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3.45 AVERAGE
3.45 AVERAGE
I enjoyed this a lot. It was a nice break from all the books I'm reading for class.
What happens when you enlist a Chav into the Secret Service? Fun book with a unique take on the spy story. It could have been longer and still been interesting. Worth a read.
It's bad. All you do is just think of how better the movie was.
Delightfully silly yet an action packed spy thriller, just like the film. This one is a winner!
More like a 3.5 but I bumped it up since the glaring flaws is a poor editing job. A shame the celebrity cameo thing didn't happen in the film.
like The Invisibles, reimagined for Daily Mail readers and stripped of all imagination. Derivative, reactionary bollocks
I don't see The Secret Service as a spy thriller story but as a YA coming of age story. Well, Millar's style of coming of age. It is the good point of start. There are other secret agent parodies with children or teenagers as main protagonist. There is similar theme with XXX movies that set adult rebellious adults as USA secret agents. But this book takes a further step, a delinquent British Secret Service agent.
I am not impressed with the antagonists, the standard secret organization. They are dangerous (a mad visionary leader with high tech, goons that properly trained), but somehow pathetic.
The lack of details in the plot are suitable for children. The bloody violence scenes are not. The jokes are for older generations. So, I am confused... what is the target market of this book?
I am not impressed with the antagonists, the standard secret organization. They are dangerous (a mad visionary leader with high tech, goons that properly trained), but somehow pathetic.
The lack of details in the plot are suitable for children. The bloody violence scenes are not. The jokes are for older generations
Spoiler
by mentioning Doctor Who, Star Trek, Star Wars series. You could guess some of anonymous kidnapped actors are not for teenagers of 2010s
I loved this comic a lot!
I bought it and began reading it because i love the movie. I'm really happy that i got to read it.
But don't think of the movie when you are reading it. Because they are nothing alike. Like it's only a few key points that are the same, else it's totally different. The people, the process, the places and a lot of other things.
But that doesn't make it bad. In some way it made it better, because that way we got two different stories.
So i would recommend reading it. Both if you have seen the movie or not. 😊
I bought it and began reading it because i love the movie. I'm really happy that i got to read it.
But don't think of the movie when you are reading it. Because they are nothing alike. Like it's only a few key points that are the same, else it's totally different. The people, the process, the places and a lot of other things.
But that doesn't make it bad. In some way it made it better, because that way we got two different stories.
So i would recommend reading it. Both if you have seen the movie or not. 😊
It occurs to me that this is the second book about a school for secret operatives that I've read recently. The other was Deadly Class, and I would say this book suffers somewhat from comparison.
What's neat about fictional specialized private school stories is that it's basically a way to do complex interpersonal politics stories with more tension, since teens naturally bring overheated emotions and hormones into the mix. Imagine how nuts Game of Thrones or Dune would be with nothing but frustrated teenagers.
And Kingsman largely wastes this potential. We get the setup, with a street thug who's a diamond in the rough getting a shot at spy school, but it seems like Millar gets bored with this fairly quickly. Instead, it becomes James Bond Jr., with the protagonist following his uncle into a evil scheme that seems a bit to nerdy for me to take seriously.
For someone who delights in transgressive touches, I find it interesting that he actually seems to have somewhat of a conservative bend in his writing. There's a suggestion of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps here, which I've always found to be a very apt phrase, since you can not easily use your own body, especially the part of yourself closest to the ground, to hoist yourself up. It's almost like Baron Munchausen pulling himself out of the water by his ponytail.
Millar stories seem to come in varying levels of poignant, and Kingsman definitely falls more into the screwing around end of his spectrum. While it was entertaining, a focus on the school struggles would have held my interest better than a fairly tossed-off mission to defeat a zany millionaire.
What's neat about fictional specialized private school stories is that it's basically a way to do complex interpersonal politics stories with more tension, since teens naturally bring overheated emotions and hormones into the mix. Imagine how nuts Game of Thrones or Dune would be with nothing but frustrated teenagers.
And Kingsman largely wastes this potential. We get the setup, with a street thug who's a diamond in the rough getting a shot at spy school, but it seems like Millar gets bored with this fairly quickly. Instead, it becomes James Bond Jr., with the protagonist following his uncle into a evil scheme that seems a bit to nerdy for me to take seriously.
For someone who delights in transgressive touches, I find it interesting that he actually seems to have somewhat of a conservative bend in his writing. There's a suggestion of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps here, which I've always found to be a very apt phrase, since you can not easily use your own body, especially the part of yourself closest to the ground, to hoist yourself up. It's almost like Baron Munchausen pulling himself out of the water by his ponytail.
Millar stories seem to come in varying levels of poignant, and Kingsman definitely falls more into the screwing around end of his spectrum. While it was entertaining, a focus on the school struggles would have held my interest better than a fairly tossed-off mission to defeat a zany millionaire.