Chapter 1 - The Secret Agent 0:08 Chapter 2 - Dossier for M 12:14 Chapter 3 - Number 007 26:58 Chapter 4 - L'Ennemi Écoute 32:44 Chapter 5 - The Girl from Headquarters 43:55 Chapter 6 - Two Men in Straw Hats 56:00 Chapter 7 - Rouge et Noir 1:02:43 Chapter 8 - Pink Lights and Champagne 1:17:20 Chapter 9 - The Game is Baccarat 1:27:00 Chapter 10 - The High Table 1:39:41 Chapter 11 - Moment of Truth 1:50:28 Chapter 12 - The Deadly Tube 2:01:08 Chapter 13 - 'A Whisper of Love, A Whisper of Hate' 2:11:45 Chapter 14 - 'La Vie en Rose?' 2:25:21 Chapter 15 - Black Hare and Gray Hound 2:32:18 Chapter 16 - The Crawling of the Skin 2:39:17 Chapter 17 - 'My Dear Boy' 2:50:19 Chapter 18 - A Crag-like Face 3:08:40 Chapter 19 - The White Tent 3:14:54 Chapter 20 - The Nature of Evil 3:26:00 Chapter 21 - Vesper 3:39:04 Chapter 22 - The Hastening Saloon 3:51:05 Chapter 23 - Tide of Passion 4:01:17 Chapter 24 - Fruit Défendu 4:08:35 Chapter 25 - 'Black-Patch' 4:15:22 Chapter 26 - 'Sleep Well, My Darling' 4:24:23 Chapter 27 - The Bleeding Heart 4:30:48
I read the original Fleming novels all the way through every few years. Love them. Love the fact that Fleming teaches the reader the rule of Baccarat 1:37:00. The reading by Simon Vance is perfect
My favorites were Moonraker, From Russia w/ Love & Dr. No. My least favorite was The Spy Who Loved Me. I've only read through them once. That's awesome you revisit them
The real James Bond is not Daniel Craig, Roger Moore, or even Sean Connery. It's the James Bond of the original Ian Fleming novels: the cold blooded, very plausible assassin with the dark rather cruel face, and black hair with the drooping strands over the eye...
There is no "real" James Bond. Flemming's novels became extremely popular, made him tons of money. Sean Connery"s fictional James Bond made EON Productions a ton of money. Wonder how much Connery affected book sales. Fleming knew !!!!!
Ian Fleming said James Bond looked like Hoagy Carmichael. Timothy Dalton is almost the spitting image of Hoagy Carmichael. The others aren't even close.
And yet... Ian Fleming came to appreciate Sean Connery as JB, to the degree that he gave him a Scottish heritage in on of the later novels. Sean Connery on the other hand was very complimentary towards Daniel Craig. He thought Craig got the danger aspect just right.
Chapter Casino Royale by Ian Fleming 00:07 Chapter 01 - The Secret Agent 12:13 Chapter 02 - Dossier for M 26:56 Chapter 03 - Number 007 32:40 Chapter 04 - L'Ennemi Ecoute Chapter 05 - The Girl from Headquarters Chapter 06 - Two Men in Straw Hats Chapter 07 - Rouge et Noir Chapter 08 - Pink Lights and Champagne
Thank you for posting this audiobook. For me, as a person with an interest in the Author and his own clandestine work during WW2 it was interesting to get into the mind of the creator of JB through his storytelling.
Much of Bond's character is based off Fleming himself. His views on women, skiing, aquatics, Jamaica, smoking. Although Fleming was never on the battle, he took inspiration from real life spies during WWII. Fun fact: From Russia w/ Love the novel is based off a plan Fleming hatched during WWII to steal the Enigma Machine. A German plane was to crash in the sea with British soldiers inside, attract a U-boat, then the British were to overtake the U-boat and steal the code. This plan never made it to action. But you can certainly see the similarities w/ the novel
Fleming gave us truly the quintessential ‘spy novel’. With a deeply flawed & complicated character in Bond. I wasn’t a fan of the decision when Daniel Craig was cast, but I was quite wrong. All of the actors brought different characteristics to their portrayal, but Craig in my opinion proved to be closer to the Bond I knew of the books than the others. Especially in terms of the darkness within Bond. Brosnan & of course Connery did as well only slightly lesser so.
I came here because after 3 days of covid bedrest I was getting tired of my other books and wanted an easy listening experience. Now I'm happy to find a very well written story, with a high level of intelligence in the observations. Except for the female Charakters. Eva Green's Vesper in the movie is so much more interesting.
