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Ian Fleming S Twelfth James Bond NovelThe Tragic End To James Bond S Last Mission Courtesy Of Ernst Stavro Blofeld Has Left A Broken Man And Of Little Use To The British Secret ServiceAt His Wit S End, M Decides That The Only Way To Snap His Best Agent Out Of His Torpor Is To Send Him On An Impossible Diplomatic Mission To Japan Bond S Contact There Is The Formidable Japanese Spymaster Tiger Tanaka, Who Agrees To Do Business With The West If Bond Will Assassinate One Of His Enemies A Mysterious Swiss Botanist Named Dr Guntram Shatterhand Shatterhand Is Not Who He Seems, However, And His Impregnable Fortress Known To The Locals As The Castle Of Death Is A Gauntlet Of Traps No Gaijin Has Ever PenetratedBut Through Rigorous Ninja Training, And With Some Help From The Beautiful And Able Kissy Suzuki, Bond Manages To Gain Access To Shatterhand S Lair Inside Lurks Certain Doom At The Hands Of S Bitterest Foe Or A Final Chance To Exact Ultimate Vengeance I ve found that one must try and teach people that there s no top limit to disaster that, so long as breath remains in your body, you ve got to accept the miseries of life They will often seem infinite, insupportable They are part of the human conditionIan Fleming, You Only Live TwiceIan Fleming took James Bond off the interstate of histraditional espionage novels with the last couple books You Only Live Twice is Fleming putting James back into the game The settting for most oI ve found that one must try and teach people that there s no top limit to disaster that, so long as breath remains in your body, you ve got to accept the miseries of life They will often seem infinite, insupportable They are part of the human conditionIan Fleming, You Only Live TwiceIan Fleming took James Bond off the interstate of histraditional espionage novels with the last couple books You Only Live Twice is Fleming putting James back into the game The settting for most of this novel is Japan Bond is hunting for the Japanese Dr Guntram Shatterhand, who turns out to be Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE It is interesting enough, but seems a bit dated with the NINJA scenes and Yellow Face B 77% Good NotesJames Bond, ninja tourist, prefers labor and vice simple and direct, but is sent to Japan land of subtext and etiquette. I am one of the first to admit that I would rather be reading than watching most television, movies, and other media other than a few of my favorite franchise series One of those series is James Bond, and I have seen most films at least once I have a favorite Bond actor and a favorite film for each Bond, which I am partial to and end up repeatingso than the other flicks When classic bingo called for an action or adventure square, I used it as an excuse to read another of Ian Fleming s o I am one of the first to admit that I would rather be reading than watching most television, movies, and other media other than a few of my favorite franchise series One of those series is James Bond, and I have seen most films at least once I have a favorite Bond actor and a favorite film for each Bond, which I am partial to and end up repeatingso than the other flicks When classic bingo called for an action or adventure square, I used it as an excuse to read another of Ian Fleming s original Bond books You Only Live Twice, which also checks off the Y for my A to Z book title challenge, was the last book that Fleming wrote in his lifetime, hence passing the franchise on to other less devoted writers While not my favorite Bond by far, it still presented me a chance to spend time with 007 on an otherwise gloomy winter day.James Bond is reeling, off of his game so to speak It is the 1950s, the height of the cold war, and he has been a 00 agent since the end of World War II He has botched his last two assignments as he is still grieving from the death of his wife Tracey at the hands of the sinister Ernst Stavo Blofield and his equally vile wife Irma Bent Bond believes that he should tender his resignation, yet M, the head of British Secret Service MI,6 can not afford to lose his most capable spy At a time when the threat of nuclear warfare has the entire world on edge, M entrusts Bond with top assignmentsthan ever Yet, Bond would be happy to retire to Jamaica and live out his days in the sun and surf of the island After buttering up and prodding by M, Bond agrees to a promotion to the foreign service and heads to Japan on a classified diplomatic mission.The one caveat of this assignment is that there are no guns or any other secret gadgets available to Bond from MI6 While in a Japan still in the American sphere of influence, Bond must learn to behave like a true member of Japanese society Entrusted in the hands of top Japanese agent Tiger Tanaka, Bond spends the majority of the book immersed in Japanese culture Although he pines for English gin, cigarettes, food, and women, Bond plays the game and becomes passable for one of the taller Japanese miners Versed enough to write a rudimentary haiku and to laugh at the right places, Tanaka believes that Bond is ready for his assignment to infiltrate the Garden of Death located on the remote island of Kyushu off of the Asian Sea While there, he will be under the care of Bond girl Kissy Suzuki, a pearl diver from the nearby island of Kuro who believes 007 to be Taro, a Japanese miner.Behind the garden of death are none other than Blofield and Bent themselves Creating