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"Breaking the Ice" - Your views on John Gardner's Icebreaker (1983)?
As there's never been a specific thread here on John Gardner's third James Bond continuation novel Icebreaker (1983) I thought that I would remedy this fact and start a thread where we can discuss,...
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This was the first Gardner book that I read around 1986 or 87. I haven't read it again since, but it's my favorite Gardner Bond though the details are now fuzzy. I enjoyed the Neo-Nazi plot and the...
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It is also one of my favourite Gardner stories. I love the atmospheric writing. It is probably the best at placing you at the scene and the part where the Saab is being stalked by the ice-ploughs is...
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Although I can't remember many of the specifics as it has been some time since I read it, I would have to say that Icebreaker is my favourite Gardner novel(and probably my favourite continuation novel...
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Golrush007 wrote:I recall that in the James Bond Bedside Companion Raymond Benson was quite critical of Icebreaker and called it a significant step down from the first two novels, and perhaps if I was...
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Icebreaker for me was better than Licence Renewed but not as good asFor Special Services ( which read like a script for an unmade Film) It has many good points, and the story is interesting and...
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Agreed, there is much to enjoy but the whole double/triple agent thing was overplayed and weakened the book- still his next one wasn't bad and the one after one of his best.
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I liked it when I read it back in the 90s. I'll probably read those books again one day. I recall a topic about this book somewhere here. I mentioned liking the description of one of the bond girls at...
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Does anyone concur on this part of the OP?:The NSAA may have been based on this similarly-titled Neo-Nazi political party of the early 1980s in Britain which also attacked Communists and was involved...
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It could have been a "Role model" for Gardner's organisation, although. These Nazi groups alwaysSeem to be around. Sometimes gaining in popularity ( in certain areas) then falling into theBackground...
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It's an interesting article.I notice the article mentions numerous far-right groups attaining some degree of notoriety in the early eighties. I was a teenager then and we were only really aware of the...
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That was the book that broke the camel's back. Very good and atmospheric, but the ending when good guys were suddenly revealed as bad guys and then back to good guys and bad guys were all along good...
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"Breaking the Ice" - Your views on John Gardner's Icebreaker (1983)?
As there's never been a specific thread here on John Gardner's third James Bond continuation novel Icebreaker (1983) I thought that I would remedy this fact and start a thread where we can discuss,...
View ArticleRe: "Breaking the Ice" - Your views on John Gardner's Icebreaker (1983)?
This was the first Gardner book that I read around 1986 or 87. I haven't read it again since, but it's my favorite Gardner Bond though the details are now fuzzy. I enjoyed the Neo-Nazi plot and the...
View ArticleRe: "Breaking the Ice" - Your views on John Gardner's Icebreaker (1983)?
It is also one of my favourite Gardner stories. I love the atmospheric writing. It is probably the best at placing you at the scene and the part where the Saab is being stalked by the ice-ploughs is...
View ArticleRe: "Breaking the Ice" - Your views on John Gardner's Icebreaker (1983)?
Although I can't remember many of the specifics as it has been some time since I read it, I would have to say that Icebreaker is my favourite Gardner novel(and probably my favourite continuation novel...
View ArticleRe: "Breaking the Ice" - Your views on John Gardner's Icebreaker (1983)?
Golrush007 wrote:I recall that in the James Bond Bedside Companion Raymond Benson was quite critical of Icebreaker and called it a significant step down from the first two novels, and perhaps if I was...
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Re: "Breaking the Ice" - Your views on John Gardner's Icebreaker (1983)?
Icebreaker for me was better than Licence Renewed but not as good asFor Special Services ( which read like a script for an unmade Film) It has many good points, and the story is interesting and...
View ArticleRe: "Breaking the Ice" - Your views on John Gardner's Icebreaker (1983)?
Agreed, there is much to enjoy but the whole double/triple agent thing was overplayed and weakened the book- still his next one wasn't bad and the one after one of his best.
View ArticleRe: "Breaking the Ice" - Your views on John Gardner's Icebreaker (1983)?
I liked it when I read it back in the 90s. I'll probably read those books again one day. I recall a topic about this book somewhere here. I mentioned liking the description of one of the bond girls at...
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