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Product Description Many of Ian Flemings short stories have been the inspiration for the extremely successful James Bond film franchise, and included in this collection are such stories as Octopussy, The Living Daylights, and For Your Eyes Only. The title story, Quantum of Solace, lends its name to the upcoming James Bond film, slated to release in Fall 2008. This collection will be published to coincide with the films release, as well as to continue Penguins centenary celebrations of Flemings birth.
Quantum Of SolaceNovember 24, 2008 This is a wonderful addtion to my James Bond collection. These complete short stories of Ian Flemings are great! Worth every penny! Every true Bond fan should read all nine of them.... because we know that no one can do it better than James Bond!
BOND IN SHORTNovember 12, 2008 This collection of Ian Fleming short stories is a must have for any Bond fan. I have been discovering Fleming since the release of the film "Casino Royale" and have found his books to be not only thrilling but also very well written. His prose is as lean, hard and ruthless as James Bond himself. He is a joy to read.
Here in "Quantum of Solace" I was not disappointed. All the stories are wonderful and it is amazing to see how Fleming can pack so much drama and excitement into a few pages just as he does in his full-length novels.
Among the best short stories, at least my favorites are;
"Risico" has a wonderful Roman setting and a surprise villain, just so much fun.
"Quantum of Solace" is an incredible tale of the death of love told over cocktails.
"View To A Kill", Catapults the reader into a trill ride which is very cinematic and a great story.
"Property of a Lady" shows the cool everyday aspect of what being a Secret Service agent is about.
"The Living Daylights". Here the cold winter cityscape of cold war Berlin is wonderfully described and a little romance too.
And of special note you can find a scrumptious recipe for scrambled eggs in "007 In New York" (The character of Solange in the film of Casino Royale seems to have come from this story)
All the stories are wonderful, and this is a must have for any Bond fan. It is fascinating to pick out scenes from the stories that have ended up being incorporated into various films in the franchise, some intact with their stories titles and some buried into a plot for a film not related to the title. Such is the case with "Risico". You will have fun just as I did in the "Ah ha" moment of realization on this point.
So Bond is back in the movies now in a bigger way than ever before thanks to the reinvention of the franchise and to Daniel Craig who is by far the nearest to Bond as he appears in the books. And here in "Quantum of Solace" you have the opportunity to enter into his world by way of mere vignettes where you will find no solace for James Bond but a lot of adventure fun, and fine writing.
Nice compilationNovember 11, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really just got this to get the very short story 007 in New York, as it was not readily available anywhere else. I have listened to the rest on CD books from the library. But this is a nicely put together compilation with all the Bond short stories, and there are quite a few. A good thing to have on hand for any Bond fan.
Better than everOctober 17, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Absolutely love the new format of the whole James Bond series of books. Wonderful coloring and illustrations, unique size make these instant collector items to update the yellowed, dog-eared versions many of us have.
The contents of this bookOctober 11, 2008 10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a collection of all of the nine short stories about James Bond which were written by the late Ian Fleming.
(Fleming, of course, created the character of James Bond and was the author of the books which became the basis for all the James Bond movies. In addition to the short stories, Fleming wrote twelve novels about Bond.)
Over the years, these short stories have been kept in print in two collections: _For Your Eyes Only_, with five stories; and _Octopussy and The Living Daylights_, with four.
Now, for the first time ever, every one of the nine stories have been collected in a single volume, _Quantum of Solace_, which makes owning all these stories more convenient and economical.
That's the good news.
The not-so-good news is that the publisher here exercised no imagination, merely sandwiching together the contents of the two books.
Looking for a well-written foreword or afterword about these stories or their author? No such luck: The publisher includes no foreword or afterword at all.
The stories as earlier collected were not arranged according to the sequence of James Bond's life -- or to any other discernible plan. This new omnibus collection does absolutely nothing to fix that -- it just puts one unchanged collection behind another unchanged collection. This is disappointing, because we know from books by researchers like John Griswold (_Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies_) that there are sound ways to sequence the stories (and novels) by events in the life of James Bond.
Here are the contents of _Quantum of Solace_, as arranged in the book:
(Repeating the contents in sequence from _For Your Eyes Only_ ...)
"From a View to a Kill" "For Your Eyes Only" "Quantum of Solace" "Risico" "The Hildebrand Rarity"
(... and then repeating the contents of _Octopussy and The Living Daylights_)
"Octopussy" "The Property of a Lady" "The Living Daylights" "007 in New York"
