Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories by Ian Fleming
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really liked this collection of short stories. And I must have read an earlier edition years ago (as they were all familiar to me in one way or another), re-reading them was just as pleasant as sinking into your favorite overstuffed armchair.
[ It is important to note that just because one enjoys the movies, they may not necessarily enjoy the books. Fleming's (paper) Bond is, in many ways, quite different than the character portrayed by Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton and Brosnan (but not, perhaps, Craig). ]
Each short story adds to the Bond character; even the one that's not about Bond tells us quite a bit about him!
Read it for fun, read it to round out your knowledge of Bond, read it for the thrills‚but read it.
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[Note: while reading this book on the bus, I added a cover to it, obscuring the figure on the front. A bit too racy for my taste, at least on the bus!]
