"From Russia With Love" and "Goldfinger" were fun reads, but "Diamonds Are Forever" as well as a few others, seem kind of juvenile and ham-handed to me. "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was good, for what it was.
2007-03-27 14:49:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Actually what he did with the craft was pretty breakthrough. He was among the first spy novelists to tap into global politics, discuss nuclear weapons, and pepper his books with exotic far off settings.
I think it's interesting that the industry that has been built on his novels has now produced more movies than there have been James Bond stories.
Little tidbit -- while working for the British and then the OSS (the forerunners to the CIA) in World War Two he actually trained along side Julia Child. Yes, THAT Julia Child, the culinary goddess. One of the naval operations he developed for the British was codenamed Goldfinger as well.
2007-03-27 15:11:11 · answer #1 · answered by Andy 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think that his memory has suffered at the hands of the one who took over when Ian died but there is only one Ian Fleming. I read somewhere that when he came up with Bond the person he based him on was quite like Hoagy Carmichael for those too young he wrote Stardust.
Give Earle Stanley Gardner a chance with his Perry Mason they are better than the TV show and I loved that.
2007-04-02 20:23:23 · answer #2 · answered by Bashful Reader 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember reading the books as a teenager but I would have to agree the writing was overrated. Remember most of the movies were just Fleming's titles and totally rewritten.
2007-03-27 15:01:21 · answer #3 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Was Ian Fleming's writings overrated...???
for christ's sake yes..but he is like jk rowlings...noone expects him to be freaking shakespeare.
we read Bond for it's elements ..not it's whole..we want the swagging male..we wanted the womanizer..we wanted the superspy..
Fleming was just filling in the blanks..using his knowledge gained in the war.
Sure not all his works are gems...I mean how many different ways can one have bond sitting at a gambeling table..
2007-03-27 15:04:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not - for the Cold War era, his spy novels were right on. Pax - C.
2007-03-27 14:52:18 · answer #5 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes they are - and they are absolutely nothing like the movies
2007-03-27 16:31:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
His writing is pretty lame, but his stories are great.
2007-03-27 14:55:34 · answer #7 · answered by deablanca 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think so
2007-04-04 11:23:17 · answer #8 · answered by shania3949 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