{"id":391,"date":"2017-04-12T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2017-09-10T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T22:02:21","slug":"book-goldfinger-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/12\/book-goldfinger-1959\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Goldfinger (1959)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1433975399l\/3759.jpg\" alt=\"Goldfinger\" width=\"220\" height=\"344\" \/>Goldfinger<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 1959<br \/>\nAuthor: Ian Fleming<br \/>\nLength: 509 minutes \/ 8.48 hours<\/p>\n<p>For many years, I was aware that the James Bond series of books did not follow the same order as their respective films. Given the action\/adventure spy thriller genre these books were written in, it is possible to mix them around and still have a good understanding of what\u2019s going on, even if some of the references made within the novels could only be understood by having read the previous books in the series. In some respects, it is disappointing that the film franchise didn\u2019t capitalize on a continuous narrative that the books provided.<\/p>\n<p>If the stories are out of order, then it &#8216;s hard to build up the constant battle between James Bond and the Soviet spy agency, SMERSH. Fortunately, since I had read a few of the first books in the <em>James Bond<\/em> series, I could appreciate Auric Goldfinger\u2019s connection to the organization. That being said, I seemed to have jumped ahead a bit and missed what happened on the <em>Moonraker<\/em> mission, even if I have a loose idea\/remembrance of what happened from its film version. Regardless, these minor references didn\u2019t affect the plot of <em>Goldfinger<\/em> that much.<\/p>\n<p>What I do find interesting with this book is the differences between it and the movie. There\u2019s no laser threatening to cut Bond in half, there are more characters involved in the heist, and the actual heist itself has a slightly different objective. It is weird reading about the technology Bond uses and its references to \u201cvacuum tubes\u201d when the film makes all his tech seem futuristic. I do find it interesting how the author won\u2019t outright swear (replacing the choice word with a \u201cblank\u201d) but includes two lesbian characters and a plethora of other, sexual inferences.<\/p>\n<p>A fantastic story in the <em>James Bond<\/em> franchise, I give <em>Goldfinger<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goldfinger Year: 1959 Author: Ian Fleming Length: 509 minutes \/ 8.48 hours For many years, I was aware that the James Bond series of books did not follow the same order as their respective films. Given the action\/adventure spy thriller genre these books were written in, it is possible to mix them around and still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,54],"tags":[299,55,453,477,319,8,478],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-book","tag-299","tag-book","tag-goldfinger","tag-ian-fleming","tag-james-bond","tag-review","tag-smersh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}