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... the subject of film, Mankowitz was an award winning screenwriter, and worked on the early James Bond movies, Dr No and Casino Royale
I've just finished the philosophical The Art of Travel and need to simmer the ideas from the book for a while. I do recommend it especially if you like ...
Casino Royale
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I just listened to The Scarlet Pimpernel David Thorn version - very good! I also liked Simon Vance's version of Casino Royale . I like to listen to the sample first at audible to see if I'll like listening to that voice or not. I also always check the reviews to see what people said about ...
Hmm, just finished listening to Casino Royale on audiotape (great narration by Simon Vance, btw). I can't say I was really crazy about Bond, but it was fun to get inside his head, albeit, I didn't really like what I found!
#65 Casino Royale by Ian Fleming Something I've wanted to read for a long time, although I can't say it made more of a lover of Bond. I don't think I'd like to be his girlfriend, if you know what I mean. 3.5/5 hdcclassic in 1001 Books to read before you die : hdc versus 1001 books (2008) (Oct 8, 2009, 10:12am)
... The Third Policeman Flann O’Brien
398. The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
493. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
520. Casino Royale Ian Fleming (actually I might even have finished this, not completely sure)
605. At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O’Brien
657. The Man Without Qualities Robe ...
... in Wonderland
13. Phantom of the Opera
14. TBA
15. TBA
Bond, James Bond
16. The Man with the Golden Gun
17. Casino Royale
18. Live and Let Die
19. Dr. No
20. The Spy Who Loves Me
I'm now listening to Casino Royale narrated by Simon Vance.
... List: 500-599
503 Bonjour Tristesse
508 Lord of the Flies
510 The Go-Between
514 Lucky Jim on Mount TBR
518 Casino Royale
519 The Judge and His Hangman
526 Day of the Triffids on Mount TBR
529 The Catcher in the Rye
535 The Third Man
536 The 13 Clocks
538 The Gras ...
... Based on that criteria, Live and Let Die succeeds. And may I say that it does so infinitely better than its predecessor, Casino Royale . I saw much improvement in Fleming's writing style. The action scenes were fantastic. When Bond found what he found (no spoilers!) my jaw dropped open. ...
... based on that criteria, Live and Let Die succeeds. And may I say that it does so infinitely better than its predecessor, Casino Royale . I saw much improvement in Fleming's writing style. The action scenes were fantastic. When Bond found what he found (no spoilers!) my jaw dropped open. ...
... slamming the book, the author and everything in their vicinity.
Last week I finally dipped into a James Bond novel, Casino Royale to be exact. I don't know that I'll be going down that path again. I'm willing to allow for the fact that it was written in the 50s, thus giving us sexist and ...
finished Casino Royale by Ian Fleming.
category: 007 Heaven
1.5 stars
I've tried to write this review four times and have erased all of them. What it boils down to is that this book is boring. Too much talk and not enough action. It's a short novel, easily read in one sitting and yet I fell ...
... then it can be a copy of the National Examiner or Bolano's latest. Money knows no loyalty.
From the movie Casino :
Ace Rothstein: In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, ...
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007 Heaven
1. Casino Royale (9.13.2009)
2. Live and Let Die (9.22.2009)
3. Diamonds are Forever (9.26.2009)
4. From Russia with Love (10.2.2009)
5. Goldfinger
70. Casino Royal de Ian Fleming
Après avoir grandi dans les James Bond, je lis enfin mon premier livre! Je m'attendais à une différence, mais pas à ce point là! Un James Bond misogyne, faillible, émotif sous sa carapace de dur - c'est là tout un portait. Il y a très peu d'action mais ...
... have a lot of books to choose from. I have already gotten a lot of great suggestions from your list alcottace.
68. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming. The first James bond book was a little bit dated for modern times as it was written in 1953, but it was still good. I think in some ways the ...
... of myth and history is also wonderfully done - this will be a real discovery.
For a complete change, I've also started Casino Royal by Ian Fleming. I'm enjoying it but it's hard to keep the movie from my mind and I can already detect some inconsistencies...
... Sartre
10. Night by Elie Wiesel
I Spy
1. Royal Flush by Rhys Bowen
2. Celia Garth by Gwen Bristow
3. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
4. The Laurentine Spy by Emily Gee
5. A Sundial in a Grave: 1610 by Mary Gentle*
6. Beneath a Silent Moon by Tracy Grant
7. All Other ...
171. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming- one of the few instances when I can definitely say- the movie is WAY better. Bond's character is flat, and Vesper is a moron. A complete, spineless moron. But Leiter is pretty awesome...and M is a man? I dunno. Movie= good. Book= stupids.
