The Spy Who Loved Me
by Ian Fleming · first published 1962
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Vivienne Michel, a precocious French Canadian raised in the United Kingdom, seems a foreigner in every land. With only a supercharged Vespa and a handful of American dollars, she travels down winding roads into the pine forests of the Adirondacks. After stopping at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court and being coerced into caretaking at the vacant motel for the night, Viv opens the door to two armed mobsters and realizes being a woman alone is no easy task. But when a third stranger shows—a confident Englishman with a keen sense for sizing things up—the tables are turned. Still reeling in the wake
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"The Spy Who Loved Me" was the shortest of Fleming's works that I read. But given that, I agree with the author of the article that many of the Bond books had serious failings. I read "Live and Let Die" and was embarrassed…
on “James Bond Unmasked (1968)” ↗…Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming - From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming - Dr No by Ian Fleming - Goldfinger by Ian Fleming - For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming - Thunderball by Ian Fleming - The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming - On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming - You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming - The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Anna Karenina…
on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗…read this but this is rarely the case (and in those situations the item will actually almost always have a higher value to the individual increasing the price they're willing to pay). If I look at the Spy Who Loved Me and I find that it's £5.25 on Amazon and I think that's not a good price, I could easily see that I could get Casino Royale for £4.35. If I think that's too expensive it would take me about 30 seconds…
on “Memo To Ian Fleming’s Heirs” ↗Only the first, Casino Royale, is close to realistic. Some of the short stories also seem realistic, as does The Spy Who Loved Me. The later books seem more fanciful.
on “The Failures That Made Ian Fleming” ↗The one I remember best was "The Spy Who Loved Me", where the plot of the novel is about a woman in a cabin or something and the relation to the movie is... Zero. But it wasn't the plots that I thought were worse, but the writing itself.
on “Ian Fleming Explains How to Write a Thriller” ↗