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  <title><![CDATA[Live and Let Die]]></title>
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  <default_description>Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner (and tool) of Mr. Big - master of fear, artist in crime, and Voodoo Baron of Death. James Bond has no time for superstition - he knows that Big is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem to the Everglades and on the Caribbean, 007 has realized that Mr. Big is one of the most dangerous men that he has ever faced. And no one, not even the enigmatic Solitaire, can be sure how their battle of wills is going to end.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1954</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ian Fleming]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, I'd known that Ian Fleming is on record as having been a racist and sexist bastard, but somehow I had managed to not really notice that much the first time I'd taken a spin through the Bond novels. And there were a couple of bits I took issue with in my recent re-read of <em>Casino Royale</em>, sure, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40637419">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Dec 02 11:42:53 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[007 would appreciate the snobbish observation that the Bond books are more substantial than the movies. This one (#2 in the series) is nothing special though. Or, let's say, what makes it special is how candidly racist it is. Seriously, I was embarrassed to read this on the subway.<br/><br/>As with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39123659">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77734681">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 14 03:34:30 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Nov 14 03:35:03 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good heavens, James Bond has feelings! And, sometimes he is afraid!! While this book is really quite well written, it beats me how anyone saw the huge commercial potential for Bondy – i.e. it didn’t really do a lot for me. It was interesting, though, to see which bits of the book turned up in va...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77734681">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54374943">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ed]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 29 11:13:18 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[After Casino Royale, this one is a bit of a letdown. I would really give it two and a half stars but that doesn't seem to be an option here. The good news: the voodoo world is interesting for a practical cynic like Bond to have to inhabit. The shark and keel hauling bits were so effective they were ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54374943">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68892954">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 25 19:01:13 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 27 14:20:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was told that &quot;Live and Let Die&quot; was slightly racist as a movie, but I figured I'd read the book before watching. To be honest, I've never seen a Bond movie from beginning to end (and am somehow, indeed, alive. Shocking, no?)<br/><br/>But seriously, ignore these claims of overt racism ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68892954">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44532850">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 27 11:38:42 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 31 19:38:34 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I became interested in reading this after seeing the new Casion Royale movie with Daniel Craig for the second time. I wanted to read a Ian Fleming book. I looked for Casino Royale at the library but they didn't have a copy. Live and Let Die was the next in the series. The novel and the movie have so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44532850">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59612199">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mike]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 14 08:44:15 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 18 09:21:00 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thinking I would see the new James Bond movie, I wanted to read one of the novels to get a sense of how what Ian Fleming did was different than what the movie does. I'll mostly leave that aside except to note that the film is nothing but overblown texture, and the book is nearly lacking in texture o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59612199">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71353906">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 15 18:06:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 28 06:18:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's always interesting to look back on the original source material for James Bond and find out how radically different and how strangely similar the movies and the novels can be.<br/><br/>After faithfully following the Ian Fleming novels for the first several installments, each Bond film slowly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71353906">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77840029">
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 15 07:13:13 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 16 14:42:46 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[James Bond travels to Harlem and than Jamaica to battle the evil 'Mr. Big' ( I guess all the really good villain names were taken) who is using his drug empire as a front for the evil commies!<br/>Great locations, lots of cool action, a truly evil bad guy, A psychic  babe who may or may not be on o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77840029">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61909313">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 02 11:10:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 24 11:50:27 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first &quot;adventure-style&quot; Bond novel.  It is a very memorable book but lost some of the hard emotion that the first book had.  Critics have panned this book heavily because of the racist portrayal of African-Americans.  This was harsh on Fleming's part, just about flat-out wrong...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61909313">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27794473">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dave]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 20 16:08:05 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 26 20:53:39 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Note to Sebastian Faulks who is writing the next Bond book:  We don't need to know what Bond eats and drinks at every meal.  In fact unless the food is poisoned the fact that Bond even eats is an irrelevant detail.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="53139599">
    <user id="994396">
    <name><![CDATA[Erin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lets get this out of the way first: this was a really, really uncomfortable book to read.  If you're considering picking this up, be aware going in that it was written in a different time.<br/><br/>And by &quot;different&quot; I mean racist.<br/><br/>That said, if you can overlook the more dated...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53139599">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40092583">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second best Bond book happens to be the second in the series.  This one gets a fair amount of discussion as it blatently displays some of the racist attitudes and language of the day (the mid-'50s).  Hard to overlook, it's true.  But the book's merits include watching Bond operate in Harlem with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40092583">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42815860">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nicole]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Mar 04 12:20:54 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good, I'd say. What I liked is that Bond develops an attachment to Solitaire and then tries to behave chivalrously, without actually consummating his relationship with her (more or less at Solitaire's insistence . . . but still). That's nice, I think, because these days of course Bond wouldn'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42815860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34847622">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why have I never read a James Bond book before?  I've watched and enjoyed most of the movies, but for some reason I had never read any of the original Ian Fleming novels.  Well now I have, and it won't be my last.  “Live and Let Die” was dated, fast paced, exuberant, and tons of fun.  It also re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34847622">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27191780">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people who love adventure or espionage thrillers.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 16 05:55:14 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 14 06:33:32 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[With the latest Bond movie right around the corner, I decided to go back and read some of Ian Fleming's old Bond books. I started reading Live and Let Die in college, but couldn't get into it at the time. I always preferred the later Bond books, which were more fanciful and action-packed. This one (...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27191780">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Suppose that one must be aware of the times when reading a novel.  While Fleming may have been tapping into people's paranoia over the civil rights movement and the rising status of African Americans way back in the 1950s, I've just finished reading this at a time when Barack Obama is running as a c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17360649">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read all the Ian Fleming James Bond novels in middle school and high school, and this year decided to revisit a few. They're all tinged with out-of-date attitudes about sex and race, but for the post-Civil-Rights-era reader, LIVE AND LET DIE, with its uptown negro voodoo king villain, induces more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/774496">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a pretty good book. Part way through I realized that I am in more of a science fiction mode, but I still enjoyed the book. Mr. Big aka the reincarnation of Baron Samedi is such a great villain! He claims to be the reincarnation of Baron Samedi and to have voodoo powers, and the idea of vood...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62440370">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the classic James Bond books... the character is so much more vivid than in the movies.  But truthfully, I did not enjoy this one as much as I had hoped.  The most vivid passages in this book are Ian Fleming's descriptions of food, cars, jazz, and women and, overall, give the impression of an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33223125">more...</a>]]></body>
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