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| World Is Not Enough | 
 enlarge | Author: Raymond Benson
Publisher: Econo-Clad Books
Category: Book
Buy Collectible: $157.77
Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 7494524
Media: Library Binding
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.4 x 1
ISBN: 0613226569
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780613226561
ASIN: 0613226569
Publication Date: September 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Greed, revenge, world domination through the power of oil, high-tech
terrorism... Only some of the ingredients of this latest 007 adventure which
begins outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, continues with a
spectacular high-speed boat chase up the Thames and progresses through the highlands of Scotland before Bond faces an avalanche in the Caucasus
Mountains and a potential nuclear explosion in Turkey.
Sir Robert King, a wealthy oil tycoon, is murdered in an unprecedented
bombing at MI6's London headquarters. M takes the attack personally and
sends James Bond to protect King's beautiful and fiery daughter Elektra in
Turkey. For the man responsible for the bombing is 'Renard', a cruel and
cunning terrorist who once attempted to kidnap Elektra King and hold her to
ransom.
With nuclear weapons expert Dr. Chrismas Jones at his side, Bond travels to
the Caspian Sea and Istanbul where a former enemy becomes a formidable ally before the final dramatic confrontation in the claustrophobic confines of a nuclear submarine beneath the surface of the Bosporus.
The World is Not Enough takes James Bond to new levels of danger, intrigue and non-stop action.
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 An audiobook review November 11, 2006
I never quite got around to seeing this Bond flick. I am a casual fan, meaning that I eventually get around to seeing them, but not usually in the theater. I ran across this audiobook version and figured I'd kill two birds with one stone - liven up my long commute with some entertainment and cross this Bond story off of my list.
This version is read by John Kenneth. Kenneth was confronted with a tough choice - how does he read Bond? Does his version of Bond sound like Connery? Dalton? Moore? Who? Kenneth's voice for Bond is unique and unforced, which cannot be said of some of the other voics he uses. At times, Kenneth presents the listener with a variety of increasingly-shrill British voices that sound more like the soundtrack of a Monty Python skit rather than a more serious presentation.
Being free of the movie format does offer the author, Raymond Benson, a bit of freedom and he uses it in two interesting ways:
#1 - the amount of sexual detail. Benson goes into graphic detail with Bond's sexual adventures. This is not in keeping with the movies which generally feature a wink and a nod and a female voice purring, "Oh, James!" as the camera fades to black. This is a trademark of the series, just as much as "Bond. James Bond" and "Shaken - not stirred" are and I think it should have been given more respect.
#2 - Benson explores the twisted background of a Bond arch-enemy rather than limiting his background to the bare oral briefing that Bond receives when he is assigned his mission. We learn all about the childhood of Renard, a terrorist bent on anarchistic chaos. I found that to be an interesting and welcome addition to the book.
Interestingly, this James Bond audiobook was directed by a man named Jim Bond!
Final grade for the audiobook version: C+
 One of the Best March 9, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read the novelization of "Tomorrow Never Dies" before reading this. The thing I noticed with Benson is that in his novelizations he writes in third-person omniscent, allowing the reader to not only visualize everything, but know what the characters are thinking, which can obviously not be done in the movies. I had some of the movie before reading the book. After I read the book, however, I saw the movie and it made a lot more sense.
Its ok January 9, 2002
I saw the movie before i read the book so I knew everything that would happen but Benson does do an excellent job of explaining things!
 The Film Required a Novel or perhaps a Better Screenplay September 24, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Raymond Benson's second novel based on a screenplay is not entirely disappointing. It perhaps lacks the detail and depth of character evident in his "Tomorrow Never Dies" that was a top-notch adaptation of the screenplay. And that is what the cinematic THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH truly needed. THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH atypically required a book to make sense of the confusing plot mixing the King family with Swiss Bankers, terrorists and British intelligence. In retrospect there are many intriguing elements of the film that somehow go undeveloped. The film's structure is more character based than driven by plot. Unfortunately, there was a great opportunity to delve deeper into the psyche of the central characters, but that opportunity went by the wayside. On a more practical note, it seemed rather incongruous to have M go out into the "field" and end up a captive behind bars in a seaside estate. This is completely out of character for the resourceful and worldly M characterized in TOMORROW NEVER DIES. The problem here is actually with the cinematic version of THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH and not Raymond Benson's novel.
#1 book June 12, 2000
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The world is not enough is the #1 book if you like action , excitment, and adventure its a book based on the 19th bond movie if you like bond you will like this!
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