Big’s organization, and I found the underwater scene of Bond voyaging to the villain’s base to be particularly surreal and otherworldly. There were a few good scenes of Bond’s battles with the gangsters of Mr. Big reminded me a lot of a black version of the villain the Kingpin from Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man and Daredevil. This book had its moments and exciting/intriguing parts, there’s no denying that. While “Live and Let Die” wasn’t a terrible novel, I felt that it wasn’t as terrific and exciting as my mind and the synopsis had built it up to be, nor as how the film version with Roger Moore portrayed it. I dared to voice the unutterable blasphemy that a film adaptation was better than the book itself. While I don’t remember all of the film, I remember after having read this book that it was very different and actually better. Probably over a decade ago, I saw the James Bond film of the same name that was adapted from this book while watching a James Bond movie marathon on satellite tv. Has James Bond bitten off more than he can chew, or is this a perfect opportunity for him to excel in his deadly skills as a double agent? He is also a vicious operative of the Russian terrorist syndicate, SMERSH, and, perhaps, most fearsome of all, the rumored zombie of the dark voodoo god Baron Samedi himself. Big is a notorious Harlem gangster who has been hoarding and running pirate gold in illegal operations. 007 is back, and this time he must face a threat from America’s shores.
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It's been a good, solid busy, as you can see if the hard stuff is where your reading needs are right now. This mess of words and ideas is what's kept Author Parsons busy the past twelve or so years. The whole collection's about the messiness of being alive, the passionlessness of the quotidian, purple cabbage Thai dishes that jumble against red beards, hairy armpits. Like a playlist of stuff you can't remember liking when you were twenty but comes up when you enter the year you turned twenty into YouTube's maw. You might, in fact, prefer solitude on the trip, but by definition, reading is an accompanied silence. The there you're going with Author Parsons is the there that we try hard to deal with each in our separate ways, the there that we hate but need. You know the "there" I mean, that there that Gertrude Stein railed against not being there in Oakland, California, circa 1920. ***NOVEMBER 2019 UPDATE*** This delightful book has unseated the presumptive champion to become my annual six-stars-of-five bestestest read of the year!ĪND it was a 2019 NBA longlister.AND it's in the 2020 Tournament of Books!ĭon't start this read if you're not ready to go there. These were the years of his improbable self-invention and unprecedented triumphs, when it seemed that everything that Elvis tried succeeded wildly. This volume tracks the first twenty-four years of Elvis' life, covering his childhood, the stunning first recordings at Sun Records ("That's All Right," "Mystery Train"), and the early RCA hits ("Heartbreak Hotel," "Hound Dog," "Don't Be Cruel"). 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