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5.0 out of 5 stars Yeah, baby!, Jun 2 2004

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Glenn Miller (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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Again, Fleming delivers. Good, clean fun from the Cold War 50s. If you can get past Fleming's assumptions that all blacks in America are somehow interconnected by a mysterious communications web, and Fleming's comfort in using the "N"- word, then you'll enjoy this second installment in the Bond series. There's far more action than the first in the series, Casino Royale, what with Bond battling sharks and barracudas and whatnot. A hair-raisingly scary episode takes place as Bond makes his way underwater to the golden lair of Mr. Big, but rest assured, dear reader, that our Mr. Bond makes it through to the end of the book, safe and alive, albeit without a chunk of shoulder muscle, but that's neither here nor there. And wassup with Felix Leiter? Does he have all his body parts or not? Fleming kind of dropped the ball, so to speak, with letting us know whether or not Leiter was to survive for another adventure.
The Fleming series is undoubtedly addictive... Hardy Boys for the adults. On to "Moonraker" for me, baby.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Plain fabulous., Nov 19 2011

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Pius (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - See all my reviews

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The first thing about Live and Let Die is the very attractive start with terrific descriptions and well written lines. It drew me in just great.The writing is smooth or even poetic and comes with a wittiness and effective dialogue that is not common around.The plot reminds me of Flash of the Sun. Not only it is gripping, it comes with many twists and turns and is effective in retaining the reader's interest all the way to the end.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Mr. Big --- the first of the great Bond villains, May 13 2004

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Charles Wilcox (Brandon, Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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Let me get this out of the way first -- if you can be easily offended by racial slurs, this is not the book for you. One must recall this was written in the mid 50s when racial insensitivity was unfortunately still quite prominent. Still, if you can put all that aside, you will find an enjoyable adventure story.
Mr. Big is the first of 007's "super-villains" and deservedly so -- he is portrayed as a criminal intellect that would warm even the heart of Hannibal Lechter. Bond, as in the prior novel, "Casino Royale" is portrayed as a human being and not the Connery/Moore/Brosnan superman most know from the movies, though if you watch carefully, you will spot a couple of death traps that were used in two of the films: Felix Leiter's fate as portrayed in "Licence to Kill" is directly from the "off-camera" action of this book; and the climactic attempt to feed Bond and Solitare to the sharks was directly adapted in the film version of "For Your Eyes Only."
The story itself involves 007 globetrotting from New York to Florida to the Caribbean in an attempt to destroy the crime syndicate of Mr. Big, a believed SMERSH opperative. Along the way he ends up a little the worse for wear (broken finger; mangled shoulder) but he still manages to get the girl, the nubile Solitare; and encounter the first of his many deathtraps. And as a Florida resident, I've been to some of the places Fleming generalized about and was amused by some of the things he said.
For those who have seen the film of the same name, there are similar nuances (Whisper and Tee-hee make brief appearances), but the book is very different from the movie. Again, some may find some of the content abraisive, to say the least, but if that can be overcome, the story is enjoyable.

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3.0 out of 5 stars The first of the great evil Bond characters, but
I plan to read the stories in sequence, which is a good thing otherwise I would have later wondered about the character of Felix Leiter when he appears in upcoming stories. Read more

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