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EDIT: Eep, just realised that you meant a Bond book. Moonraker and Casino Royale are my favourite official ones, but Colonel Sun and Shatterhand are great too. My above choices still stand btw :P
I had a blast reading FRWL.
I'm a bit late but I would have advised Bourne to take the Bond biography. It's an excellent book. Almost as good as Fleming's novels and probably better than DAF which is my least favourite of the Fleming books.
The Film version is not that much different in that respect
Not sure how GF can be called boring.
The Miami passage is great. I like golf, so naturally the golf passage is fun, but I get if you don't like golf.
Agreed. And I'm not a big golfer but I still find the golf passage fun.
The plot absolutely falls to pieces when the story moves to the States but it's never boring.
And to address the thread title, get a Kindle and you can take them all with you!
Strange how many dog on this book.
Agreed, it's very enjoyable. I think the main cause of criticism is the plot problems in the final third - the idea that Goldfinger would employ a man who has twice cheated him out of money, stole his girlfriend and then followed him to Switzerland, trespassed on his property and was discovered with a loaded sniper rifle is a bit of a stretch. Thing is, Fleming's writing really carries it through
1.FRWL
2.CR
3.MR
Also, TND novel bt Raymond Benson was superb.
Other than that disturbing part, it is finely written and a great read.
I'm currently rereading the original Fleming stories @4EverBonded (just about to start Risico) and I have to say they make for quite uncomfortable reading at times.
There are undertones of sadism by some male characters against female characters amongst Fleming's work at times. I think it adds a shock factor to the reader.
Yeah, but some of the stuff ("all women love semi-rape" is one that springs to mind) push it too far. I think it's possible to be a big Fleming fan but still accept that some of his writing is pretty horrible.
I know not got the FRWL is it any good or worth buying?
I am a Fleming fan, but those kinds of parts of his writing are horrible.
The rest of the story is very well written, do try it.
Draw your own conclusions but better left to his biographers on moral character.
I know second hand from a late friend and 1st edition illustrator, Richard Chopping, that he was not the nicest man that ever lived.