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Beautiful girls. Crime lords. Assassins. Deadly secrets ...
It's all in a day's work for Bond.
Whether he's making an unexpected discovery in the Bahamas, hunting down a Cuban hit-man in wild country, smashing an international drugs ring in Rome, on the trail of a murderous secret in the Caribbean, enjoying New York's special pleasures or foiling a surprisingly alluring assassin in Berlin's sniper's alley, dangerous missions and seductive women come with the job for James Bond. And this agent is always a consummate professional.
Quantum of Solace brings together all of the James Bond short stories in one volume for the first time, this is the ultimate celebration of suave and deadly secret agent 007.
About the Author
Ian Fleming was born in 1908 and educated at Eton. After a brief period at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, he went abroad to further his education. In 1931, having failed to get an appointment in the Foreign Office, he joined Reuters News Agency. During the Second World War, he was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence at the Admiralty, rising to the rank of Commander. His wartime experiences provided him with a first-hand knowledge of secret operations.
After the war he became Foreign Manager of Kemsley Newspapers. He built his house, Goldeneye, in Jamaica and there at the age of forty-four he wrote Casino Royale, the first of his novels featuring Commander James Bond. By the time of his death in 1964, the James Bond adventures had sold more than forty million copies. Dr No, starring Sean Connery, was released in 1962 and the Bond films continue to be huge international successes. He is also the author of the magical children's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
The novels of Ian Fleming were immediately recognised as classic thrillers by his contemporaries Kingsley Amis, Raymond Chandler and John Betjeman. With the invention of James Bond, Ian Fleming created the greatest British fictional icon of the late twentieth century.
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This review is from: Penguin Classics Quantum Of Solace (Hardcover)
This is a collection of short stories by Ian Fleming featuring James Bond. Some of the titles are recognizable as previous 007 films but...the stories themselves have really nothing in common with the movies, Quantum of Solace for example. A curious example of intellectual property meeting movie marketing. This book is a good intro to Fleming's vision of 007, he does have other cases to fill his time apart from saving the world from gold plated megalomaniacs. Here he is a 1950s government vigilante serving British interests in foreign countries (get out the Googlemaps!), sometimes due process is left by the wayside. Fleming writes a good thriller, he showed the way for later Brit writers such as Len Deighton, Frederick Forsythe, John le Carre, et al. There's a lot of "product placement" advertising in the narratives, I thought Stephen King was the first at that style, it does give the stories a certain verisimiltude. There's the ladies, a curious male chauvinism, and finally a detailed scrambled egg recipe, we can probably leave out the Taittainger's and low music.
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Great product, fast shipping, just as advertised.,
This review is from: Penguin Classics Quantum Of Solace (Hardcover)
The book was just as advertised and in great shape. The price was competitive and shipping costs were very reasonable. The communication was great and the product arrived in a timely manner. Amazon works!