... Volcano
Exercises in Style
1984
The Catcher in the Rye
Molloy
Memoirs of Hadrien
The Old Man and the Sea
Casino Royale
Fear of Flying
The Dispossessed
Kiss of the Spiderwoman
Interview with the Vampire
Delta Venus
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Hitchhiker ...
... Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (I may inherit this after she reads it)
Her boyfriend got:
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Happy Reading!!!
I finished Casino Royale and am on to Innocent sins by Anne Mather.
Julia
I started Casino Royale by Ian Fleming.
Kaytbear, I haven't read them so far. I picked Casino Royale because it's on the 1001 books list and i figured it will be an enjoyable read, since the last one I picked was so boring.
So far it's very confusing, because I'm already so used to M being a woman and it's just weird to read about M ...
I finished Lucky Streak by Carly Phillips. Next is Casino Royale by Ian Fleming.
Julia
In From Russia With Love, James Bond is sitting on the train reading Eric Ambler's A Coffin for Dimitrios which interestingly enough is a spy thriller.
I thought Casino Royale was quite good. Quantum of Solace almost seemed like back-pedaling though. Maybe I need to see it again, but there didn't seem to be much plot to it.
Another thumbs up for Casino Royale , which I saw in the theater first and on cable since then. Daniel Craig totally revives the series for me with the grittiness mentioned above. It was starting to become a spoof of itself, and now is returning to its gripping Sean Connery-type form.
I do ...
Finally saw the first Daniel Craig as Bond movie, Casino Royale . Loved it--seemed gritty to me in a way the films haven't been since the very early ones. And he is not hard to look at!
April catch-up, pile 2:
Himalaya by Michael Palin
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Everything You Didn't Need to Know About the UK by Nick Brownlee
Missee Lee by Arthur Ransome
The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller
The Little F ...
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Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters edited by Merlin Holland
Himalaya by Michael Palin
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Everything You Didn't Need to Know About the UK by Nick Brownlee
Missee Lee by Arthur Ransome
The Rose of Sebastopol by Katherine McMah ...
This seemed to be an essential category for this group. Besides the evident Ian Fleming and the infamous James Bond , I thought I'd start this thread with a lovely little book called Aerobleu Martini Diaries by Leslie Ann Nash - delightful with its quirky recipes and humour. Looking forward ...
Casino Royale , after listening to the audio book a while ago. I saw it at the cinema when it was released and thought it was very good, powerful in places. The James Bond films never managed to draw me in (I thought they were pretty ridiculous), but this one did. Good action (not fo the OTT type), ...
... but if they're mainly action-oriented e.g. Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne, Ian Fleming's James Bond , I tag those with "thriller".
... issues with China, but I admire that when they find officials guilty of corruption, they take them out and execute them.
Casino reminded me of grand opera. Everything was bigger than life, lots of death, murder, and melodrama. Goodfellas is like a demented buddy movie. Casino isn't great, ...
In their prime, Scorsese and Coppola could make great 3 hour works (Casino and The Godfather come to mind). Now, not so much.
... the big?"
There's also a wonderful documentary on the f-word.
Speaking of comedy, anyone ever watch Scorsese's Casino on pay cable? It's like watching a Bruce Lee kung fu movie, the editing is so bad. Not to mention the pure surreal pleasure of watching Goodfellas on Lifetime: ...
... yet)
Stardust
Along Came a Spider
Kiss the Girls
Baby-Sitters Club
The Beach by Alex Garland
Big Fish
Casino Royale
Last of the Mohicans
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Dolores Claiborne
The English Patient
Stand by Me
The Secret Garden
... see on the list:
Brave New World
Brighton Rock
The Chocolate War
Cabal made into the movie, "Nightbreed"
Casino Royale
The Haunting of Hill House
And Then There Were None
In Cold Blood
Flowers in the Attic
A Prayer for Owen Meany made into "Simon Birch"
A Stir ...
... From Russia with Love although Goldfinger is close and has a much better soundtrack. Daniel Craig comes in third with Casino Royale . I like all of the other Bonds with the exceptions of anything in it with Roger Moore and of course the dreadful George Lazenby.
#284 "The Wrath of Khan ...
... about a book, read it, then realize that it's part of a series. When I get a chance to start at the beginning I do.
Casino Royale is the first in the James Bond series, so personally I'd start there. It's very good.
You sound frustrated - this is supposed to be fun, not a chore! Read ...
... The 60s version of Batman with Adam West and Burt Ward, Get Smart with Don Adams and Barbara Feldon and the James Bond movies too?
Beatles1964
So, would you say that Casino Royale would be a good choice? If I were going to read only one of the series, which one would you recommend?
