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Live and let die ian fleming book6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Big is an African-American man with a heart condition that gives him a gray complexion. ![]() In a similar fashion, the Bond girl in this novel has her name only given once, and is mostly only known as Solitaire. Rarely is a Bond villain such a caricature. The villain of the novel is a man known throughout most of the novel as Mr. Bond is sent as the Secret Service agent, and teams up with Felix Leiter from the previous novel, “Casino Royale” of the CIA. The whole novel hinges on gold from England being smuggled from Jamaica through Florida to Harlem. The main problem it suffers from, however, is a modern day sense of propriety and sensibility. When Fleming tries to do too much, the story often suffers for it, so it is probably better that it wasn’t more intricate, but Live and Let Die lacks some of the sparkle that other novels have. In many ways, it is quite clever, and in other, it is quite simplistic. ![]() This early Bond novel has some interesting points that make it both problematic and fun. ![]()
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