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Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

Ian Fleming

Start date: August 16, 1900

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Nov 15, 2009 Mike (the Paladin) rated it liked it · review of another edition

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James Bond and another meeting with SMERSH. We meet Felix Leiter in this one but things don't go as they do in the movies. You continually get treated to Fleming's none to flattering opinion of the US in these books. (The Americans have success says a Russian. Yes but if you plant a million potatoes... )It seems we were lucky to have James to protect us. ...more

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Sep 03, 2021 Edward rated it liked it

Bond's latest mission takes him to Harlem, Tampa, and Jamaica, and he trades the casual sexism of Casino Royale for casual racism and caricatures of the "negro race".

It's got it all: referring to Black women as "negress". Trying to mimic the Black voice / slang. Talk about the "negro race" as if it was one unified body. "The sixth sense of negroes". "Negroids". Voodoo and Juju. It's got a lot of elements of a Blaxploitation film.

Having said all that, this book (unlike Casino Royale) is where we ...more

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Jul 16, 2022 Ben Denison rated it really liked it

Audiobook on 12 hour drive from Dallas to Colorado. Good listen. The book Bond isn’t quite as invincible as the the movie Bond. This one has Mr. Big and his love interest is Solitaire. As a scuba diver myself, it was funny to read Fleming’s description of underwater. He made it way more dangerous than it is. But I guess at the time diving was still fairly new and much was still unknown.

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