James Bond

Next author on my Good Reads Book List 1970-2020 stats at 13 books. I started reading Ian Fleming’s James Bond series as a teenager in the 60’s and then reread those early ones along with a lot more in the early 1970’s while in the Navy. James Bond books were frequently traded throughout the ship while on long cruises along with Louis L’Amour westerns and Edgar Rice Burroughs adventures.

I remember as a teenager picking up James Bond books off a book rack at the drug store down the street. I was reading some of these books in the mid 1960's and a few more in the early 1970's. None since.

Of course part of the allure of reading the books was the movies showing at the time and in particular Sean Connery.  I think I saw every Bond movie in the 60's as they were released. 

The first one Dr. No was released in 1962 and I saw it up the street at our neighborhood theater.

Books in the series I read.

• From Russia With Love
• Dr. No
• Casino Royale
• Goldfinger
• Thunderball
• Diamonds Are Forever
• Live and Let Die
• Moonraker
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service
• The Spy Who Loved Me
• The Man With The Golden Gun
• For Your Eyes Only
• You Only Live Twice