Goldfinger Audiobook

" Although the plot is improbable, the figure of Goldfinger is so well drawn and interesting that one is drawn into the story. Hugh Bonneville provides a great voice performance. "

" wow, james bond really is a dinosaur. hates koreans, lesbians, suffrage. it just starts to grate after a while. "

" probably better if you have never seen a 007 movie first. bond is never as witty, charming or suave in any of fleming's books as in the connery movies (any bond flick without connery doesn't count). "

" Limited to what was available in Thailand, and looking for something more "beachy" than what I already had, I gave James Bond a whirl. He's a racist prick, but it's pretty entertaining. And much more well-written than I expected. Favorite line: "Poor little bitch." That's James talking about a dead girl. Oh shit, I almost forgot, there's a mob boss who is forced to shave every four hours because of "that Italian swarthiness." And Koreans are "less than human." "

" What did I learn from this book? James Bond is a sexist alcoholic? Yes. James Bond is prone to flights of romantic fancy? Yes. James Bond has really weird thoughts about heaven when he's coming around after being drugged? Yes. The book gave me tons of insight into Bond as a character, but that character I ended up not liking much. I'm impressed by his ability to drink Bourbon at noon and still save the lives of 60,000 Kentuckians by taping a secret message to the underside of an airplane toilet. Not to mention, "curing" Pussy Galore of her lesbianism just by being the handsome, macho jerk he his. Bravo, James. "

" Fun read! The book was definitely written many years ago, as evidenced by the treatment of Pussy Galore, but I doubt anyone reads or watches James Bond for a sensitive social commentary. It was a fast-paced, somewhat whimsical tale, quite entertaining. "

" The James Bond movies are over-the-top bullshit, but the everyday gentleness of the original books are far more appealing. James plays canasta, James plays golf. He goes for a drive through France. It's like a Wodehouse thriller. Lovely stuff. "

" I read these books when I was in middleschool and fell in love. They're like trashy romance novels for action fans. "

" Of course, to really appreciate 007 stories, one has to imagine themselves as pubescent, repressed and living in the 60's. "

" Enjoyable, if tedious at some points. I'm not a huge fan of thrillers. "

" "No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die!" "

" must read for bond fans! "

" Goldfinger is one of my favorite Bond movies. However not my fav book. It was full of logic holes, crazy ideas, and the passing was terrible. Lots of more obvious and angry racism and strange ideas about Lesbians and Gays. All in all not his best work. "

" Wildly implausible even by Bond-book standards, but still worth reading for the now-classic characters this book introduced - some of the most memorable villains to grace the page. "

" It is action packed, has an exciting plot and the suspense is excellenly elicited. Very much enjoyed reading it. "

" Dr. No is 6th in the series, but was the first Bond movie, with Sean Connery and Ursula Andress. The book is in some ways very different from the movie, no radioactivity, for example. The escape sequence is pretty good, at least in its conception. "