{"id":4634,"date":"2008-10-14T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4634"},"modified":"2018-10-31T21:14:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T02:14:14","slug":"book-report-the-man-with-the-golden-gun-by-ian-fleming-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/book-report-the-man-with-the-golden-gun-by-ian-fleming-1965\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Man With The Golden Gun by Ian Fleming (1965)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second book I&#8217;ve read recently that was set soon after the Cuban revolution, and Fleming didn&#8217;t think it would last (to the contrary, Brett Haliday <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/30\/book-report-the-careless-corpse-by-brett-halliday-1961\/\" target=\"_blank\">thought it might be a good idea<\/a>.)  These things strike me.<\/p>\n<p>This book deals with a post-brainwashing, post-trying-to-assassinate-M Bond unbrainwashed and assigned to kill a Caribbean hitter who used a goldern Colt .45 revolver and custom gold-loaded bullets.  Bond goes down there, infilitrates, and gets his man.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember how the Roger Moore Bond film of the same name worked, but I would guess it differed greatly from the book.  It&#8217;s a pretty good read, an artifact of the times and of the medium (pseudo-pulp spy fiction, the good stuff before the epic, moral-grey-area stuff came on).<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=014200328X&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second book I&#8217;ve read recently that was set soon after the Cuban revolution, and Fleming didn&#8217;t think it would last (to the contrary, Brett Haliday thought it might be a good idea.) These things strike me. This book deals with a post-brainwashing, post-trying-to-assassinate-M Bond unbrainwashed and assigned to kill a Caribbean hitter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23801,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions\/23801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}