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		<title>On breaking convention</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished On Her Majesty&#8217;s Secret Service on the train into the city. The end of the book is so sudden and disarming that I&#8217;m not quite sure if I]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just finished <em>On Her Majesty&#8217;s Secret Service</em> on the train into the city. The end of the book is so sudden and disarming that I&#8217;m not quite sure if I</p>
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		<title>On continuing (James Bond) education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my last 007 related post, I&#8217;ve finished two more books and am drawing a third to a close: Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me and On Her Majesty&#8217;s Secret Service. These make up an interesting sandwich of books in that the two on the ends, TB and OHMSS, both deal with SPECTRE and their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since my last 007 related post, I&#8217;ve finished two more books and am drawing a third to a close: <em>Thunderball</em>, <em>The Spy Who Loved Me</em> and <em>On Her Majesty&#8217;s Secret Service</em>. These make up an interesting sandwich of books in that the two on the ends, <em>TB</em> and <em>OHMSS</em>, both deal with SPECTRE and their sweeping, much-well-too-thought-out schemes of destruction for the United Kingdom. <em>TSWLM</em>, on the other hand, is a book about being a woman, literally.</p>
<p>The entire book is written from the perspective of the Bond Girl, with the first third of the narrative describing, in Fleming&#8217;s patented TOO-MUCH-INFORMATION-O-VISION, the entire life circumstance of this girl coming to this motel deep in the Adirondacks. The action takes place over the course of just one night. It&#8217;s a pretty good story, the villain isn&#8217;t super-outlandish (although extremely small-time compared to the likes of the SPECTRE stories that surround it) and Bond&#8217;s involvement in the plot is described as much of an accident. I will update my villain ridiculousness over time chart once I finish the next book.</p>
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