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Comments: Would you like to add anything about the Bond books by Ian Fleming?

The books are better than the movies
Plus the continuation novels and Young Bond
Casino Royale and From Russia with Love are Fleming's best novels.
The best in Bond is not the movies, it's the novels from Fleming...
I wish they'd use more of the plotlines from the books(instead of just their names)--they're VERY good, and would have made great movies. I understand that Casino Royale uses more elements from the book (which I loved)--and can't wait to see how it works!
I think that the books are amazing. I love reading them over and over again.
Amazing - What A Genius!!!
I think This new Bond is how Fleming saw him.
Fleming was not a very good writer. His style seems to be as superficial as Dan Brown of the THE DA VINCI CODE fame.
casino royale
I read Casino Royale. Well written for a spy novel.
They're brilliantly written.
I have read all of Fleming's novels except TMWTGG
I need to finish 'You Only Live Twice' and ' The Man With The Golden Gun'. I've read all Benson's and most of Gardner's.
Working on reading the entire series, but Casino Royale, Live And Let Die, and Moonraker are all very entertaining novels. Fleming does an incredible job of describing the scenery, especially elements of food.
Read the as a schoolboy and loved them.
His books are always an interesting read
"All Bond fans should read Fleming if not the continuation novels.
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"books are always very good because they are better than films because you can leave stuff to your imagination
reading is very educating for all ages

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I read Goldfinger a while back, I think the film was similar to the book.
Very few gadgets, simple (but diabolical!) plots requiring Bond to save the world using his wits, determination and courage - gripping stuff, all of them!
Actually prefer the books to the films. the most enjoyable films were those, which followed the plots of the novels, from which they took their titles, most closely. That's what makes Casino Royale so good. I'd have gone the whole hog and made a prequel, set in the 1950s.
Bond is quite unlikeable in the books - they've had to take out a lot of the sexism and xenophobia in the films.
Just a pity there weren't more of them ..althoguh The Spy Who Loved Me is best forgotten.
Im not a big reader
films stick closely to the books
I must admit they are rather compelling once you start reading
Seem very old fashioned by modern standards and I think anyone starting to read them now after seeing the all-action, fast moving films might find them difficult. I read them years ago as a teenager and found them sexy, exciting and very different but I'm not sure my teenage son would enjoy them today.
I have read more than a few, but not all, would say most of them
Daniel Craig and the way he played Bond is more true to the books of Fleming.
The Bond books are as exciting and relevant today as they were when they were first written decades ago.
The first was excellent and I plan to read more of them.
He wrote about a man that all men would wish to be, and all women love.
i think reading the book spoils the film
Prefer the films
usually, i prefer the book to watching the film, but for some reason, Ive never fancied reading any bond books.
Since Fleming obviously modeled Bond after himself (at least in his own fantasy world), there's something missing by every other writer to follow. (Although John Gardner did an outstanding job of bringing Bond up to the times he was writing in -- e.g., having Bond cutting down on smoking and alcohol consumption, and introducing Q'ute.) Robert Markham did a credible story, but the writing style was his own (i.e., Kingsley Amis's) and very different from Fleming's.
This says it all.
Only the Fleming ones are worth reading. Brilliant author.
Fleming was not the world's greatest writer. He was good in dealing with travelogue and with eccentric characters, but his plots were at best, meh.
I read Casino Royale before the release of the film to get the back story.
I first read them in the late sixties and have re-read them frequently ever since. The non-Fleming novels I've read only once each.
I have read all of them multiple times. Ian Fleming is my favourite author.
I own all...great books!
I like his non PC aspects that he could get away with i the 1950's
The books are what keep me a Bond fan. The movies are wonderful but the novels are where you get to know the character. That is why Casino Royale is such a great film.
I've read most of them.
There is so much more to the novels.
I've read 10 of them. Most of them were good.
I've read "Casino Royale," "Live and Let Die," "From Russia with Love," "Dr. No," "Goldfinger," "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and "You Only Live Twice."
"The true Ian Fleming 007 character has never been properly portrayed on the screen. The closest seems to be Brosnan or Moore, with a nod to Lazenby.

That said, it is probably in the best intersts in the series that they stay with the charming, but less emotional, 007 for the films. It is a fantasy character that always was great fun and should stay that way, less he become a bore and just like any other angst-driven killer."