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by Ian Fleming (Author) "Punctually at six o'clock the sun set with a last yellow flash behind the Blue Mountains, a wave of violet shadow poured down Richmond Road,..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (Sep 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0142002038
  • ISBN-13: 978-0142002032
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dr Yes!, 10 Mar 2009
By Binro The Heretic "mattieboyz" (Hillsborough, Sheffield) - See all my reviews
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Ian Fleming's dynamic spy story may not have been his first James Bond novel (that honour goes to Casino Royale) but it was the first to be filmed, and as such it has remained in the public consciousness as 007's first real adventure. The daddy of all super-villains, Dr Julius No, is holed-up in his lair on Crab Key, a small island in the Caribbean. Bond is despatched by his boss `M' to the Caribbean, to investigate the disappearance of the its Secret Service representative, a friend of 007's, whose mysterious death may well be linked to Dr No's secret operations on Crab Key. The deadly game that No forces Bond to play, is vividly brought to life and styled so as to be extremely thrilling for the reader, whilst the soon-to-be template for all Bond girls - the exotically delicious `Honey Ryder' - adds spice to an adventure that is already excitingly different.
Fleming's genius lay in his ability to write simply, but with an almost fetishistic attention to detail; the reader experiences a delicious thrill when Bond lights another cigarette or describes the minutiae of his daily routine. It is this ability to prompt such a vicarious response in the reader that lifts Fleming's novels from their pulpy origins, and which has given them their longevity and their status' as classic slices of disposable fiction.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!, 13 Jul 2007
By S. Jeffery "simon the filmmaker" (Bedford, UK) - See all my reviews
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Having read 6 of Fleming's Bond novels as well as the For Your Eyes Only short story collection, I can safely say that Dr No is my favourite so far!

It's a brilliantly written, endlessly compelling adventure.

Buy it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Simple and exciting installment in the Bond series, 23 Sep 2007
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Brilliant installment in the James Bond series. Simple, fast-paced and exctiting - a great adventure story.

If you look too closely, though, there's a lot to pick it up on:

On pg 17 there is an entirely wrong use of the adverb 'hardly' - but surely Fleming's editor should have picked this up
Inconsistent spelling, i.e. pg 169 - again, the editor should have picked this up
On page 154 a shark is classified as a reptile (when obviously it is a type of insect)
Fleming (through Bond) labels lots of girls 'Chinese' after Bond has just seen them, though how Bond can tell this is a mystery (he labels them before he has even spoken to them) - how does he know they are not Japanese or Taiwanese for example?
Fleming gets very mixed up over Chinese and Japanese traditional dress - he constantly calls kimonos Chinese, for example. It's not a case of Bond getting mixed up - the Chinese characters themselves get mixed up. Maybe Fleming could have done a bit more research?
This book exhibits the most perfect example of the villain wining and dining his nemesis before creating an elaborately-contrived death for him which he doesn't actually observe himself - all the stuff that Austin Powers lampoons.

Still, these are minor points. The film, probably far more familiar to most people, follows the book closely (except there is no silly nuclear business in the book, and no silly giant octopus bit in the film).

This is thoroughly engrossing, hard-to-put-down stuff.
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