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A review by a_writer_guy
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
3.0
The first book in the series. It's always a difficult task to read a book after you've seen the movie, or movies in the case of Mr. Bond. I can almost never shake the image of one of the actors as the character in the book. That being said, I'll probably always picture Daniel Craig as James Bond as I read. Not because he's my favorite Bond, but because he's the most recent.
This book was written in the 60's so you have to take a lot of it with a grain of salt. There is a lot of brash chauvinism throughout, but that just how James Bond is, he's a womanizer. If you read this thinking you're getting something other than that, you will be extremely disappointed.
I don't remember the movie Casino Royale very well, so I don't know how it holds up to the book, but I wasn't a fan of the movie, and I liked the book. It was a little slow in parts, and some of it was a little hard to identify with given the time it took place and it being British, but overall it was a pretty fun, quick read.
This book was written in the 60's so you have to take a lot of it with a grain of salt. There is a lot of brash chauvinism throughout, but that just how James Bond is, he's a womanizer. If you read this thinking you're getting something other than that, you will be extremely disappointed.
I don't remember the movie Casino Royale very well, so I don't know how it holds up to the book, but I wasn't a fan of the movie, and I liked the book. It was a little slow in parts, and some of it was a little hard to identify with given the time it took place and it being British, but overall it was a pretty fun, quick read.