About this title: When Ernst Stavro Blofeld threatens global safety, James Bond must save the world, save his country, and as he pledged, save the Queen.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780451137074ISBN:0451137078
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Pages & cover tanned with age. Cover is soiled, creased at spine with no tears. SYNOPSIS: The superlative thriller that pits secret agent James Bond once more against SPECTRE's archfiend Blofeld, architect of a nefarious scheme to destroy the free world. the thriller in which 007 falls in love with the lovely Tracy, daughter of Marc-Ange Draco..." read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1963
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Wear to edges of soft cover. Page tanning from age. Ninth Printing. Taning to white cover. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: New American Library
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good. No Jacket. Text is free of markings, pages are tanning. binding is tight, corners and edges lightly worn. bottom os some pages folded, back cover slightly sticky. read more
""On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was my first James Bond book, and it was exactly what I had wanted it to be: fast-paced, reasonably well-written, and enjoyable overall. Bond, as a character, was a bit more introspective than I had expected he'd be, and while the book was a touch misogynistic, it wasn't as terribly so as I had feared going in. While the book met my expectations, it never really went beyond them, thus the three-star rating. I'll probably read more Bond books, as this one was fun, but can't see myself becoming a huge Ian Fleming fan."
"Over the summer I re-read all of the Ian Fleming James Bond books in order of their publication date(don't read any of the junk by others who followed Fleming after he died). Mostly I re-read the books because the re-issue paper-backs had such cool covers. The books are a one day read and absolutely a hoot."
"One thing that strikes me on rereading the original Bond books is how vulnerable Bond is. Far from the efficient Superman of the films, he invariably gets roughed up by the villians, often ending up in the hospital. True, he is ruthless and recklessly courageous (why we love him!), but when not in the thick of battle, he has his self-doubts, his regrets and awkward moments, and in some dialogue comes across as (Dare I say?) a bit of a pansy? Well, maybe that's just his British manners.
In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, he is at his most emotionally fragile, feeling guilty over his string of empty love affairs, falling for a woman and asking her to marry him. But I won't spoil the ending...
Suspenseful, fast-paced and emiently-readable, like all the Fleming books."
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