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Book Reviews of From Russia with Love

From Russia with Love
From Russia with Love
Author: Ian Fleming
ISBN: 323635
Pages: 191
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Publisher: Signet
Book Type: Paperback
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Fleming's Bond books leaped into prominence in the early 1960s when it was reported that President John Kennedy enjoyed them as leisure reading. The Bond movies, of course, have been film behemoths for 50+ years.

If you are familiar only with the films, hosever, you're probably in for a disappointment with source material. I found this a truly dreadful book -- tedious, misogynistic, and utterly devoid of the sly campy humor of the movies. Fleming does have some skill at describing the exotic locales, but this is not a book I would have finished if it were not part of a reding challenge.