Literary 007 Reviewed: Ian Fleming's 'Goldfinger'

I've always enjoyed Goldfinger, though these reviews do an excellent job of pointing up its many admitted flaws--including the fact that it has more plausibility problems than any three of his other books combined. And there's the "relaxed" narrative, including the stretch when Bond dines with Goldfinger, which isn't very interesting and does virtually nothing to advance the story.

But it does have three memorable characters in Goldfinger, Pussy, and Oddjob, and the "thematic purity" of Godfinger's obsession with gold provides a kind of unity (at least to me) that helps bind the concept together. And it has, bar none, the greatest description of a meal that I have ever read--the stone crab meal in Miami.

Thanks, reviewers--well done!

#1 Qwerty

#2 MajorB