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4.2 out of 5 stars (24 customer reviews) 32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
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007's Comfort and Discomfort in 9 Short Stories,
By H. S. Wedekind "Mr. Weekend" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Quantum Of Solace (Paperback)
"Quantum of Solace - the amount of comfort. Yes, I suppose you could say that all love and friendship is based in the end on that. Human beings are very insecure. When the other person not only makes you feel insecure but actually seems to want to destroy you, it's obviously the end. The Quantum of Solace stands at zero. You've got to get away to save yourself."- James Bond (QUANTUM OF SOLACE) This paperback, recently released before the debut on November 21, 2008 of the latest 007 movie of the same name, "Quantum of Solace," is actually a compilation of nine short stories written by Ian Fleming in two separate books (FOR YOUR EYES ONLY and OCTOPUSSY/THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS). According to Fleming's biographer John Pearson in his book THE LIFE OF IAN FLEMING, six or so of these short stories began as outlines for half-hour TV episodes written for CBS in the late '50s. The TV series never got off the ground but the short stories have survived. Several of them were made into full-length movies having absolutely nothing to do with the original stories (e.g. "Octopussy," "From a View to a Kill," and "For Your Eyes Only"). I can't imagine the next Bond movie, starring Daniel Craig as a much better 007 than any of the previous ones in my opinion, (Sean Connery excepted) has anything to do with the short story "Quantum of Solace," since it is only about a conversation between JB and the Governor of The Bahamas (the governor's name is never given) in Nassau after a dinner party. There's no action. No intrigue. No skullduggery. It's simply a story about a failed marriage. Suffice it to say, the short stories are well-worth reading on their own. Bond is his usual suave and deadly self and a staunch defender of Queen and Country against the West's old Cold War nemesis...the Soviet Union. Highly recommended. 32 of 35 people found the following review helpful
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The contents of this book,
By R. MCCOSKER - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Quantum Of Solace (Paperback)
This is a collection of all of the nine short stories about James Bond which were written by the late Ian Fleming.(Fleming, of course, created the character of James Bond and was the author of the books which became the basis for all the James Bond movies. In addition to the short stories, Fleming wrote twelve novels about Bond.) Over the years, these short stories have been kept in print in two collections: _For Your Eyes Only_, with five stories; and _Octopussy and The Living Daylights_, with four. Now, for the first time ever, every one of the nine stories have been collected in a single volume, _Quantum of Solace_, which makes owning all these stories more convenient and economical. That's the good news. The not-so-good news is that the publisher here exercised no imagination, merely sandwiching together the contents of the two books. Looking for a well-written foreword or afterword about these stories or their author? No such luck: The publisher includes no foreword or afterword at all. The stories as earlier collected were not arranged according to the sequence of James Bond's life -- or to any other discernible plan. This new omnibus collection does absolutely nothing to fix that -- it just puts one unchanged collection behind another unchanged collection. This is disappointing, because we know from books by researchers like John Griswold (_Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies_) that there are sound ways to sequence the stories (and novels) by events in the life of James Bond. Here are the contents of _Quantum of Solace_, as arranged in the book: (Repeating the contents in sequence from _For Your Eyes Only_ ...) "From a View to a Kill" "For Your Eyes Only" "Quantum of Solace" "Risico" "The Hildebrand Rarity" (... and then repeating the contents of _Octopussy and The Living Daylights_) "Octopussy" "The Property of a Lady" "The Living Daylights" "007 in New York" 16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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BOND IN SHORT,
By Michael C. Smith "MGMboy@aol.com" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Quantum Of Solace (Paperback)
This collection of Ian Fleming short stories is a must have for any Bond fan. I have been discovering Fleming since the release of the film "Casino Royale" and have found his books to be not only thrilling but also very well written. His prose is as lean, hard and ruthless as James Bond himself. He is a joy to read.Here in "Quantum of Solace" I was not disappointed. All the stories are wonderful and it is amazing to see how Fleming can pack so much drama and excitement into a few pages just as he does in his full-length novels. Among the best short stories, at least my favorites are; "Risico" has a wonderful Roman setting and a surprise villain, just so much fun. "Quantum of Solace" is an incredible tale of the death of love told over cocktails. "View To A Kill", Catapults the reader into a trill ride which is very cinematic and a great story. "Property of a Lady" shows the cool everyday aspect of what being a Secret Service agent is about. "The Living Daylights". Here the cold winter cityscape of cold war Berlin is wonderfully described and a little romance too. And of special note you can find a scrumptious recipe for scrambled eggs in "007 In New York" (The character of Solange in the film of Casino Royale seems to have come from this story) All the stories are wonderful, and this is a must have for any Bond fan. It is fascinating to pick out scenes from the stories that have ended up being incorporated into various films in the franchise, some intact with their stories titles and some buried into a plot for a film not related to the title. Such is the case with "Risico". You will have fun just as I did in the "Ah ha" moment of realization on this point. So Bond is back in the movies now in a bigger way than ever before thanks to the reinvention of the franchise and to Daniel Craig who is by far the nearest to Bond as he appears in the books. And here in "Quantum of Solace" you have the opportunity to enter into his world by way of mere vignettes where you will find no solace for James Bond but a lot of adventure fun, and fine writing. |
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