"Anna" is coming right along. I really love it, which surprises me. I guess I thought it would be hard to understand, like Ulysses or something, but it's ...
Casino Royale is the first book of the series - James Bond, that is.
... 1960's
154. The Old Man and the Sea, Hemmingway, 1960's
155. The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1960's
156. Casino Royale, Ian Fleming , 1960's
157. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin, 1968
158. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow, 1968
159. Lucky Jim, King ...
... 1960's
154. The Old Man and the Sea, Hemmingway, 1960's
155. The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1960's
156. Casino Royale, Ian Fleming , 1960's
157. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin, 1968
158. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow, 1968
159. Lucky Jim, King ...
#77 The Trial - Franz Kafka
5/5
#78 Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
5/5
#79 Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
4/5
#80 Sphere - Michael Crichton
3/5
#81 Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
2.5/5
#82 Lord of the Flies - William G ...
... of reading Conrad; Oliver Twist was manipulative and implausible to the nth degree plus anti-semitic into the bargain; Casino Royale an agent without agency (Bond does zippo except get lucky at cards); more of a dead horse in for more beating, but Women in Love? Lawrence is so emo; and ...
EX: The House of the Dead, After the Quake, Brideshead Revisited, Casino Royale , Sons and Lovers, "Brokeback Mountain", Amadeus, O Pioneers!, The Odyssey, Day
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
... stories, and my world view was probably somewhat naive because of that!
But within a year or two I was also reading the James Bond stories, pretty much the other end of the spectrum! And Gone with the Wind, which I read before I was ten--I remember my mother making a special trip with me ...
I am reading Thunderball by Ian Fleming, the seventh book in the James Bond series.
After this, I will probably read New Moon, the second in the Twilight Saga.
Brideshead Revisited ****
by Evelyn Waugh
11/14/08
Casino Royale **½
by Ian Fleming
11/15/08
The Ghost Writer ***
by Philip Roth
11/15/08
... Star Wars, Star Trek, A Street Car Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, or if he had written Ian Fleming's James Bond . A King version of 007 imagine that. The list is virtually endless of course.
Beatles1964
Right, I'm not proud of this but Casino Royale ?
52. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming -- I hadn't read this Bond novel previously. This is one of the better Fleming novels and a good amount of the recent movie that rebooted Bond was taken from this novel.
Sorry to hear about your father. My sympathies...
Casino Royale is my second favorite Bond after On Her Majesty's Secret Service, so I'm glad you liked it! I just finished reading pretty much the whole series, and it's interesting to see how Bond changes as the series progresses. Are you ...
I read Casino Royale over the weekend, without realising it was on the list. Now that I have read it, I'm not sure why it is on there.
Now onto Jane Eyre on audiobook, read by Juliet Stevenson, who is very well suited to the task. Liking it a lot so far.
X. Other fiction
Laika
Stepmother
Casino Royale The little sister
The big sleep
Wild nights!
The Contractor
The Murderer Vine
The Ba ...
Richard Chopping died April 17 at the age of 91. Best known as the illustrator for the James Bond covers he was an author in his on right. In addition to children's books, he was the author of The Fly and The Ring.
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6. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré ***½
7. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett ***½
8. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming **
... Guide.
Learned how to wrestle in Beowulf.
Allegedly you can learn to make a Vesper Martini in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale , but I haven't read it so I can't be sure...
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
... Polly of Pebbly Pit. All wonderfully old-fashioned and wholesome!
But somewhere along the line I got ahold of the James Bond books and had a heck of a time trying to figure out why he was sucking a girl's toes and dropping his swim trunks! What was that all about??!! A couple of years ...
4. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming ~ read aloud to my son.
... by Graham Greene
3 and 4. Spy Hook and Spy Line by Len Deighton
5. The Debriefing by Robert Littell
6. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
7, 8, and 9. The Mammoth Book of Spy Thrillers, which contains The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Naked Runner ...
... will keep that in mind--in fact, I think I will have to check the stock of my local bookstores later this morning...
9: Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
This was fun, but I wonder if it would have actually been any more surprising if I hadn't seen the movie first (which was quite different, ...
... (5 x 10 ft) of books sight unseen and finding a few hardbacks in there from the 1890s. Or, running across an original James Bond in the thrift store for a dollar. I cherish these times, try NOT to buy paperbacks when I know I want the hardback, and go to the library a LOT. Libraries are ...
... fiction
Laika Stepmother
Casino Royale The little sister
Very good, Jeeves! Fore! The best ...
... Ellis
27. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
30. The Collector by John Fowles
31. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
32. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-ti ...
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
Goldfinger - Ian Fleming
The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin
The Crying Game - John Braine
Cheaper By The Dozen - Frank Gilbreth
33. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
... M. R. James and Graham Greene's Complete Short Stories.
