 Live & Let Die: Reviews and Ratings |
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Admiral Group: The Admiralty Enlisted: 27 January 2001 From: United Kingdom  |
10 May 2003 - 13:00
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 This thread is intended for reviews and ratings of Live & Let Die by members of the The Blades Library Book Club here. Please do not reply directly to reviews in this thread, rather start a new thread to ask questions or post comments about reviews.   BOND IS BACK. SHIRLEY BASSEY FOR BOND 22. |
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 15 August 2002 From: Manhattan, KS |
12 May 2003 - 19:27
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I read this one fairly recently. It's a pretty good book.
Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.
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Sub-Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 20 February 2003 From: Rock Hill, SC |
12 May 2003 - 21:15
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Just finished LALD for the first time. Only FYEO left to read of the Fleming Bond work. LALD is a thrill-ride of a novel. Later, I'll post a better review, but right now, all I can say about the book is: wow.
  "Dinner? I know the best place in town." |
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 15 August 2002 From: Manhattan, KS |
13 May 2003 - 13:58
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Live and Let Die is a terrific view of life in the USA in 1954. It's interesting to read in that aspect. One gets an idea of how things were back then by Fleming's narrative. Interesting to read the unedited version if I could find it. I've always heard about the communist conspiracy stuff in other things, but to read it in a Bond book would be interesting to say the least.
Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.
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Sub-Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 2 March 2003 From: Melbourne, Australia |
14 May 2003 - 10:08
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I read this a while ago I and really enjoyed this Fleming novel.
I rate it 4 stars out of five, I think it's really good. |
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Sub-Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 12 March 2003 From: France |
14 May 2003 - 21:56
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For me LALD is one of the best Fleming books. I read it a long time ago like all the Fleming's books and I always find it amazing.
One of my favourite really!! Whisper of love, whisper of hate
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Sub-Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 27 August 2002 |
21 June 2003 - 20:14
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What got me is how well the book is written.
Lovely sport.
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York |
3 July 2003 - 20:35
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This is one of my favorite Ian fleming books. I think the action and locations are wonderful. I've read it about five or six times. Also, contains one of my favorite literary villains, Mr. Big. Solitare is nice too.
Ian Fleming created a great genre in Casino Royale, but he mastered it in Live And Let Die.  ~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other ♦ D of the CBn Four CommanderBond.net - Where All Other James Bond Sites End... This One Begins Are You Ready To Go? |
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Sub-Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 26 September 2002 From: Glendale, CA |
6 July 2003 - 21:18
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It's a stunning book, with some great action set pieces.
Neil "Tell me, does the toppling of American missiles really compensate for having no hands?"
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Lt. Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 30 December 2002 From: The City That Never Sleeps |
10 July 2003 - 02:17
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5/5. Tense and thrilling, a great read. A Fleming Masterpiece.
"Give our guests five minutes to leave... or throw them overboard."
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Lt. Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 27 June 2003 |
10 July 2003 - 02:23
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This is one of Fleming's best without a doubt. It's nice to see Bond in America, more specifically Harlem during it's growth period. The action scenes are as exciting as they come. A very well written and fast read.
 "Just surviving, Mr. Chang. Just surviving." T of the CBn Fab Four |
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Lt. Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 30 December 2002 From: The City That Never Sleeps |
10 July 2003 - 02:58
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The end scenes when Bond and Solitaire are being dragged through the water is probobly the most tense scene that I have ever read.
"Give our guests five minutes to leave... or throw them overboard."
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Lt. Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 10 November 2002 From: Montreal, Canada |
28 July 2003 - 16:12
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I wonder why they showed up in the FYEO movie....?  Daniel no longer uses this account. |
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Sub-Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 1 December 2002 From: Portsmouth, Uk. |
14 August 2003 - 07:22
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I quite enjoyed this book, quite a bit of emotion in it, for Bond and the reader.
I especially felt sorry for that conductor that be-friened Bond on the train. Pfft.
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Sub-Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 15 July 2003 |
17 August 2003 - 23:45
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I'm enjoying LALD. My question is: Who is the outrageous looking beauty that modeled for the cover of the book [holding the two playing cards over her pefectly formed breasts]?
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