| Die Another Day (Movie Tie-In) (James Bond 007 (Berkley Boulevard)) | 
 enlarge | Author: Raymond Benson
Publisher: Berkley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 178231
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0425189635
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780425189634
ASIN: 0425189635
Publication Date: November 2002
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Product Description
Agent 007 lives-to die another day-in the ultra-cool new motion picture from Metro Goldwyn Meyer. Also stars John Cleese and Judi Dench, and features a new Bond song from Madonna.
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 Die Another Day Review May 16, 2009
Die Another Day was a great Bond novel. It fell exactly into place of the movie and the deleted scenes that are not shown in the film are no doubt explained in Benson's Die Another Day novel. The pages flew with colors and action. Great book and an awesome read for Brosnan's last outing as James Bond. We'll miss ya Pierce!
 Extremely disappointing. August 17, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
After a long string of highly successful Bond novels, this is Benson's last one. Having just read it, I can see why.
In addition to Benson's masterful Bond novels, I have always enjoyed his novelizations of the movies, as they have given the character extra depth, and turned sometimes lightweight movie scenes into deeply absorbing writing. His Bond feels far more real than the movies, while retaining the excitement, action and fun.
Admittedly, he had a pretty dumb screenplay to work with here (invisible cars, anyone?), but he hasn't even tried to write a book. This feels more like a notebook of scene directions than a story, and simply tells you everything Bond does without adding anything, i.e. "Bond ran across the corridor. He kicked open the door. He ran down the stairs. He shot his gun"... there are paragraphs of this stuff. No attempt to make it into a novel.
I think he just put the movie on TV, scribbled down everything he saw onscreen, handed in this literal description, took his paycheck and ran.
A sad ending to a great career writing Bond novels. Don't bother with this one.
A TON BETTER THAN THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!! June 16, 2004
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is very good!!! It has a lot of action and a lot of suspense. I read the book before i bought the movie and I was expecting the movie to be great because the book was soo good. But after I saw the movie I didn't like it, it was very boring. Unlike the movie the book was great all the way through!! So then I liked the book even better. It is worth buying for sure!! So if you liked the movie I am sure you will love the book, and if you didn't like the movie you will still probally like the book!! So this book is a must buy for all James Bond fans!!!!!
 Not All that Original but Not Bad March 10, 2004
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The basic premise of the book was already written by Ian Fleming. Benson does a good job but I could not help think he owed much of this to Fleming. It is a good effort and a good read just the same.
This is Moonraker, not original stuff. July 24, 2003
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Yes, I know they already made a film of "Moonraker" which had basically nothing to do with the book, so they're free to use plot elements. But it's almost shameless to use this many plot elements. A space weapon (only it's called "Icarus" instead of "Moonraker"), a "zero-to-hero" public persona for the villain (as well as his being honored by the Queen and not at all what he seems), the villain's blonde secretary who's a double (British S.S. and his secretary), a showdown at a club...I could go on and on. Why waste $$$ on this novelization when you could pick up Ian Fleming's original "Moonraker" at a library or used book store? It's much better, plus you get to see a "Bond Girl" who thinks he's stupid (at least at first, but then SHE dumps HIM). How rare is that!?
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