I always loved Ian Fleming's prose. I read all the Bond books when I was a teen and then several more times as an adult. It's lovely to hear the books narrated so well. Thank you for making them available.
I have been reading for the first time. The narrations are great and I was blown away by the energy of Fleming's prose, fantastic descriptive writing and humor.
"It was a room-shaped room, with furniture-shaped furniture... " I love this in comparison to the heavy detail elsewhere. Fantastic book with a great reader!
Thank you for the reading. I am listening it by parts so I make some marks here tu recap it chapter 2 13:24 thank you As I read more I will edit here this note
60 cigarettes a day plus half bottle of Whisky ?! Fleming passed away tragically early ( in his late 50s ) thanks to that combination. A short life but a merry one...
The main plot-hole is the sheer impossibility of M sending Bond to the very place that the bombs are hidden and then Bond meeting the girlfriend of Largo almost as soon as he arrives! One of the later novels and Fleming was clearly struggling to link the plot lines together.
The real James Bond: the very plausible, cold-blooded, very intelligent assassin that strongly resembles Hoagey Carmichael with the drooping lock of black hair. Everyone else is just an imposter. Ian Flemings "Thunderball" is an excellent novel 💙💚
The novel was based on a screenplay that was intended to be the first film. Fleming didn't create SPECTRE - the co- writers did. Thankfully. Fleming , being a committed anti- communist, would have kept using Russia as the villain in every novel!
The narration is great UNTIL it gets to foreign accents.....the attempt at the indeterminate American one is bad (and pointless) enough - the Caribbean ones are downright awful, bordering on offensive! I imagine he 'dragged up' up in the studio when switching into higher-pitched mode for the female characters, probably sat in a tux for the majority of the reading, which then obviously begs the question as to whether he 'blacked up' or not when butchering the islanders speech......😄
@akielbasa Well, considering they were written at a time when attitudes were clearly different to today, one can't. But the narrator doesn't have to 'colour' the characters in such a manner. I can hear a 'Carribean' accent in my head without him needlessly - and offensively to some - butchering it
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I always loved Ian Fleming's prose. I read all the Bond books when I was a teen and then several more times as an adult. It's lovely to hear the books narrated so well. Thank you for making them available.
I have been reading for the first time. The narrations are great and I was blown away by the energy of Fleming's prose, fantastic descriptive writing and humor.
M's obsession w/health fads, Bond's rage, the opening is hilariously amusing.
"It was a room-shaped room, with furniture-shaped furniture... " I love this in comparison to the heavy detail elsewhere. Fantastic book with a great reader!
Chapter 1 - 'Take It Easy, Mr Bond' - 0:04
Chapter 2 - Shrublands - 13:22
Chapter 3 - The Rack - 32:55
Chapter 4 - Tea and Animosity - 45:18
Chapter 5 - SPECTRE - 1:06:56
Chapter 6 - Violet-Scented Breath - 1:26:55
Chapter 7 - 'Fasten Your Lap-Strap' - 1:53:00
Chapter 8 - 'Big Fleas Have Little Fleas...' - 2:10:30
Chapter 9 - Multiple Requiem - 2:31:29
Chapter 10 - The Disco Volante - 2:50:58
Chapter 11 - Domino - 3:18:25
Chapter 12 - The Man from the CIA - 3:38:08
Chapter 13 - 'My Name Is Emilio Largo' - 3:56:39
Chapter 14 - Sour Martinis - 4:14:46
Chapter 15 - Cardboard Hero - 4:32:42
Chapter 16 - Swimming the Gauntlet - 4:59:27
Chapter 17 - The Red-Eyed Catacomb - 5:16:08
Chapter 18 - How to Eat a Girl - 5:42:07
Chapter 19 - When the Kissing Stopped - 5:57:43
Chapter 20 - Time for Decision - 6:15:48
Chapter 21 - Very Softly, Very Slowly - 6:29:19
Chapter 22 - The Shadower - 6:46:50
Chapter 23 - Naked Warfare - 7:04:16
Chapter 24 - 'Take It Easy, Mr Bond' - 7:26:39
An excellent James Bond Thriller I can't wait to hear more❤
Yes!! This is the best. So grateful for these downloads 👏🏻
My favourite Bond book, and film!
M is a visionary when it comes to food.
Excellent audiobook thanks 😊 super thriller
Thanks for another great upload
The exposition in the spectre chapter is all time great.
Brilliant thank you.
