A warning to Bond fans -contains spoilers.
I'm a big Fleming fan and I've even collected all the books by the authors after him (Kingsly Amis wrote a good one, as did Sebastian Faulkes). I even have the John Gardners, crap as they are with the possible exception of Icebreaker.
As such, I had to buy the new Jeffrey Deaver novel. I say novel, I mean small county phone book of utter dross printed on the cheapest availble materials. The story is a dripping wet turd in a picnic hamper and about 200 pages too long for what it is. Turgid, slow, pointless and a 'twist' ending that rendered almost the whole book pointless.
Just to show how crap it is, here's a line from near the end about how the henchman was in love with his boss:
"His love for him had to remain buried, as hidden and dangerous as VS-90 land mine."
For fuck's sake...
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:24, 3 replies)

This doesn't surprise me in the least
I wasn't a fan of the Faulkes one to be honest.
He did a brilliant job of recreating Fleming's style, but the story seemed too fan-boy ish for my liking.

I'm not really a Fleming fan either.
Some are marvellous (Moonraker, From Russia with Love) but some are really hard going.
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:32, closed)

A couple on the shelf don't get much love,
but they're not just great stories, it's a window into a now long-dead world. Nearly 60 years since the first book and loads of people are hanging on the release of the new film.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:35, closed)

oh, come on.
what could be more romantic than a VS-90 land mine?
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 16:01, closed)