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Octopussy and The Living Daylights is a short story collection by Ian Fleming. It was collected and published after Fleming's death. The book is very short and only contains four stories. "Octopussy" Is a story about a former British officer who is now in retirement. All seems to be well until a man named Bond shows up and exposes an old crime. "The Living Daylights" has Bond using his skills as a sniper to protect a spy who is trying to escape from East Berlin. In "Property of a Lady" Bond has to trap a mole inside the office. Finally in "007 in New York" Bond spends an evening in the Big Apple.

The stories are short and are not exactly his best work. Fleming was a great writer of novels. His novels were never long, almost all coming in at under 200 pages. Somehow that format better fits his style. "Octopussy" is an interesting morality tale of murder and greed. "The Living Daylights" is an interesting story because it shows Bond at odds with his duties as a 00 agent. The other two stories are below par for Fleming's work. Overall the two title stories are alright. If you want to own all of Fleming's Bond Books then you will need to get this book. Don't make it your first Bond book though.


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The Spy Who Loved Me A James Bond Novel Ian Fleming Books Reviews

As I have been reading through all the Bond books on my , I wondered if there was an error... that put the wrong book under this title, author and book cover. It started that different from all the previous Bond books. It is all from the perspective of the “Bond girl”. Not that it wasn’t interesting, but it takes awhile to get to James. And since it is set in upper state New York, this made it also all the more unusual. Not my favorite, but good nonetheless. I’ve watched Fleming’s style and writing ability improve since Casino Royale. This was well written, just a bit different.
While this certainly wasn't my favorite Bond novel, I came away from reading it with renewed respect for Ian Fleming as an artist. Once an author--and perhaps more importantly, a character--becomes well-established, it can become very easy to fall into the rut of familiar patterns. Play it safe, always give the readers exactly what they want. Don't take risks.

That wasn't Fleming. And in "The Spy Who Loved Me", he gives readers his most unusual take on the Bond mythos ever. I can respect that, even if I might prefer the more traditional stakes.

Well done.
The people giving this book a poor review (1-star? Really?) clearly aren't open to experimentation in writing. After the prior nine novels, where Bond is troubled, reckless, but ultimately an unstoppable force to the people around him, it's interesting to read a novel from someone else's perspective to see just how people view him. It's like reading a first hand account of someone who meets this whirlwind of a human, and it's fantastic. The first third of the novel functions as way to create an attachment to a regular young woman who will one day be on a collision course with 007. The second act raises the stakes and introduces the palpable threat of two psychotic thugs that pose a plausible threat to her (and Bond, for anyone who pays attention to the type of mortal danger these men represent). The third act introduces Bond in a very mythological sort of way, as he appears under cover of night to even the odds. Anyone who's read Bond novels before knows that even small time thugs are a threat to him because he isn't as cartoonishly calm and immortal as he is in the films. He's just more clever and better trained than others. Having low level crooks, rather than SPECTRE elite, be the foil makes sense because they would be to this woman, and Bond is uniquely suited to intervene. Her story is rather cliché, but nothing that wouldn't compose the plot of an indie or foreign romance story, and it's more impressive that it came from Fleming, who by this point had already devolved from a fairly progressive writer in the 50s to a downright misogynistic one in the 60s. Bond's still a white knight figure, and fairly two-dimensional here, but at least it makes sense being from someone else's perspective. In the handful of books prior, he went from being a complex character with very real and respectable views of women and the world around him, but by the 60s, he had become the woman smacking clown that appears in the films. The nature of the story redeems Fleming somewhat, in that he at least attempted to tell a woman's story where she wasn't just an object to be bedded, even if he falls back on his own trope of her ending up a (nigh) rape victim. Overall, it's a jarring, but welcome experience that is served tremendously by being read after all the prior novels build the myth that is literally displayed before this woman's eyes.
Octopussy and The Living Daylights is a short story collection by Ian Fleming. It was collected and published after Fleming's death. The book is very short and only contains four stories. "Octopussy" Is a story about a former British officer who is now in retirement. All seems to be well until a man named Bond shows up and exposes an old crime. "The Living Daylights" has Bond using his skills as a sniper to protect a spy who is trying to escape from East Berlin. In "Property of a Lady" Bond has to trap a mole inside the office. Finally in "007 in New York" Bond spends an evening in the Big Apple.

The stories are short and are not exactly his best work. Fleming was a great writer of novels. His novels were never long, almost all coming in at under 200 pages. Somehow that format better fits his style. "Octopussy" is an interesting morality tale of murder and greed. "The Living Daylights" is an interesting story because it shows Bond at odds with his duties as a 00 agent. The other two stories are below par for Fleming's work. Overall the two title stories are alright. If you want to own all of Fleming's Bond Books then you will need to get this book. Don't make it your first Bond book though.