books by Ian Fleming (thunderball goldfinger daylights)

books by Ian Fleming

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond Novels)

14 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003

Bond in Love
Among the titles of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, I'd have to say that On Her Majesty's Secret Service is my least favorite, with neither the brevity of a Dr. No or Goldfinger nor the plot descriptive nature of The Man with the Golden Gun or From Russia with Love. Even if I dislike the title, however, this is one of Fleming's best Bond books. The story opens around a year after the events ...

Doctor No (James Bond Novels)

40 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002

Fleming's most dangerous game
Doctor No starts off weakly but finishes strong. Picking up a few weeks after the conclusion of From Russia with Love, Doctor No finds Bond just returning from a long stay in hospital after being poisoned. M is determined to keep Bond out of strenuous duty, so he sends him on a presumably easy mission to investigate the disappearance of British Intelligence's Jamaican operator. And by the way, M ...

Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories (James Bond 007)

10 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008

BOND IN SHORT
This collection of Ian Fleming short stories is a must have for any Bond fan. I have been discovering Fleming since the release of the film "Casino Royale" and have found his books to be not only thrilling but also very well written. His prose is as lean, hard and ruthless as James Bond himself. He is a joy to read. Here in "Quantum of Solace" I was not disappointed. All the stories are ...

Live and Let Die (James Bond Novels)

24 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003

Pure Bond
The Bond books are always fun and easy to read. They appeal to the adventure, gadget, and sex side to all men. It also often amazes me that women are interested in watching the movies, but I have yet to find a woman reader of the Fleming books. This book deals with Voodoo but is greatly aged when talking about gang activity and black culture. So, don't be surprised by a few nasty words here ...

Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond Novels)

42 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002

Bond does Vegas
One of the big movies of recent times was Blood Diamonds, a grim action movie dealing with conflict diamonds, those mined in certain African countries in states of civil war. A few years before that, the final Pierce-Brosnan-as-James-Bond movie, Die Another Day also dealt with these diamonds. Ian Fleming had first introduced Bond fans to the African diamond trade much earlier, however, in 1956 ...

Casino Royale (James Bond Novels)

130 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002

BOND BEGINS
It's always interesting reading the first book dealing with a popular character, whether it be Conan, Tarzan or Sherlock Holmes. The same is true with James Bond. Two things strike me as really fascinating about this book. First of all, the first half of the book deals with the card game of baccarat, which hardly sounds like an action-packed setting. Yet Ian Fleming did a good job of ...

Goldfinger (James Bond Novels)

26 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002

Bond and the Man of Gold
Of the fourteen James Bond books written by Ian Fleming, Goldfinger is the seventh, and when I finished it, I'd reached the halfway point in the series. With the previous book, Dr. No, we got the first true Bond villain, the man with truly megalomaniacal plans that is typical of most of the movies. In Goldfinger, we get another such villain, plus a new first: the first villain's sidekick. ...

Moonraker (James Bond Novels)

62 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002

Solid-fuel thrills
While I always knew that many films of the James Bond series drifted into camp and outright cheesiness, I never realized how much of a disservice some of them did to the source material until I read the novels. And wow--Moonraker in particular, while one of the better '70s entries in the film series, bears no relation to the gritty homeland security thriller written by Ian Fleming. The titular ...

The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle Cookbook: Stop Diabetes with an Easy-to-Follow Plant-Based, Carb-Counting Diet

4 reviews
Bonnie House, Diana Fleming, ...

Perigee Trade, 2008

This plan works for ANYONE who wants to get healthy, not just diabetics!
A cookbook with quick-and-easy vegetarian meals that really satisfy and keep me healthy! Spectacular, delicious recipes with easy to follow instructions. So well-written, it's as if it was made just for me. Also try The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle: Lifestyle Center of America's Complete Program to Stop Diabetes, Restore Health,and Build Natural Vitality

From Russia with Love (James Bond Novels)

58 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002

One of the best Bond novels
Ian Fleming's James Bond novels are certainly not the mixed bag that the films are, but some are certainly better than others. From Russia with Love is, along with Casino Royale and On Her Majesty's Secret Service, among the best. From Russia with Love starts off on a different foot than most of the other Bond novels. Bond himself doesn't appear until part two, 95 pages into the story. Until ...

