Awhile back I was wandering around Barnes and Noble after eating a great dinner at Mitchell’s Fish Market and I noticed that Penguin had released a new edition of all of the Ian Fleming bond novels.
I have always wanted to read some of the original bond books so I grabbed Casino Royale since I always like to start at the beginning. I also haven’t seen the movie yet, and whenever possible I like to read the book before the movie. I enjoyed the book, the Ian Fleming Bond is very different from the Bond you normally see in the movies. He is a little more chauvanistic and rude, and I don’t think you would ever see a Bond movie where Bond gets tortured the way he is tortured in the book. I can see some similarities between Fleming and Raymon Chandler, especially in the disposition of the protagonist. I enjoy Chandler’s writing style a little better than Fleming, but they are both great authors who have great characters.
I have about a 4 foot stack of books to read next, but after some of those I am going to pick up Live and Let Die, the next Bond book in the series.
-James
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