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Casino Royale | 
 enlarge | Author: Ian Fleming
Publisher: NY: Signet, 1953
Category: Book
Buy Used: $0.75
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 79279
Media: Paperback
Pages: 144
ASIN: B000O36TM6
Publication Date: 1953
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 Despite the Mod Movie edition Cover a Good Bond Novel December 11, 2006
This is not only Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel but one of his best. It is richly textured, well written, clearly defines the Bond character and has survived not only as good literature but as a great period piece of the 50s. It also gives us a glimpse of the often unseen smoke filled cocktailed night life found in Europe's plush casinos of that era. Clearly, James Bond is a worldly character that lives and breaths in this unseen world described by Ian Fleming in this novel. James Bond can easily adapt to any locale or situation, size it up and endure. He is both innovative and resourceful and he must rely on his talents and instincts to survive. This is a very good Bond novel. The blatantly mod movie edition with a cover designed from the movie poster of the 1967 version of CASINO ROYALE is a bit deceiving to say the least from Ian Fleming's brilliant prose contained between the covers.
 Not the best.... November 26, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Casino Royale is the first book of the adventures of James Bond. In some ways, the James Bond from the pages of Ian Fleming's novels is very different.
Colder, more ruthless, more direct. No high-tech weapons, no lasers in the watch, no flame throwers in the car, just a few guns, a cool head and a distrustful nature.
The story is rough, the word usage not as smooth as some authors and the view point of the novel seems to shift from first person to third person every once and awhile. Ian Flaming also liked to paint a dark picture of human nature. The first paragraph is a dead give away.
The saving grace is the fact that Mr. Fleming KNEW what he was writing about. Codes, foreign spies and military intelligence were in his blood. In some ways the book version of James Bond will always be more realistic, more dangerous, more cruel than any actor playing him on the big screen.
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