![]() ![]() Weaknesses: Race is a problem for Fleming. He lives to please M and save England-cards, women, and caviar are the bread and water that makes those his primary directives possible. His taste is impeccable, but is also shadowed from his orphaned, public-school upbringing. ![]() Compared to the screen Bonds, Fleming Bond enjoys the good life, but isn’t a playboy. The Bond of the novels is unshakeably loyal, quietly debonair, and able to withstand tremendous pain. When he takes a wrong turn, there’s very little time to recover.Īnd while Fleming was great with action and procedure, his greatest creation is Bond himself. ![]() When he is in the groove, the James Bond books fly by like an Aston Martin on a winding French road. Fleming, writing at this pace, can be both sloppy and suspenseful. He wrote each of the novels while on his annual three-month vacation from his newspaper job in London. Like their cinematic counterparts, they vary wildly in quality the best of them are fantastic and the worst of them range from being a chore to being more than a little offensive.įleming wrote a novel a year starting in 1953 (here are all of them in order). So, this summer I decided to read all of the original Ian Fleming Bond novels. As a fan of the movies (especially the Connery and Craig iterations), I’d always wondered what the James Bond books were like. ![]()
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