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| Dr No (Penguin Modern Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Ian Fleming
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 100126
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0141187611
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780141187617
ASIN: 0141187611
Publication Date: June 3, 2004
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 Simple and exciting installment in the Bond series September 23, 2007
Brilliant installment in the James Bond series. Simple, fast-paced and exctiting - a great adventure story.
If you look too closely, though, there's a lot to pick it up on:
On pg 17 there is an entirely wrong use of the adverb 'hardly' - but surely Fleming's editor should have picked this up
Inconsistent spelling, i.e. pg 169 - again, the editor should have picked this up
On page 154 a shark is classified as a reptile (when obviously it is a type of insect)
Fleming (through Bond) labels lots of girls 'Chinese' after Bond has just seen them, though how Bond can tell this is a mystery (he labels them before he has even spoken to them) - how does he know they are not Japanese or Taiwanese for example?
Fleming gets very mixed up over Chinese and Japanese traditional dress - he constantly calls kimonos Chinese, for example. It's not a case of Bond getting mixed up - the Chinese characters themselves get mixed up. Maybe Fleming could have done a bit more research?
This book exhibits the most perfect example of the villain wining and dining his nemesis before creating an elaborately-contrived death for him which he doesn't actually observe himself - all the stuff that Austin Powers lampoons.
Still, these are minor points. The film, probably far more familiar to most people, follows the book closely (except there is no silly nuclear business in the book, and no silly giant octopus bit in the film).
This is thoroughly engrossing, hard-to-put-down stuff.
 Brilliant! July 13, 2007
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Having read 6 of Fleming's Bond novels as well as the For Your Eyes Only short story collection, I can safely say that Dr No is my favourite so far!
It's a brilliantly written, endlessly compelling adventure.
Buy it.
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