Trigger mortis 2015 novel5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re looking for official James Bond books that are actually, legitimately great and not as problematic as their literary forebears, three much newer novels-all published between 20-are damn near perfect. To really enjoy yourself and feel good about the world at the same time, you really have to cherry-pick your vintage Bond books pretty carefully. While a case can be made for individual novels (again, Moonraker and Thunderball are great, as is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service), others, like Live and Let Die (1954) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1962), can only be read with a bag over your head. So the question is: if you’ve skipped the Bond books, should you read them? Maybe not! Although Fleming was a pioneer of espionage literature who essentially revolutionized the page-turner, it’s very hard to make a strong case that a contemporary reader (or casual Bond fan) will love reading the Fleming-Bond for one simple reason: many of the books are dated to the point of (sometimes) being offensive. ![]() What James Bond Really Drank in the Books. ![]()
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