Wow, never imagined the 007 books were this good. Glad I decided to do this on a whim. It’s oddly a lot more progressive than I had been led to believe.
@@xkai7546 Favorite book is How to Win Friends and Influence People…….Strongly recommend it. It’s a famous classic actually. Favorite film is Nobody Knows. It’s a Japanese masterpiece.
Its interesting how in reality Bond is just a guy working at an office, being told precisely what to do , he only comes on his own in execution of his orders
"Wet work" AKA assassinations are far less common in reality. The countries don't want the retaliatory bloodshed. Most of the time is reading, writing, observing, presentations, etc.
If memory serves me right, I think it took Bond halfway through Live & Let Die to kill someone (not counting his 2 kills to get double 0). The novels have more espionage and less "action" than the films
Enjoyed very much, great narration and finessed vocabulary. I tried another audio book just previously- an American novel and reader- and it was painfully cardboard and linguistically shallow. Books so often have a great alternate appeal vs films. Pretty vivid testimonial on the rampant chauvinism though!
The Usual Brit literary snobbery .! Henry James / Herman Melville / Philip Roth / John Updike / Mark Twain / Edgar Allen Poe ?? Never heard of any of them ? Or were they too " shallow " for your sophisticated taste ?
So very sad on how Bond realized for once, that he loved a woman- only to throw it all away because she had betrayed him, his country, and millions of other agents. His last words stuck a thorn in me
Yeah.. i guess its the way of saying "life goes on". For example in Majesty Secret Service, it has sad credits and then suddently BAM BAM BAM BAAAM BAM BAM BAM. "James Bond theme". Its very Bond like
Oh man, this theme gets better in the Moonraker book. At the beginning, he's totally devoted to his role in his service to his country, having affairs with 3 married women at once and spending all his money because he doesn't see himself living past 45. But at the end, he's fallen in love with the women he faced death with and seems ready for a commitment, to really build something with her, but she was already engaged.
I would like someone to make miniseries of the Bond books set in the original period using Ian Fleming stories as well as the VanLustbader and Gardner works.
While listening to this audiobook, i pictured Sean Connery as Bond (in his presence and style in Dr No) along with either Claire Bloom or Jean Simmons as Versper... Imagine Connery's Bond speaking on the phone with cold resolution after reading Vesper's goodbye letter...
Dalton apparently read all the novels before being on the big screen. You can certainly tell he tried to take this Bond from the novels and put it on film
@@audiobookgold6717 ok this puts him second on my list of favourite bonds first being Sean and it’s a damn shame he didn’t get more movies but at the same time I’m kinda thankful because they would’ve made a parody of him like they did of roger Moore I have nothing against the man but his version was AWFUL imo
@@mohammedashian8094 Dalton was actually first offered the role to play bond before they chose Lazenby for OHMSS. They approached him after seeing his performance in "The lion in winter" but he turned them down as he was only 21 at the time. They took a long time deciding before choosing Moore even though the producers were good friends with him as they didn't think he matched the character. When they did they chose to go down the more campy route because it suited his personality. So maybe if they had gone with Dalton earlier that probably wouldn't have happened.
@@Welsh_Dragon756 honestly at this point I kinda wish that the movies were never made in the first place as much as I enjoy some of them (Connery’s first 3, dalton’s 2 and goldeneye) to me they just didn’t have the same appeal as the books did
Timothy Dalton was one of my favorites too. He kinda got screwed in his tenure as Bond, There were some legal issues with the Bond series (nothing to do with Timothy Dalton)and there were no more Bond movies for six years. By that time Dalton's seven year contract had expired. Hello Pierce Brosnan.
A brilliant first flight into the world of 007, but nothing in the book suggests that the whole affair could not be instantly solved by just shooting Le Chiffre in the head.
yes it does, it says that otherwise he would become a martyr, but this way he is gambling away the funds of the trade union and if he loses it will cripple the organisation and uncover details about SMERSH
Publishers will now be putting out the bond Novels edited to make them more Politically correct [Can't wait to read the five pages of "Live and Let Die" that survive that culling]. I have a complete set of first editions in hard copy, and the unexpurgated Audio books. Try as they might, the wokers will NEVER successfully erase history. All they will succeed in doing is make the original versions MORE popular.
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As someone with failing eyesight, audiobooks are invaluable. Thank you so much for posting this. Much appreciated. loved it.
