- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Allen Lane; First Impression edition (16 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0713994754
- ISBN-13: 978-0713994759
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 16.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 617,532 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book celebrates the greatest of all postwar British fictional icons. For too long the Bond films have overshadowed their literary source - the bizarre, baroque world of Ian Fleming. Full rein is given in this anthology to Fleming's wonderful creations - the deranged villains, their horrifying associates and their surreal lairs; from Dr. No's guano island to Blofeld's Garden of Death. Full attention to is paid to the girls, cars, food, drink and cigarettes consumed by the books' brutal, resourceful hero. From the first Bond novel, "Casino Royale" to the last to be fully finished, "You Only Live Twice", there is an extraordinary zest and ingenuity to Fleming's imagination and "My Name's Bond..." allows readers to see perhaps as never before the author's remarkable abilities. He was, above all, a creator of great set pieces and it is these that are surely at the root of the films' great and lasting success.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book rightly praises the James Bond books written by Ian Fleming in the 50s and 60s, and offers an insight into how he came up with such brilliant ideas, and how James Bond became a fictional hero.
The films are great, but the books are more plausable and tougher, so there's no better accompniament than this book. This is the real Bond; this is the right book!
The films are great, but the books are more plausable and tougher, so there's no better accompniament than this book. This is the real Bond; this is the right book!
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Totally unnecessary, thoroughly disposable
21 Mar 2005
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was quite displeased with this book. Please, save your money, it's not worth it at all. All it does is to quote from all 14 Fleming's amazing novels, so you would be much better off reading the original novels than reading this book.
This book, by no means, will add to knowledge regarding Bond universe, so, if you want to know more about James Bond, if you are really interested in getting deeper into it, and know more about both the literary and the screen hero, buy JAMES BOND - THE LEGACY, written by Bruce Scivalli, the same one who's responsible in putting the extras on the DVDs together. Legacy is supperbly written, a true jewel, it encompass every aspect of the 20 pictures and more, much more.
I gave one star just because I wasn't able to give zero.
This book, by no means, will add to knowledge regarding Bond universe, so, if you want to know more about James Bond, if you are really interested in getting deeper into it, and know more about both the literary and the screen hero, buy JAMES BOND - THE LEGACY, written by Bruce Scivalli, the same one who's responsible in putting the extras on the DVDs together. Legacy is supperbly written, a true jewel, it encompass every aspect of the 20 pictures and more, much more.
I gave one star just because I wasn't able to give zero.
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