Chapter 4. 45:20
Chapter 5. 1:06:58
Chapter 6. 1:26:56
Chapter 7. 1:53:00
Chapter 8. 2:10:30
Chapter 9. 2:31:30
Chapter 10. 2:50:57
Chapter 11. 3:18:26
Chapter 12. 3:38:09
Chapter 13. 3:56:38
Chapter 14. 4:14:44
Chapter 15. 4:32:42
Chapter 16. 4:59:26
Chapter 17. 5:16:10
Chapter 18. 5:42:08
Chapter 19. 5:57:44
Chapter 20. 6:15:50
Chapter 21. 6:29:19
Chapter 22. 6:46:50
Chapter 23. 7:04:16
Chapter 24. 7:26:40
That was great! Thanks
Interesting to hear M promoting the benefits of natural health remedies...
Thank you for the reading.
I am listening it by parts so I make some marks here tu recap it
chapter 2 13:24
thank you
As I read more I will edit here this note
I’m slowing the speed to .075% to hear it clearly it must be a British thing it works for me. Thanks.
60 cigarettes a day plus half bottle of Whisky ?! Fleming passed away tragically
early ( in his late 50s ) thanks to that combination. A short life but a merry one...
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That's why I loved Connery' s looks in DAF. The look of a man slightly gone to seed - unlike Craig's buffed look in SKYFALL
But in SPECTRE- Craig fails his physical- Bond still has a buff gym toned physique
The main plot-hole is the sheer impossibility of M sending Bond to the very place that the bombs are hidden and then Bond meeting the girlfriend of Largo almost as soon as he arrives!
One of the later novels and Fleming was clearly struggling to link the plot lines together.
Yeah . Weakest part of the story are the implausable and incredible coincidence
This is definitely one of the weaker books, I kind of hate it. Even The Spy Who Loved Me is better than this one.
The real James Bond: the very plausible, cold-blooded, very intelligent assassin that strongly resembles Hoagey Carmichael with the drooping lock of black hair. Everyone else is just an imposter. Ian Flemings "Thunderball" is an excellent novel 💙💚
Good stuff
Bond's Aquatic Adventure
BP 160/90. Can’t believe he didn’t have a stroke.
5:30:55. One demonstration of how much a word can completely change its meaning in, what, 30 years?
3:38:00 Bond smiled. He said "bitch."
Laughing at a Walther PPK 7.62mm shot being called so loud😂
26:46
4:45:19
5:31:56
6:20:44
7:06:24
Not a bear it's a man. Bad guy.
Simple rules for dealing with bears:
If it black, fight back.
If it’s brown, make it drown.
Why is he drowning a bear in the thumbnail.
It apears to be another scuba diver to me
Hahaha. That's another diver.
He has a licence to kill anything.
@@JckSwanYes. 😅
Grin and bear 🐻 it 😮😊
03:24:00 Not, "My Disco Volante." M(otor) Y(acht) Disco Volante.
Ouch
The part where he's talking about how women drive
Bond a Veggie and Natural Yoghurt eater. Oooh Bond should be called BIND . Lol
3:00:03
3:58:00
The novel was based on a screenplay that was intended to be the first film. Fleming didn't create SPECTRE - the co- writers did. Thankfully. Fleming , being a committed anti- communist, would have kept using Russia as the villain in every novel!
35:38
Do you have Octopussy & the living daylights?
I like Domino in the original book, more like Fiona in the film: fiery and independent (don't like the submissive one in the film)
The narration is great UNTIL it gets to foreign accents.....the attempt at the indeterminate American one is bad (and pointless) enough - the Caribbean ones are downright awful, bordering on offensive! I imagine he 'dragged up' up in the studio when switching into higher-pitched mode for the female characters, probably sat in a tux for the majority of the reading, which then obviously begs the question as to whether he 'blacked up' or not when butchering the islanders speech......😄
How can you worry about "offensive" while listening to a bond book😉
@akielbasa Well, considering they were written at a time when attitudes were clearly different to today, one can't.
But the narrator doesn't have to 'colour' the characters in such a manner. I can hear a 'Carribean' accent in my head without him needlessly - and offensively to some - butchering it
audiobooks suck!!
Chapter 2. 13:22
Chapter 3. 32:55
Chapter 4. 45:18
Chapter 5. 1:06:56
Chapter 6. 1:26:55
Chapter 7. 1:53:00
Chapter 8. 2:10:30
Chapter 9. 2:31:29
Chapter 10. 2:50:58
Chapter 11. 3:18:25
Chapter 12. 3:38:08
Chapter 13. 3:56:39
Chapter 14. 4:14:46
Chapter 15. 4:32:42
Chapter 16. 4:59:27
Chapter 17. 5:16:08
Chapter 18. 5:42:07
Chapter 19. 5:57:43
Chapter 20. 6:15:48
Chapter 21. 6:29:19
Chapter 22. 6:46:50
Chapter 23. 7:04:16
Chapter 24. 7:26:39
4:39:00
3:39:06
4:58:36
2:32:43