flight simulators and you could see he was storing every detail for a potential plot. Nice bloke.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 2 жыл бұрын

So glad you're back with the literary reviews. As someone who has read/slogged their way through two thirds of the Gardner novels I share your bewilderment! Keep at it, really appreciated!

@HunterJ1999 2 жыл бұрын

I really look forward to when you eventually get to Anthony Horowitz’s novels as I think they are fantastic, especially Forever and a Day. I can’t wait for With a Mind to Kill!

@ProfessorEchoMedia 2 жыл бұрын

Gardner’s books for the most part had the dullest titles. Fleming’s titles were so evocatively intriguing you couldn’t wait to dive right in. Gardner’s on the other hand feel like you are diving into strained peas.

@CodytheVictorian 2 жыл бұрын

You know, Gardner was gonna keep SPECTRE around you’d think he’d have kept Blofeld’s daughter around as it’s leader. Also, these names are definitely an Englishman trying way to hard to make American sounding names and it’s hilarious to me.

@aperson22222 2 жыл бұрын

I’m glad you’re doing this again but I might suggest skipping ahead. There are too many John Gardner books and later authors do much better work.

@echoeco214 2 жыл бұрын

Ha to the chicken vindaloo observation! This is definitely one of the weaker and less memorable early Gardners. It gets a bit better from here, if memory serves, before completely falling off a cliff.

@damienfenton3880 2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on reaching 50k subscribers. Definitely well deserved!

@cliojustclio4473 2 жыл бұрын

in this book, Bond goes up against his most fearsome adversary - a Gamer™

@Jnensrevenge 2 жыл бұрын

I have a soft spot for these Gardern novels. I read half of them when I was in the military a decade ago and rest while working in aviation before the pandemic.

@Aceimus1066 2 жыл бұрын

You know it's Sunday when a Calvin Dyson video goes live. 👏

@BenCol 2 жыл бұрын

Tamil Rahani does come back in the next book. It turns out he landed badly from his parachute jump and injured his spine, meaning he spends the entire novel paralysed on his deathbed (this is all revealed fairly early on so it’s not a plot spoiler).

@betamaxblocker 2 жыл бұрын

So happy to see these reviews again! Gardner seemed to think that adding in as many characters with bizarre (and multiple) names as possible was a good substitute for telling an intelligent story.

@MortenLM 2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on 50k subscribers! WOW That's enough people to fill up a stadium! You deserve it! :)

@NitroSolez 2 жыл бұрын

Also, what you say about Fleming's "sense of place" is great. The Fleming novels absolutely have the locations-as-characters.

@paulgeorge3915 2 жыл бұрын

I'm old enough to have read the Gardner Bonds when they were originally released, and it was around about Role Of Honour that I realized I was just reading them out of a sense of duty as a Bond fan and that if they had featured any other hero, I'd have given up on the series.

@menkomonty 2 жыл бұрын

Role of Honour was the first Bond book that I ever read, so despite it being a tad flat, it still has a special place in my Bond fan's heart

@stuartwebb7932 2 жыл бұрын

The most interesting about this one is probably the behind the scenes detail about how Bond was supposed to play an elaborate computer game against the baddy...

@donovaneddiealanhodges1499 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, yes! It has been two and a half years since we had 007 novel reviews. So, it's certainly a welcome return here.🎊🎉 YAAYY! And James Bond with video games? Curious if he were to be as good as a 🖲gamer👾 once in Never Say Never Again.