Khadaji's Whatcha Readin' - January 2014

[Max_Torque]

@Shodan

I listened to Casino Royale, the first Bond book, on audiobooks on YouTube while walking the dog. Interesting, but now I am working thru From Russia With Love and I am coming to the conclusion that Bond is an idiot. Why does he go tearing off after Vesper Lynd when she is kidnapped alone? Call Rene Mathis and get the whole French security service to help him. Instead he gets captured and beat in the nuts. And Le Chiffre just happens to have spike strips in his car to cause Bond to crash his car, but not get killed.

I can second this. Back in October, I had this observation:

@MaxTorque

I’m working my way through Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels in publication order. Right now I’m on For Your Eyes Only. And I’ve gotta say, so far, the Bond of the books is way, way luckier than the Bond of the movies. In the books he scrapes by far too often on his frequent supernatural luck. It’s kinda disappointing after knowing the “nobody does it better” Bond for so long.