Live and Let Die

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Thomas, Rebecca (19 November 1999). "The many faces of Bond". BBC. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015 . Retrieved 28 March 2015. Kroon, Richard W. (2014). A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-5740-3. Edit: December 19, 2018 This novel is really two and a half stars, not three, but Goodreads doesn't let me give half stars. I also appreciate the absolutely ridiculous parts of this book like when Bond straight up fights an octopus. Now that is something I wish was in the “Live and Let Die” movie (1973) with my main dude Roger Moore! If you saw the movie, then you know that Bond finding an octopus isn’t that crazy.

Yet another great final chapter line on p241. ‘The first tears since his childhood came into James Bond’s blue-grey eyes and ran down his cheeks into the bloodstained sea.’ Bond has a week’s training regime in Jamaica which made me smile. ‘By the end of the week, Bond was sunburned and hard. He had cut his cigarettes down to ten a day and had not had a single drink.. Spartan, Bond. Spartan. He really does mean business.

There are moments of great luxury in the life of a secret agent. There are assignments on which he is required to act the part of a very rich man; occasions when he takes refuge in good living to efface the memory of danger and the shadow of death; and times when, as was now the case, he is a guest in the territory of an allied Secret Service. From the moment the BOAC Stratocruiser taxied up to the International Air Terminal at Idlewild, James Bond was treated like royalty.

The James Bond Films – 2006 onwards". BBC. Archived from the original on 15 July 2023 . Retrieved 1 April 2015. Solitaire called for him. The room smelled of Balmain's "Vent Vert". She was leaning on her elbow and looking down at him from the upper berth. SPOILER – It’s impressive and sensible, but still, when you read it, it does feel cold when Bond plans to drown Solitaire first and then use her dead body weight to drown himself, before being eaten alive. Hewitt, Leah D. (1992). Autobiographical Tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Condä. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-7258-3. I’ll say again, so much of these books is just detailing exactly what Bond has to eat and drink. Makes me very hungry.Eco, Umberto (2009). "The Narrative Structure of Ian Fleming". In Lindner, Christoph (ed.). The James Bond Phenomenon: a Critical Reader. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-6541-5. Bond has a nightmare and ‘whimpered and sweated in his sleep.’ No, I’m sorry, Bond does not whimper. Mr. Big is the whole reason that Bond has flown to America. Gold coins, Rose Noble of Edward IV, have been surfacing from the pirate Henry “Bloody” Morgan’s treasure that was never found and by rights belongs to the British government. They have traced it to Mr. Big’s operation and agents have disappeared so it is time for 007 to be sent to find the pipeline for the treasure and if need be put a kibosh on Mr. Big’s organization. Fleming takes us from London, to NY, to Florida, and for the final meeting between Mr. Big and Bond to the island of Jamaica. Mr. Big sees himself as a trailblazer and it wouldn’t be a Bond if the villain didn’t give a speech.