Very cool to see a book thread, you are right that they don't get discussed enough.
The original Bond books are all free for Kindle Unlimited right now, so I decided to take a crack at them - I'm right in the middle of Ian Fleming's From Russia With Love. It's much better overall than Casino Royale, which is what I started with, and it isn't the typical Bond formula. The first third just follows Bond's Russian nemesis (I'm guessing), a Soviet executioner who just loves killing people, which is kind of a departure from the typical arc of Bond minding his own business --> problem over there with some crazy evil genius --> Bond saves the day and seduces a few ladies on the way. FRWL has a great setup, and makes me want to know what's about to go down.
After this, I'm going to see the movie, and then I'm going to get through more of a massive Ray Bradbury omnibus that's sitting on my shelf only about a third of the way read.
Also, to you guys who read War and Peace, I finished it a few months ago also, and wow, definitely worth reading. It kind of struck me while reading it that, because it follows different characters and switches points of view every 5-20 pages, it's basically paced like a period cable show in book form - if HBO did it right, it would be a hell of a show.
The original Bond books are all free for Kindle Unlimited right now, so I decided to take a crack at them - I'm right in the middle of Ian Fleming's From Russia With Love. It's much better overall than Casino Royale, which is what I started with, and it isn't the typical Bond formula. The first third just follows Bond's Russian nemesis (I'm guessing), a Soviet executioner who just loves killing people, which is kind of a departure from the typical arc of Bond minding his own business --> problem over there with some crazy evil genius --> Bond saves the day and seduces a few ladies on the way. FRWL has a great setup, and makes me want to know what's about to go down.
After this, I'm going to see the movie, and then I'm going to get through more of a massive Ray Bradbury omnibus that's sitting on my shelf only about a third of the way read.
Also, to you guys who read War and Peace, I finished it a few months ago also, and wow, definitely worth reading. It kind of struck me while reading it that, because it follows different characters and switches points of view every 5-20 pages, it's basically paced like a period cable show in book form - if HBO did it right, it would be a hell of a show.