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Michael A. Arbib and James J. Bonaiuto
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Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas, Edmund Keeley and Karen van Dyck
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Henry James, Deborah Esch and Jonathan Warren
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David McK (3251 KP) rated Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
You used to say live and let live
(you know you did you know you die you know you did)
But in this ever changing world in which we live in
Makes you give in and cry ...
Live and let die ..."
(cue guitar riff)
With that out of the way - Paul McCartney and Wings, later covered by Guns 'N Roses - Live and Let Die is the second James Bond book by Ian Fleming, but the eighth film in the series, and the first to star Roger Moore in the lead role.
And reading it with contemporary eyes, boy has it aged. Quite different than the movie - although the key elements (vodoo, Baron Samedi, Solitaire, American southwest setting) are intact, it can also be quite uncomfortable reading this with modern sensibilities, particularly in how Flemings (and Bond) treats the female characters, and in how the Harlem culture and denizens are portrayed.
Allowances must be made, I suppose, for the time period in which it was written ...
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Goldfinger (1964)
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