Author: Ian Fleming
Narrator: Simon Vance
Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2006
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Espionage
Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London in 1908. His first job was at Reuters news agency, after which he worked briefly as a stockbroker before working in Naval Intelligence during World War Two. His first novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 and was an instant success. Fleming went on to write thirteen other Bond books as well as two works of nonfiction and the children’s classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Bond books have earned praise from figures such as Raymond Chandler, who called Fleming “the most forceful and driving writer of thrillers in England†and President Kennedy, who named From Russia with Love as one of his favorite books. The books inspired a hugely successful series of film adaptations that began in 1962 with the release of Dr. No. He was married to Ann O'Neill, with whom he had a son, Caspar. He died in 1964.
WHAT IS THIS?! Can something be amazing and batshit? I think so. In the last book, Diamonds Are Forever, it seemed as though Bond was going soft. His little heart was growing just like The Grinch as he and Tiffany Case sauntered off into the sunset. And I guess by extension, I thought Ian Fleming was......more
What I learned from this book (in no particular order): 1. The ideal Soviet master assassin is a man who is: a. the offspring of a German wrestler and a Southern Irish hooker; b. extremely muscular and hairy; c. possessed of a high threshold for pain; d. manic during the full moon; and e. asexual (“Sexu......more
This is hands down the best James Bond book and it was turned into the best James Bond movie. I have yet to read all the books, but I have read a fair amount so I think it is okay for me to have the opinion that this is the best! I read this twice and loved it both times. The second time I read it wa......more
If this is love then I’d hate to see the Russian idea of hate. The Soviets have suffered several espionage losses so they decide to run an elaborate operation in which they’ll kill British agent James Bond in such a way that will embarrass all of English intelligence. The two big pieces of cheese in......more