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Dr. No (James Bond #6)

Ian Fleming

Published 1958

★★★★
Status
Completed in 2026
Dates
Apr 24 – May 6, 2026
Format
Hardcopy
Time
8h 30m
Genre
Fiction

Why this rating

What a fun start to the series. "Start" because I'm going to read the full series (literally all of them) as part of Joshie and my podcast The Bond Brothers where we're watching all 25 of the bond movies in prep for the 26th that'll come out at some point in the next few years. "Start" because even though this is book 6, it's the first movie. The book itself was fun. More simple and straightforward than I anticipated. Except for the beeped out swearwords and the racism/colonialism, it reads very modern, if a bit simple. I really enjoyed it. Check out the podcast for more of my thoughts on it and how it relates/doesn't to the movie.