About this title: James Bond comes face to face with Goldfinger, a nemesis who is particularly enamored of the precious metal from which his name is derived, and in this case, 15 billion dollars worth of it.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet-New American Library
Date Published: 1960
Description: Acceptable. Yellowing pages. Creased cover. Name of former owner written on paste down or fly. Bumped corners. Clean pages. Worn cover. Initials of former owner written on front cover. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New American Library
Date Published: 1959
Description: Good. Moderate shelf wear and tear with age toning. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Berkely Publishing Co
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780425081655ISBN:0425081656
Description: Grade: C. Catalog: Mystery Spy Synopsis: 262 pages. Auric Goldfinger: cruel, clever, frustratingly careful. A cheat at canasta and a crook on a massive scale. The sort of man James Bond hates... read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"Solid. A fantastic book, especially considering it's the origin of probably my favorite of the Connery films (which, excepting the new Casino Royale, I'd put head and shoulders above all the others). There's a lot more going on here than in the book, and it's a real treat.
The thing that struck me here, though, and in the others I've read this past couple weeks, is how very tame they are by modern standards, especially sexually. There are suggestions of what's going to happen after the stories end, the occasional hard kiss, but nothing _happens_ between Bond and the women he meets. So not what I was expecting, but it does not in any way detract from the book. Great fun."
"Good fun to read a classic Bond tale, interesting to see the similarities and variations the movie took. Plus you get some clothing descriptions like this, which is always fun:
"Mr. Du Pont was about fifty - pink, clean-shaven and dressed in the conventional disguise with which Brooks Brothers cover the shame of American millionaires. He wore a single-breasted dark tan tropical suit and a white silk shirt with a shallow collar. The rolled ends of the collar were joined by a gold safety pin beneath the knot of a narrow dark red and blue striped tie that fractionally wasn't the Brigade of Guards'. The cuffs of the shirt protruded half an inch below the cuffs of the coat and showed cabochon crystal links containing miniature trout flies. The socks were charcoal-grey silk and the shoes were old and polished mahogany and hinted Peal. The man carried a dark, narrow-brimmed straw Homburg with a wide claret ribbon.""
"A classic example of pulp fiction. International adventure and espionage, and grandiose crimes thrown in for good measure. Each of the novels, I feel, portrays the true essences of what makes Bond Bond, far better than the movies. The novels do not overwhelm the reader with gadgets and explosive actions. It is the very lifestyle that Bond lives that creates the marketed saying, "women want him; men want to be him." Roaming Europe in luxury cars (and also being in a dangerous chase), staying in luxury resorts (with the company of beautiful women), and decadent food creates a wonderful, all be it male, fantasy world. However, this Bond adventure does have its short comings. I have to agree with one poster that admitted that a whole chapter describing a golf game was too much. Constantly tying, or trying to tie, Goldfinger to the Soviet cause was instilling too much Cold War fear. Over all, if one is looking for a decent, light read, I would continue to recommend the Bond series."
"The Bond in the books (at least at this point in the series) is much less flippant than the movies of the 90s with which I am most familiar. The more recent films seem a better representation of character from the book. It's interesting to see Fleming's chauvinistic tendencies coming through in his writing. Though, I'm not sure many people would have objected much to them when it was originally published."
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