Praying for you brother. Hang in. The fight is worth it, yes.
Glad you enjoyed it.
I am right there with you. These audiobooks are a godsend
Chapter 1 - The Secret Agent 0:08
Chapter 2 - Dossier for M 12:14
Chapter 3 - Number 007 26:58
Chapter 4 - L'Ennemi Écoute 32:44
Chapter 5 - The Girl from Headquarters 43:55
Chapter 6 - Two Men in Straw Hats 56:00
Chapter 7 - Rouge et Noir 1:02:43
Chapter 8 - Pink Lights and Champagne 1:17:20
Chapter 9 - The Game is Baccarat 1:27:00
Chapter 10 - The High Table 1:39:41
Chapter 11 - Moment of Truth 1:50:28
Chapter 12 - The Deadly Tube 2:01:08
Chapter 13 - 'A Whisper of Love, A Whisper of Hate' 2:11:45
Chapter 14 - 'La Vie en Rose?' 2:25:21
Chapter 15 - Black Hare and Gray Hound 2:32:18
Chapter 16 - The Crawling of the Skin 2:39:17
Chapter 17 - 'My Dear Boy' 2:50:19
Chapter 18 - A Crag-like Face 3:08:40
Chapter 19 - The White Tent 3:14:54
Chapter 20 - The Nature of Evil 3:26:00
Chapter 21 - Vesper 3:39:04
Chapter 22 - The Hastening Saloon 3:51:05
Chapter 23 - Tide of Passion 4:01:17
Chapter 24 - Fruit Défendu 4:08:35
Chapter 25 - 'Black-Patch' 4:15:22
Chapter 26 - 'Sleep Well, My Darling' 4:24:23
Chapter 27 - The Bleeding Heart 4:30:48
Accurate pfp. Thank you good sir
Thank you.
You were a great help
Thanks a lot!
I love how fleming will describe something in a visceral way you've probably never thought of before but somehow it intuitively makes perfect sense.
Nova...I was astounded at Flemming's adjectives! I was never taught this when I studied English Lit. I would certainly teach it.
I read the original Fleming novels all the way through every few years. Love them. Love the fact that Fleming teaches the reader the rule of Baccarat 1:37:00. The reading by Simon Vance is perfect
My favorites were Moonraker, From Russia w/ Love & Dr. No. My least favorite was The Spy Who Loved Me. I've only read through them once. That's awesome you revisit them
A huge thank you for all these audio books. I never tire of the stories or the writing style. These are timeless
The real James Bond is not Daniel Craig, Roger Moore, or even Sean Connery. It's the James Bond of the original Ian Fleming novels: the cold blooded, very plausible assassin with the dark rather cruel face, and black hair with the drooping strands over the eye...
There is no "real" James Bond. Flemming's novels became extremely popular, made him tons of money. Sean Connery"s fictional James Bond made EON Productions a ton of money. Wonder how much Connery affected book sales. Fleming knew !!!!!
Ian Fleming said James Bond looked like Hoagy Carmichael. Timothy Dalton is almost the spitting image of Hoagy Carmichael. The others aren't even close.
and what you just described is why I always say Timothy Dalton is the closest bond to the one Fleming wrote.
And yet... Ian Fleming came to appreciate
Sean Connery as JB, to the degree that he gave him a Scottish heritage in on of the later novels.
Sean Connery on the other hand was very complimentary towards Daniel Craig. He thought Craig got the danger aspect just right.
The real James Bond is George Lazenby.
What a superb rendition of Fleming's novel, bravo! ❤
Chapter Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
00:07 Chapter 01 - The Secret Agent
12:13 Chapter 02 - Dossier for M
26:56 Chapter 03 - Number 007
32:40 Chapter 04 - L'Ennemi Ecoute
Chapter 05 - The Girl from Headquarters
Chapter 06 - Two Men in Straw Hats
Chapter 07 - Rouge et Noir
Chapter 08 - Pink Lights and Champagne
01:17:00 Chapter 8.
02:25:20 Chapter 14.
Thank you for posting this audiobook. For me, as a person with an interest in the Author and his own clandestine work during WW2 it was interesting to get into the mind of the creator of JB through his storytelling.
Much of Bond's character is based off Fleming himself. His views on women, skiing, aquatics, Jamaica, smoking. Although Fleming was never on the battle, he took inspiration from real life spies during WWII.