Also this weekend, my wife bought me Ian Fleming's Casino Royale , while I got her Nancy Holder's Queen of the Slayers.
Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (after the recent film)
Greenmantle by John Buchan
Right Ho, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse (Continuous re-cycling of these)
Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
Waiting in the wings are the Aubrey/Maturin books and A Dance to the Musi ...
Terms associated with gambling or things you might bet on.
Odds Against by Dick Francis (Odds)
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (Casino)
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson (Lottery)
Byrne's Advanced Technique in Pool and Billiards by Robert Byrne (Pool/Billiar ...
I haven't read the biography, but I'll add it to my list.
I finally read Casino Royale , which I enjoyed, and started Live and Let Die, which made me uncomfortable. I immediately see what DLSmithies was talking about regarding racism. The depiction of African American, Haitian, and Jamaican ...
It's been ages since I've read the Bond books, but I did recently reread Casino Royale to compare to the new film as I'd read it was quite similar. It was, excluding the amazing chase scene in the beginning. LOL Gotta love a good chase scene!
I liked Craig in the role too, surprisingly for ...
... – This Side of Paradise (1920)
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
Ian Fleming – Casino Royal (1953)
E. M. Forster – A Passage to India (1924)
Robert Graves – I, Claudius (1934)
Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon (1930)
D ...
I've just reread Casino Royale twice (yes, it's that good. It's also short;)) and then Dr No - yes I know this is the wrong order but I found them both in a charity shop. So entertaining.
Bond is just the most fantastic character - so witty, so urbane, so intelligent - but the other ...
... a coinsidence.
I think Daniel Craig did a wonderful job and am glad that he was casted for the film. Considering that Casino Royale was the first Bond that Ian Fleming wrote, I think Pierce Brosnan wouldn't have fit into the roll of a new 00 agent who is still a little bit rough around ...
... go for the Sean Connery films, because the later ones tend to use little more than the title of Fleming's work. Actually, Casino Royale with the recent film would be a great comparison.
Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose is a film starring Sean Connery, and Christian Slater I think.
The ...
... A pure swift cry by Siobhan Dowd, a contender for the Book Trust Teenage Book Award in 2006, and then possibly, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming. On the other hand, Mao: the unknown story looks tempting, albeit very large. An embarrasment of riches.....
Lizzier (msg 38): I've just finished Casino Royale , which is the first of the Bond books (he has just gotten his "double 0" status at the beginning of the book). It's interesting to read the book, then see how much has been changed for the recent movie (about 25% resembles the book I'd say). The ...
... The Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford (which was just a bit too analytical for my taste).
I'm now into Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (which I bought before I knew there was a movie version coming, I swear!).
... only book that I've re-read on purpose after I realized there were too many books out there to read was Ian Fleming's Casino Royale . I actually re-read it before I realized the newest movie was going to based on it. I was going to start to re-read the Flemming books (Casino Royale was ...
We got
Der Mond by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Chrono Crusadevol. 3 by Daisuke Moriyama
I just love Christmas!!
I've completed reading Casino Royale by Ian Fleming on November 15, 2006.
And as of 0000H GMT of Nov. 18, 2006, I have completed so far 11% of A Good Year by Peter Mayle
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... pages of the current book that I'm reading.
So as of 0000H GMT of Nov. 11, 2006 , I have only so far completed 54% of Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
... current book that I'm reading.
So, as of 0000H GMT of Nov. 4, 2006, I have completed only about 20% of the book Casino Royale by Ian Fleming.
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The Casino Royale film takes the premise of the book: a wealthy banker is financing a terrorist group and Bond has to beat him at a casino game to bankrupt him. In the book, Fleming had him belong to SMERSH (Soviet assasination agency), but in the film it's Al-Quaeda. I'm looking forward to the ...
... there he discovers some mysteries in his family .
On October 26, 2006 at 14:00 GMT, Ive started reading the book Casino Royale by Ian Fleming . At 00:00 GMT of October 28 , I've only completed reading only 5% of the entire book ( one chapter only cos I'm so busy busy busy ) ...
... just in case you wanna read the books first before watching the movie . Dates shown are dates to be shown in the U.S.
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming - Nov 17, 2006
Flags of our Fathers - James Bradley - Oct 20, 2006
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White - Dec 20, 2006
Eragon - ...
... novels that I've yet read, and it seems to be a nod to Melville's 1969 film Army of Shadows )
Ian Fleming -- Casino Royale -- the only James Bond book that I know of that has a noir sensibility
Nathaniel West -- Miss Lonelyhearts; satiric, but with enough noir
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