Octopussy and The Living Daylights (James Bond Novels)

12 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004

Super Reader
Another Bond book that is a collection of shorter pieces, Octopussy, The Living Daylights and The Property of a Lady. The first story is about a villain, the second Bond is sent as a sniper to kill a female assassin, and in the third he investigates a double agent involved with selling a Carl Faberge egg. Octopussy and the Living Daylights : 01 Octopussy - Ian Fleming Octopussy and the Living ...

You Only Live Twice (James Bond Novels)

208 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003

Bond Again
Since 007 is back in action, under a powerful Daniel Craig, its nice to look to Ian Fleming books. In this adventure Bond is more vulnerable than ever, since his wife, Tracy, were killed by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Fleming give us once again a wonderful construction for 007 personality. Exploring the dark side of his creation, and a interesting oriental background.

James Bond: Polestar (James Bond (Graphic Novels))

1 review
Ian Fleming, Jim Lawrence

Titan Books, 2008

Bond, the comic strip...pretty darn cool!
North American comic strip fans have been cheated. The James Bond comic strip, which ran in England in the Daily Express, can now be found on American book shelves courtesy of Titan Books. What a run this strip had. From 1958 to at least 1983 (minus a couple of years), Bond was penned, by Ian Fleming, and Jim Lawrence. Many of the original novels can be found adapted into strip form, and ...

The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond Novels)

16 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004

The last of the Bond novels
They say that all good things must come to an end. In the case of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, that end is with The Man with the Golden Gun. After this, there would only be a short story collection (Octopussy & The Living Daylights) to wrap up the set. Posthumously released (and supposedly concluded by a ghost writer), this book is generally considered one of the weaker of the Bond books, ...

Thunderball (James Bond Novels)

26 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003

He Strikes Like Thunderball
Finished Ian Fleming's "Thunderball" during my lunch break earlier today. Got the above Centenary Edition hardback with the painted cover. This novel is one of Fleming's most action-packed with Bond going after Emilio Largo who was planning to blow up Miami with an atomic weapon. It is also the first part of the "Blofeld Trilogy" featuring SPECTRE. Bond doesn't really run into Blofeld in this ...

James Bond 007 Giftset

5 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin, 2004

Get it at Costco for $14
Okay, so I just picked this box set up at Costco for $14. There were plenty of them there and they are much cheaper than you can get here.

The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond Novels)

30 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003

Surprisingly great novel
When I found out that the content of this novel was entirely different from the content of the Moore flick, I decided to read the novel, and boy, am I glad I did. This is a moving, exciting, totally absorbing book, with terrific characterization and surprising tenderness. I couldn't have asked for a better "light" read, and I recommend it to just about anybody.

For Your Eyes Only (James Bond Novels)

25 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003

Nobody did it better than Fleming
All of Fleming's Bond novels, and most of his short stories, are such a relief to read in today's relativist, anti-patriotic, multi-cultural, male-bashing or emasculating culture. These novels (and also Mickey Spillane's) are my measure of what a cultural norm should be. They are such an antidote to the weepy, pseudo-introspective rubbish that passes for popular literature today.

Casino Royale (movie tie-in) (James Bond 007)

4 reviews
Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006

THE FIRST IN THE JAMES BOND SERIES
Now that Casino Royale has been released as a movie I decided to reread the book to see if it held my interest as several readings before, and yes it did. When Ian Fleming set pen to paper to write about things he knew well, having been involved during WWII with such matters, he tailored the figure of Bond on things he not only knew well but fashioned Bond after many things he, Fleming, spent ...

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

16 reviews
Ian Fleming

Random House Books for Young Readers, 2003

Yes, it is by THAT Ian Flemming!
A wonderful book. I loved it as a child, and going back to read it as an adult I realize that there are a lot of things that I missed. I remember my teacher reading it aloud in class--wonderful! The movie, although very nice, has only a superficial resemblance to the book. For one thing, it moves the time a generation or so back. For another, in the book both parents are alive, rather than ...