(I guess quality of life is subjective.) So again my recourse is to the internet archive. Even though Wikipedia says the county I live in is one of the wealthiest counties in America and one of the top five place to live in the USA as determined by some magazine, the county library system has no novels by Ian Fleming. Reading Kingsley Amis recently brought James Bond to mind, so I decided to read the Ian Fleming 007 novels. I liked James Bond the way I liked the first Star Wars movie-I savored the ceaseless violence!
This was before puberty, so all the references to sex in the movies and in the books either went over my head or bored me.
I even read four or five of the Ian Fleming novels, though I don't think I really 'got' them, being so young, and they being so radically different than the films.
As a kid I loved the James Bond movies with Sean Connery, George Lazenby or Roger Moore which would periodically show up on network TV full of commercials.
