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Correct order for Fleming Novels


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#1 Mr Trump

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Posted 06 December 2002 - 09:05 PM

Could somebody help me out here? My brother has just started reading Casino Royale and is loving it so much he wants to go through all of the original books. Now I currently only have 3 of them - Casino Royale, LIve and Let Die & Moonraker and I believe these to be the first 3 published books. I would be extremely grateful if one of you better informed dudes could post a full chronological list of Flemings Bond books or a link to a good site to find this. My thinking is that my bro might by the rest of the books so that I can read them without using my own hard earned dosh!!!

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Posted 06 December 2002 - 09:14 PM

Here is a list of the Fleming Bonds I drew up for my own collection/reference purposes. I just started reading them myself.

James Bond 007 by Ian Fleming

In order published; novels except as noted:

1. Casino Royale (1953)
2. Live and Let Die (1954)
3 Moonraker (1955)
4. Diamonds Are Forever (1956)
5. From Russia With Love (1957)
6. Dr. No (1958)
7. Goldfinger (1959)
8. For Your Eyes Only (1960) 5-story collection includes:

#3 Mr Trump

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Posted 06 December 2002 - 09:22 PM

Thanks for that Station, thats superp. I knew that someone on the site would be able to help but I wasn't expecting a reply so quickly. Thats some seriously quick typing!!! I've only read the first 2 so far but needless to say I loved them. How far have you got into the collection?

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Posted 06 December 2002 - 11:53 PM

I've only read Casino Royale and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I do plan to get LALD and then after I've finished that get MR etc. until I've read them all.

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Posted 07 December 2002 - 01:25 AM

Here is a cronological list of the novels. It includes the short stories that are set between the novels.
Casino Royale
Live and Let Die
Moonraker
Diamonds are Forever
From Russia with Love
Dr. No
Quantum of Solance
From a View to a Kill
Goldfinger
For Your Eyes Only
The Hildebrand Rarity
OO7 in New York
Risico
Thunderball
Octopussy
The Living Daylights
The Spy who Loved Me
The Property of a Lady
On Her Majesty's Secrete Service
You Only Live Twice
The Man with the Golden Gun

From a View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only, Quantum of Solace, Risico, and the Hildabrand Rarity are all located in the For Your Eyes Only book

007 in New York is located in Thrilling Cities. This is a collection of travel essays the Fleming wrote for the Sunday Times

Octopussy, The Living Daylights, and The Property of a Lady are contained in the Paperback version of Octopussy. (The hardcover does not contain The Property of a Lady.)

All this information comes from http://www.speakeasy...rd/BONDLIT1.HTM

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Posted 07 December 2002 - 01:44 AM

Interesting Literary 007 website. I wish the webmaster at that site went into greater detail about his story placement methods than simply saying he got his info from the stories themselves and has been working on his chronology for a long time. I wonder if the chronicler got any of his timeline from Pearson's "fictional biography" of James Bond, which I recently ordered used from an Amazon bookseller. I'm not sure if I should read the bio before I work my way through the Fleming books, though!

I recently finished Casino Royale and am looking forward to reading LALD this weekend.

Note my post about the Penquin Classics edition collecting FRWL, DN, and GF, if you want those in a handy volume.

Ian

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Posted 16 December 2002 - 10:13 PM

Don't read the biography first as it will give away the plots to the unread novels. Do read it afterwards though. It is good, in my opinion.