this garden of deadly plants, fish, and volcanic geysers, the couple encourages Japanese suicide seekers to meet their death at their paradise The couple appears just as sinister and vile in this book, as they do in current Bond films, most notably Spectre Yet, Blofield is the only thing similar to the movies from this books Rather than disabling a nuclear weapon that is a threat to western civilization leaving viewers on edge, here Bond desires revenge on Blofield and Bent and is forced to fight them without the aid of a gun This scene makes for a true fight of strength and man power, and was actuallyenjoyable to me than some of the sequences where Bond has multiple killing agents at his disposable And, of course, because Blofield growsevil by the page, I was silently cheering as 007 dueled his rival in true Japanese ninja style.You Only Live Twice is one of the few instances where I may have enjoyed the movie version slightlythan the book While I enjoyed seeing Bond in a different role as a foreign service officer and learning about a culture different than his own, I pined for the action of the big screen I have previously read From Russia With Love and Casino Royale, and both books containedaction than this one Perhaps Fleming suspected that his involvement with Bond was coming to a close, although he left numerous journals that would form the basis of his other stories You Only Live Twice is not my top Bond story, but it was fun and even witty at parts Besides, as longtime Bond viewers know from the screen, James Bond will be back, and hopefully my next Bond read will be better.3.5 stars I WAS reading a lot of espionage and western novels in the early 70s In fact, I had started reading espionage in 1969 with The Man from U.N.C.L.E novels and Ian Fleming s Goldfinger which was followed by Thunderball and finally You Only Live Twice , both of which I read in 1970.Ian Lancaster Fleming writing his novels in the bedroom of his house in Jamaica.Of the three James Bond novels, I think I had liked You Only Live Twice the best Maybe because the location was Japan and I was t I WAS reading a lot of espionage and western novels in the early 70s In fact, I had started reading espionage in 1969 with The Man from U.N.C.L.E novels and Ian Fleming s Goldfinger which was followed by Thunderball and finally You Only Live Twice , both of which I read in 1970.Ian Lancaster Fleming writing his novels in the bedroom of his house in Jamaica.Of the three James Bond novels, I think I had liked You Only Live Twice the best Maybe because the location was Japan and I was totally bewitched by the rich Japanese culture I had already known several Japanese words like kimono, origami, geisha, sayonara and kamikaze through reading books and watching films while I picked up somelike sumo, harakiri and sake a Japanese rice wine from Mr Fleming s tome.The cover of the novel I read as a schoolboy in Calcutta The novel started off with sumo wrestlers wrestling in an arena Just imagine giant babies in pampers butting their heads to start the match I am sure a 148kg sumo would be easily able to lift me up with his little finger, then roll me like a dice in his palm and throw me at the jubilant front seaters However, I wouldn t mind landing on the lap of a beautiful buxom Japanese woman or even a white Spanish senorita Oh Please excuse me for being carried away.Sumo wrestlers lunge towards each other on a clay dohyo an elevated ring.Getting back to the novel I think Ian Fleming also mentioned Bond playing Stone, Paper, Scissors while on his spying business in Japan Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong Then there was this part about how some Japanese shrinked their testes through sheer practise and brain power so as not to get hurt if faced by some crazy rival I was truly enthralled reading all this I kept wondering as to how they did that.Bond was skilled in judo and karate, so, naturally, the location being Japan, the novel had its fair share of that too What would a bond novel be without fast and furious action Sean Connery poses for a publicity still A haiku from the novel became extremely popular when the book was first published and then again when the film was released in 1967 Nobody needs to be reminded that suave and sexy Sean Connery was its hero Bond, James Bond You only live twice Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face Bond composes the haiku in the novel, but it is actually by Basho, a Japanese poet.I thorougly enjoyed the book and found it to be the best of the three Bond novels I had read so far.Playboy magazine featured excerpts from Ian Fleming s You Only Live Twice in its May and June 1964 editions, having artwork by Daniel Schwartz.Towards the fag end of 1969, the film was released at a cinema hall in Calcutta My elder brother took me along with two cousins to watch the night show I loved the opening titles with the silhouettes of girls dancing in the nude, the sumo wrestlers ramming their heads with all their might and the volcano set which is in reality Blofeld s secret hideout That is nearly about all that I liked about the film It was no patch on the book Besides, I did not find the Japanese heroine, Mie Hama, to be attractive or sexy at all, especially after having watched beautiful Bond heroines like Ursula Andress Dr No , Daniela Bianchi From Russia With Love , Claudine Auger Thunderball and Honor Blackman who starred in Goldfinger and remains my favourite to this day