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A review by sakurafire
Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming
5.0
A great spy novel about the greatest fictional spy (sorry Bourne). Fleming's James Bond is slightly different than the film version. The book allows you to get inside his head, showing him cold and professional at times, then overcame by emotions at others. The book is very violent and does not shy away from gory details. It was a fun adventure and at times it was "edge-of-your-seat" reading.
To those of you upset about the book's racial slurs and discrimination, understand that this was very much a product of its time. I will leave you with a blurb that I borrowed from the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVDs (of all things) that always comes to mind when I visit things from an earlier generation.
"The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in the U.S society. These depictions were wrong then and they are wrong today. While the following does not represent the Warner Bros. view of today's society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming that these prejudices never existed."
If you plan on reading this, I hope you enjoy Bond's adventure and continue with the other books. They are definitely a treat for fans of the movie or spy genre.
To those of you upset about the book's racial slurs and discrimination, understand that this was very much a product of its time. I will leave you with a blurb that I borrowed from the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVDs (of all things) that always comes to mind when I visit things from an earlier generation.
"The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in the U.S society. These depictions were wrong then and they are wrong today. While the following does not represent the Warner Bros. view of today's society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming that these prejudices never existed."
If you plan on reading this, I hope you enjoy Bond's adventure and continue with the other books. They are definitely a treat for fans of the movie or spy genre.