Fun fact: From Russia w/ Love the novel is based off a plan Fleming hatched during WWII to steal the Enigma Machine. A German plane was to crash in the sea with British soldiers inside, attract a U-boat, then the British were to overtake the U-boat and steal the code. This plan never made it to action. But you can certainly see the similarities w/ the novel
Thank you for making these, reading and books the lifeblood of reality, so thank you for these, they are very much appreciated
This is my first listen to any of these books. I'm hooked.
Fleming gave us truly the quintessential ‘spy novel’. With a deeply flawed & complicated character in Bond. I wasn’t a fan of the decision when Daniel Craig was cast, but I was quite wrong. All of the actors brought different characteristics to their portrayal, but Craig in my opinion proved to be closer to the Bond I knew of the books than the others. Especially in terms of the darkness within Bond. Brosnan & of course Connery did as well only slightly lesser so.
I came here because after 3 days of covid bedrest I was getting tired of my other books and wanted an easy listening experience. Now I'm happy to find a very well written story, with a high level of intelligence in the observations. Except for the female Charakters. Eva Green's Vesper in the movie is so much more interesting.
It was cool watching the movie first. Then discovering the books & reading the source of Bond & where it all started
Wow, never imagined the 007 books were this good. Glad I decided to do this on a whim. It’s oddly a lot more progressive than I had been led to believe.
1953 happened, the very first James Bond book is published, and the rest is history.
It's amazing to think the greatest film franchise ever got started right here
"inhales from benzedrine inhaler" oh boy this book is old
Incredible voice. That how I sound when I talk
Sweet. What's your favourite book and your favourite film, also your favourite game if you have one.
@@xkai7546 Favorite book is How to Win Friends and Influence People…….Strongly recommend it. It’s a famous classic actually. Favorite film is Nobody Knows. It’s a Japanese masterpiece.
@@ramencurry6672 I'll check them out. I read a book called influence, I heard the one you said but never read it, will do
@@ramencurry6672 thanks for recommending the film, Japanese films are my favourite, I do love media and art from different countries regardless.
Nice me too totally
Kinda missed the parkour action scene in Madagascar but baccarat is fun too.
Liked it thanks.
This is the ORIGINAL.
Yeah, Bond didn't have his cell phone + no ELLIPSIS text haha
*spies* shouldn't be action stars lol
Its interesting how in reality Bond is just a guy working at an office, being told precisely what to do , he only comes on his own in execution of his orders
He becomes cooler in later books.
"Wet work" AKA assassinations are far less common in reality. The countries don't want the retaliatory bloodshed. Most of the time is reading, writing, observing, presentations, etc.
If memory serves me right, I think it took Bond halfway through Live & Let Die to kill someone (not counting his 2 kills to get double 0). The novels have more espionage and less "action" than the films
It's part of why I love these stories. Bond is just a guy, there's relatability.
Enjoyed very much, great narration and finessed vocabulary. I tried another audio book just previously- an American novel and reader- and it was painfully cardboard and linguistically shallow. Books so often have a great alternate appeal vs films. Pretty vivid testimonial on the rampant chauvinism though!
It was a very different time
The Usual Brit literary snobbery .!
Henry James / Herman Melville /
Philip Roth / John Updike / Mark
Twain / Edgar Allen Poe ??
Never heard of any of them ? Or were they too " shallow " for your sophisticated taste ?
Bravo!!! Well Done!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
So very sad on how Bond realized for once, that he loved a woman- only to throw it all away because she had betrayed him, his country, and millions of other agents.
His last words stuck a thorn in me
Yeah.. i guess its the way of saying "life goes on". For example in Majesty Secret Service, it has sad credits and then suddently BAM BAM BAM BAAAM BAM BAM BAM. "James Bond theme". Its very Bond like
Oh man, this theme gets better in the Moonraker book. At the beginning, he's totally devoted to his role in his service to his country, having affairs with 3 married women at once and spending all his money because he doesn't see himself living past 45. But at the end, he's fallen in love with the women he faced death with and seems ready for a commitment, to really build something with her, but she was already engaged.
"Uuhh James I know you saved me at the beach cliff, from Drax and the Moonraker, but I have a boyfriend"
@@audiobookgold6717 Bond is now posting signs about how he needs a boyfriend free girl and he lives in Virginia.
Thank you for posting this, however, I believe that you are missing three books on your playlist. Anyway, thanks again.
Best of Fleming
1:09:29 - Bond orders a martini
I would like someone to make miniseries of the Bond books set in the original period using Ian Fleming stories as well as the VanLustbader and Gardner works.
