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.
Good, I’m glad you read the books. I have a couple of good James Bond gifs that I made on a webpage;
http://domania.us/Oaccess/POTLATCH/MyFavoriteThings.html