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	title:	Live and Let Die (Penguin Viking Lit Fiction)
	author:	Ian Fleming
	format:	Paperback
	publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
	released:	October 26, 2006
	isbn:	0141028327
	isbn-13:	9780141028323

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Customer Reviews
Relaxing and Enjoyable Read - Rated This deserves better reviews than what it has been given. Whilst this book might come across to some readers as racist to people reading in this day and age, lets remind ourselves of the times in which this book was written. I thought this gave a good insight of the how the negro population lived, despite the American civil war being nearly a hundred years previously. The books certainly show a vulnrable side to James Bond whereas in the films he is portrayed as invincible with an answer to everything and escape route to any given situation. I gave this book a four star rating because of its easy read and its ability to keep the reader wanting to know what happens at the end. Another super title - Rated Having just read this book in two days I had to respond to the reviewer who called it racist and gave it one star. Yes, the attitude of Fleming to black people is undoubtedly outdated by today's standards. However it certainly isn't racist in any supremacist sense. After all the villain, Mr Big, is arguably more intelligent than Bond and it portrayed in a convincing and extremely fair-handed way. Bond's helper in Jamaica is also black and is given much respect by Bond because of his local knowledge and attitude. Of its time - yes. Racist? Claptrap. These politically-correct attitudes applied to historical literature are to be ignored for the nonsense they are. That dealt with, I can only recommend this book to all Bond fans, indeed anyone who likes a darn good well-written and pacy yarn. Infinitely more engaging than the film with Moore in the starring role. Buy it, enjoy it. Worth a read, but beware.... - Rated The world in which Ian Flemming grew up in doesn't exist anymore, and nothing shows this up more than his attitude to the people of Jamaica and Harlem. Flemming has achieved a strange mix in his observations, for me at least - from cringing to down right embarrassing. Dated racial attitudes aside, the story is a typical original Bond novel, yes "even better than the film". Solitaire seems more believable, Mr Big is genuinely menacing, and the diving sequence has some real thrills. Take it as a period piece, and you'll enjoy Bond develop in his second story. Racist, dated, boring - Rated The above pretty much sums it up really, very dissapointed. Makes me wonder when all the literary reviewers who are currently fawning over 'devil may care' atually last read a 'real' bond book. 'Time this franchise was consigned to the past

Customer Reviews

Relaxing and Enjoyable Read - Rated 4/5
This deserves better reviews than what it has been given.

Whilst this book might come across to some readers as racist to people reading in this day and age, lets remind ourselves of the times in which this book was written.

I thought this gave a good insight of the how the negro population lived, despite the American civil war being nearly a hundred years previously.

The books certainly show a vulnrable side to James Bond whereas in the films he is portrayed as invincible with an answer to everything and escape route to any given situation.

I gave this book a four star rating because of its easy read and its ability to keep the reader wanting to know what happens at the end.

Another super title - Rated 4/5
Having just read this book in two days I had to respond to the reviewer who called it racist and gave it one star.

Yes, the attitude of Fleming to black people is undoubtedly outdated by today's standards. However it certainly isn't racist in any supremacist sense. After all the villain, Mr Big, is arguably more intelligent than Bond and it portrayed in a convincing and extremely fair-handed way. Bond's helper in Jamaica is also black and is given much respect by Bond because of his local knowledge and attitude. Of its time - yes. Racist? Claptrap. These politically-correct attitudes applied to historical literature are to be ignored for the nonsense they are.

That dealt with, I can only recommend this book to all Bond fans, indeed anyone who likes a darn good well-written and pacy yarn. Infinitely more engaging than the film with Moore in the starring role.

Buy it, enjoy it.

Worth a read, but beware.... - Rated 3/5
The world in which Ian Flemming grew up in doesn't exist anymore, and nothing shows this up more than his attitude to the people of Jamaica and Harlem. Flemming has achieved a strange mix in his observations, for me at least - from cringing to down right embarrassing.
Dated racial attitudes aside, the story is a typical original Bond novel, yes "even better than the film". Solitaire seems more believable, Mr Big is genuinely menacing, and the diving sequence has some real thrills.

Take it as a period piece, and you'll enjoy Bond develop in his second story.

Racist, dated, boring - Rated 1/5
The above pretty much sums it up really, very dissapointed.

Makes me wonder when all the literary reviewers who are currently fawning over 'devil may care' atually last read a 'real' bond book. 'Time this franchise was consigned to the past