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Saw the flick on opening weekend. Loved it. As a 40-year-old Bond fan, I spent my early teen years thinking that Roger Moore, the then-current Bond, was the coolest. That lasted for longer than I'd probably like to admit, but I discovered the original novels around the same time I had the opportunity to own copies of the Connery Bonds on tape, and then LaserDisc. Connery replaced Moore for best movie Bond, but my favorite 007 was the one who was in the books. Subsequent actors have all been measured against Moore and Connery, but not until Casino Royale did I feel comfortable comparing a Bond actor to Fleming's spy. Did I mention that I loved this movie?

In the recent past, I'd leave a Bond movie and come home and fire up the DVD player and watch "You Only Live Twice" or "Diamond Are Forever" to remind myself how neat the series had been. This time, I had the urge to come home and re-read the original novel. Unfortunately, my copy of the book is in a box in the basement of parents' house in Leonia, NJ.

So I have a question for someone with a copy of the book in their library:

I know that many of the plot details came from the book, down to Bond's drink invention and even the

Spoiler:

"The bitch is dead."

line. But I can't remember how the book ended.

Spoiler:

The end of the movie when Bond tracked down Mr White seemed tacked on, almost like the opening sequence of the next movie. Was it in the book? Did it go further?