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[Bond_Bishop]

Star Wars: Survivor's Quest - Timothy Zahn

[Qwerty]

"The Moving Finger" by Agatha Christie.

[Scottlee]

Trying to read Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz, but I'm struggling to keep interested having now reached chapter 7.

[Qwerty]

"The Clocks"

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

Just finished the Ninth Directive by Adam Hall...absolutely fantastic. I highly recommend it to everyone who is in the mood for a bit of Bond-style espionage with much more darkness and realism. It follows a British infiltration agent (Quiller) trying to outplay a Mongolian assassin whose plot is supposedly to take out a British envoy to Thailand. The focus is more on the actual mechanics of the trade and the action rather than politics. The continuity of it skips around a bit but all in all it makes for a quick and definitely worthwhile read.

Honestly I could barely put this down and the last chapter alone is worth reading it for. I just ordered two more from the Quiller series in fact and I advise everyone to do the same.

[spynovelfan]

Another convert!

The Quiller series is terrific, and I think many Bond fans would enjoy them. There's a thread about the series here. And there's a discussion group devoted to the series here.

[Monsieur B]

Ernest Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls for a grade 12 English Independent Student Project (a big project that's worth about 15% of our final mark), we choose a book and write two essays and do a 10 minute seminar on it.

I must say that this book is an excellent one, a long read but it fails to dissapoint.

[pgram]

To keep it a little bit Bond related, I think the Judge Dee series of detective novels are bondish, although the stories take place in ancient China. The way society is structured, villains are depicted and action is staged, creates a universe that,despite the superficial differences, is Bond universe underneath.

[Qwerty]

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007

[tdalton]

I haven't started reading it yet, but now that we finally have a new Bond, I think that I'm going to begin re-reading Casino Royale.

[Frostyak]

I agree with the post above, I can't wait to re-read Casino Royale. I can't believe it has been 3 years since I started buying the Penguin releases.

Here is the list of books I am currently in:

'Freakonomics'

'The Republic' (for school)

'Violence in War & Peace' (school book last semester, but a very good read)

- Chris

[spynovelfan]

THUNDERBALL by Ian Fleming

[terminus]

Lost City by Paul Kemprecios ; and slowly rereading Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray.

[Agent 76]

re-reading Casino Royale.

[Judo chop]

The CBN website. Duh.

Seriously though - I'm double fisting. I'm still making it through all the Flemming 007 novels in chronological order, so in one hand I'm halfway through Dr. No. (Amazing how much the movies stick to the books when they first came out and become unrecognizable in comparison by the end.)
In the other hand I'm catching up on my Narnia before December. Rawr!

[Judo chop]

And hopefully by the time I've finished the 007 series I'll have learned to spell 'Fleming' correctly.

[TortillaFactory]

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams.

[Byron]

I haven't started reading it yet, but now that we finally have a new Bond, I think that I'm going to begin re-reading Casino Royale.

Good idea TDalton, although i am going to wait until a couple of months before the film's release for that added freshness.

[K1Bond007]

..uhhh confession time.

For the past month I've been trying to read No Deals, Mr. Bond , but I just can't get into it. I started it last month sometime, got about half way and haven't really picked it up since. So far I've liked Gardner's books. They're obviously not as great as Fleming's, but they're not bad; however, I've already started to grow tired of them. Every book has someone that double crosses or even triple crosses and it's just turning me off.

So yeah..that's what I'm "reading". I may just skip it and move on.

[Qwerty]

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[Qwerty]

LOL. Keep at is K1...

[Byron]

Next up:

Live and let die.

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A few people have found this a slow, hard read but i loved it. It's my favourite Fleming novel.

A little patience will go a long way as the book gets better and better the further you read on.

[Qwerty]

Live And Let Die slow?! I find it to move at a very quick pace. Easily one of the best in the entire canon.

[tdalton]

Live And Let Die slow?! I find it to move at a very quick pace. Easily one of the best in the entire canon.

I have to admit that I was one of the ones that found LALD to be a slow read. For some reason, I just couldn't get into it at all.

[K1Bond007]

Live And Let Die slow?! I find it to move at a very quick pace. Easily one of the best in the entire canon.

I have to admit that I was one of the ones that found LALD to be a slow read. For some reason, I just couldn't get into it at all.

I was off and on with that book. It had some great parts, but there were a lot of slow parts too.

[Jaws0178]

At the moment, I am reading a student book that my High Priestess\my mother assigned to me for my Spell Casting class. Who knows. Maybe I should write a "B.B.B" (Bring Back Brosnan) spell. Wouldn't really be personal gain, would it? My last book I read was Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, which the end ticked me off to no end. To those who haven't read it, I won't ruin it. To those who have, I cried. No laughing!

Todd

[Qwerty]

Live And Let Die slow?! I find it to move at a very quick pace. Easily one of the best in the entire canon.

I have to admit that I was one of the ones that found LALD to be a slow read. For some reason, I just couldn't get into it at all.

I was off and on with that book. It had some great parts, but there were a lot of slow parts too.

I'm kind of surprised! I used to think by general consensus that it was one of the fastest paced novels.

[Brian Flagg]

Currently enjoying The Bounty, by Caroline Alexander. The book has clearly been a labor of love as it is chock full of original source material. A great introduction to the events on the HMS Bounty. I'm getting into a British Empire mood in a big way. After this, I plan on (finally) starting the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey-Maturin series.

[Johnboy007]

The Crucible - Arthur Miller.

Nifty metaphor and analogy. Well written (but I don't enjoy it). We've had to read articles of his from the New Yorker and New York Times. Those make him seem like one the biggest, pompus, most hypocritical jerks of all time.

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

Currently reading The Tango Briefing by Adam Hall.....yet another fine Quiller book.