Get to it!
Enjoyed it 👍
This made me want to watch the film
The book is much better
Yeah ,I figured this one out.Had my doubts on -----right off and knew the scenes before they happened .It was strange kinda.😮
While listening to this audiobook, i pictured Sean Connery as Bond (in his presence and style in Dr No) along with either Claire Bloom or Jean Simmons as Versper...
Imagine Connery's Bond speaking on the phone with cold resolution after reading Vesper's goodbye letter...
2:54:00 THE CHAIR
This scene was very similar to the film. Both were brutal
This is good stuff.
Great reading! Thanks!
I dont know about yall, but I always picture Timothy Dalton in my head when reading (or in this case listening to) the novels.
Dalton apparently read all the novels before being on the big screen. You can certainly tell he tried to take this Bond from the novels and put it on film
@@audiobookgold6717 ok this puts him second on my list of favourite bonds first being Sean and it’s a damn shame he didn’t get more movies but at the same time I’m kinda thankful because they would’ve made a parody of him like they did of roger Moore I have nothing against the man but his version was AWFUL imo
@@mohammedashian8094 Dalton was actually first offered the role to play bond before they chose Lazenby for OHMSS. They approached him after seeing his performance in "The lion in winter" but he turned them down as he was only 21 at the time.
They took a long time deciding before choosing Moore even though the producers were good friends with him as they didn't think he matched the character. When they did they chose to go down the more campy route because it suited his personality.
So maybe if they had gone with Dalton earlier that probably wouldn't have happened.
@@Welsh_Dragon756 honestly at this point I kinda wish that the movies were never made in the first place as much as I enjoy some of them (Connery’s first 3, dalton’s 2 and goldeneye) to me they just didn’t have the same appeal as the books did
Timothy Dalton was one of my favorites too. He kinda got screwed in his tenure as Bond, There were some legal issues with the Bond series (nothing to do with Timothy Dalton)and there were no more Bond movies for six years. By that time Dalton's seven year contract had expired. Hello Pierce Brosnan.
A brilliant first flight into the world of 007, but nothing in the book suggests that the whole affair could not be instantly solved by just shooting Le Chiffre in the head.
yes it does, it says that otherwise he would become a martyr, but this way he is gambling away the funds of the trade union and if he loses it will cripple the organisation and uncover details about SMERSH
@@mattmcleay6950 Fair enough. Bit of a weak reason.
That would make for a very short book.😂
🎲♦️♥️Casino Royale ♣️♠️🎰
Thxs, thumbs up
Only James Bond can play James Bond❣️
(I prefer Sean Connery 💙)
📽 April 2023: *70th* anniversary (much more significant milestone than, say, "October 2002" or any other film-centred anniversary) 😎
thats Simon Vance narrating
This is way better than those female voices on audible. It's so cringe they fail miserably.
Glad you enjoy
Chapter 1 0:07
Never read the book before so is this the full book?
How does Bond remain in such great physical shape smoking 10+ packs a day?
He is fairly young , and is sometimes forced to a heath farm to dry out , as In Thunderball
Three packs (60) as per his medical report in "Thunderball." But still...
Cigarettes were good for you in those days 😎
Great point, all this work does catch up w/ him at the start of Thunderball
@@audiobookgold6717 connery was 90 when he died, and he smoked cigarettes his entire life. 90!! 😂
3:39:21 why bond doesn't like flowers
So this is first one
2:30:00
Is this Nicholas Witchell?
Idk who that is. Are you wonder who the narrator is ?
@@audiobookgold6717 Yes.
@@leopolitan1914 the narrator is Robert Whitfield aka Simon Vance
@@audiobookgold6717 Thanks.
0:07
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Chapter 13 2:11:46
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2:23:46 bookmark
Publishers will now be putting out the bond Novels edited to make them more Politically correct [Can't wait to read the five pages of "Live and Let Die" that survive that culling].
I have a complete set of first editions in hard copy, and the unexpurgated Audio books.
Try as they might, the wokers will NEVER successfully erase history.
All they will succeed in doing is make the original versions MORE popular.
It's not erasing history
@@oriolesfan61 Keep telling yourself that if it helps you sleep at night.
q
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56:02 bookmark :)
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🎲 This die is my personal bookmark, don't mind me. (3:08:43)
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Yeah idk bond really just sounds like a preppy British metro sexual
Someone who really likes choo choo trains?
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