A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
The opening chapter of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is called “Seascape with Figures”, and it’s hard to think of...
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A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading The Spy Who Loved Me
Ian Fleming doesn’t want you to read The Spy Who Loved Me. He blocked a paperback edition being published during...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading Thunderball
Nine books into the series, Ian Fleming gains a sense of humour. The James Bond novels up to this point...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading For Your Eyes Only
The eighth book in the original Ian Fleming run of James Bond adventures differs from the previous seven. Instead of...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading Goldfinger
Goldfinger marks a concerted effort by Ian Fleming to humanise his literary spy, James Bond. Despite what some say about...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading Dr No
Keeping Bond’s fate a mystery after the cliffhanger ending of From Russia with Love, Dr No begins with M arriving...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading From Russia With Love
Diamonds Are Forever's greatest, though far from sole, flaw was its villains. Unmemorable, underdeveloped, not scary, and nothing but cheesy...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading Diamonds Are Forever
By page 33 of Diamonds Are Forever, James Bond is already undercover as Peter Franks in an operation to disassemble...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading Moonraker
Moonraker begins not with a bang, but with two bangs. Bond is testing a new machine in the shooting range,...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading Live and Let Die
There's now a hint of anger in James Bond's cold grey-blue eyes. After the events of Casino Royale, Bond is...
