Casino Royale (Audio CD) Reviews
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Newest Review: ... purposes against them. They decide instead to use MI6 agent James Bond 007, famed as the best gambler in the service, to play ... more
... against Le Chiffre at the gaming tables. All Bond has to do is clean him out at the casino and Le Chiffre will be ruined and eliminated by SMERSH. But will this be easier said than done, even for James Bond?
Although this is abridged and dispenses with some of Fleming's longeurs and one or two bits and pieces, it's an enjoyable audiobook on the whole that captures some of the atmosphere and mood of the book. Casino Royale is a little more downbeat and subdued than many of the books that followed and Bond himself...more
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Casino Royale was Ian Fleming's first (and some would argue best) James Bond novel. It's adapted here in an abridged audiobook version that was read and performed by the actor Rufus Sewell in 2002. Casino Royale was published in 1953 and the first of many Bond books by Fleming, who delighted readers (still in the midst of drab post-war austerity) with his mix of escapism, sex, sadism, travel and his obsession with good food and drink. I'm sure there were many readers back then who wouldn't have minded being James Bond just to sample a few of his dinners let alone the exotic women and locations he encountered. The story in Casino Royale concerns a communist agent in ... Read the complete review
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