Thanks nufsed. I can’t really offer much input about the latest James Bond movies as I haven’t seen them. I’m still living in the past, having read the books and loved many of the earlier Bond actors, Connery being my favorite.
If you never read Flemmings first books, you should really do that.
I was in high school in the early 60s. A friend of mind gave me the hard cover of Dr. No or one of the one’s which was a book-of-the-month choice. After that I read all of them, including the ones be John Gardner. Haven’t tracked them since he stopped.