James Bond The Man With The Golden Gun Ian Fleming Audiobook

The Man with the Golden Gun is the twelfth novel (and thirteenth book) of Ian Fleming's James Bond series. It was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK on 1 April 1965, eight months after the author's death. The novel was not as detailed or polished as the others in the series, leading to poor but polite reviews. Despite that, the book was a best-seller.
The story centres on the fictional British Secret Service operative James Bond, who had been posted missing, presumed dead, after his last mission in Japan. Bond returns to England via the Soviet Union, where he had been brainwashed to attempt to assassinate his superior, M. After being "cured" by the MI6 doctors, Bond is sent to the Caribbean to find and kill Francisco Scaramanga, the titular "Man with the Golden Gun".
The first draft and part of the editing process was completed before Fleming's death and the manuscript had passed through the hands of his copy editor, William Plomer, but it was not as polished as other Bond stories. Much of the detail contained in the previous novels was missing, as this was often added by Fleming in the second draft. Publishers Jonathan Cape passed the manuscript to Kingsley Amis for his thoughts and advice on the story, although his suggestions were not subsequently used.
The novel was serialised in 1965, firstly in the Daily Express and then in Playboy; in 1966 a daily comic strip adaptation was also published in the Daily Express. In 1974 the book was loosely adapted as the ninth film in the Eon Productions James Bond series, with Roger Moore playing Bond and Fleming's cousin, Christopher Lee, as Scaramanga.

[@MikeJames-yv8my]

I have watched the film, but listening to this audio book has been more rewarding, fires up my imagination allowing me to walk the streets of Jamaica, awaking my senses and ultimately rekindle my love of everything 007 related. Time to rewatch the films. Also love the natural cadence of narrator.

[@angieb7572]

Some people...Whinge whinge whinge bloody whinge.....Don’t listen then ...move on if you’re not enjoying it😝😕😳 I am appreciative for the upload thank you

[@JohnDoe-tm9wz]

Girl, you hot!

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

What the hell are you talking about?!

[@angieb7572]

@@ProjectFlashlight612 People moaning about the narrator. Buy it on audible with David Rintoul narrating then .

[@twt3716]

Dum ti dum ti dum. People are scum. I agree. If you dont like the narrator, watch telly instead.

[@lord_insany]

@@angieb7572 try the BBC dramatisation with Toby Stephens and Guillermo Diaz, it's quite terrible.

[@AE-Rugby]

Thoroughly enjoyable … This always gets a bad press as an unfinished novel ….. I’ve always enjoyed it and it’s better than some other of his novels in my humble opinion . I also love the movie so I clearly have bad taste if you go by what the critics say

[@LITTLE1994]

Knowing the 1974 film, it is nice to hear the original 1965 novel many fans had forgotten. But, it is sad that Ian Fleming died before he could finish it, so it sounded unpolished or incomplete, with the anti-Bond villain himself doesn't sound as smart as in the film with Christopher Lee, because he is crazy, and rather tortures than kill quickly. I like the part when the novel said the Golden Gun was a gold Colt. 45. (39:11) The game Perfect Dark actually had a weapon based on the original version of Scaramanga's weapon, the DY357-LX. But, the golden derringer with snake venom in the end wasn't expected. Scaramanga dang near got Bond!

[@judikingsman6132]

Im happy to listen to these narrations. I don't do the movies. These audio books are free ❤🎉 Thank you for your time 😍

[@jimroth2473]

Enjoyed this very much. Thank You. 👍👍👍👍

[@DreadnoughtMetal2006]

"There was always something odd about 007's death. No body, no solid evidence" - Mark these words for the next Bond film.

[@PibrochPonder]

Hmmm let’s see if they can pull a rabbit out of the hat. They did a pretty good job of screwing up James Bond. Very disappointing film with lord of forced box tickers in it.

[@TheRadivoje]

@@PibrochPonder they pulled Armagedon ending on James Bond.Only thing missing was Aerosmith singing

[@alwaysOPEN4business]

​@@PibrochPonder'lord of forced box tickers' lol you can't even type basic proper English, so that type of braindead comment is to be expected.

[@alwaysOPEN4business]

Lol you guys are utterly clueless if you think the next film is going to be a continuation of NTTD.

[@DreadnoughtMetal2006]

@@alwaysOPEN4business As if you have any clues at all. For the record, Colonel Sun has no correlation to the Bond franchise in any way, shape or form (unless that's going to be the next film) YET, they lifted the passage that Blofeld (who was given the name Oberhauser when he shouldn't have been, by the way - that's from the Octopussy book) said about being present when a man was deprived of his eyes. What I said was to mark those words (see above) because, for those who DO have a clue, the director would be extremely remiss not to use that particular line - even if the film is a continuation from No Time To Die OR Die Another Day - which, is what it should be. But, Hollywood, you know.., It's not like they ever followed the chronology or anything, is it..(!)

[@stevedoggart2805]

The accents for the Dr at the end went through Bengali , to Welsh around Nigeria and ended up in Thailand.

[@pratikking2272]

Hahahaha

[@mrsapplez2007]

😄😄😄

[@monsignorerasmus.6441]

I do numerous accents The one thing i cant figure out is why the british have such a hard time with tje american accent. No shade on them i have a hard time with aussie accents. Its curious.

[@Leighton_DINO_YT]

@@monsignorerasmus.6441 G’day mate! Throw another shrimp on the bar-beeeee! (My Aussie accent is second to none) 😊

[@monsignorerasmus.6441]

@@Leighton_DINO_YT dude i would swear you grew up in Brisbane!😁😂

[@Thoralmir]

Fun fact: the movie featured Christopher Lee as the villain. Lee was a close friend of Ian Fleming during the War, and the latter based the character of James Bond on the former's exploits as a spy and a Nazi-hunter. Lee was the first considered for the role of Bond in fact.

[@SleepExports]

Thoralmir I thought he was considered to play Dr no, not bond?

[@BelatedCommiseration]

Equally fun fact, Fleming and Lee had known each other a lot longer than that...they were cousins and had known each other since boyhood, but I think you are right in that they did grow a lot closer during the war.

[@nicknewman7848]

Genius comment

[@michaelproctor8100]

@@SleepExports Fleming once told Lee he would have made a good Dr. No

[@SleepExports]

@@michaelproctor8100 Ok thx

[@michaelwilkins5841]

Thank you..enjoyed it very much

[@johnstaley6337]

Fascinating how the book has much more depth than the film … I’m only 1/2 way through & expecting the usual long winded bad guy blathering , but so far I like it better than the film.

[@fanboy2015]

I wonder how Quarrel's dialogue, from Live and Let Die and Dr. No, would be read? When I read Dr. No years ago. I said to myself "This could not be spoken like that today".

[@greenlife5980]

beautiful audio :D

[@thebudkellyfiles]

I can't believe that this was written by Fleming. I am a writer, and very sensitive to the tone and cadence of other writers. This sounds like it was incomplete and had the details and editing done after he was dead. $$$ But the narrator was great. Thanks.

[@michaelproctor8100]

Fleming died before he could revise, polish and add the rich detail he always incorporated after he had completed the first draft. Glidrose Productions finished the book for him and released it posthumously in 1965.

[@RupertWolfeMurray]

What was incomplete about it? It's just short...

[@rossdiljohn9222]

The accents are hilarious

[@joshuaivanovic]

Jamaicans sound Welsh 😂😂😂

[@leusalein]

Love to imagine Daniel as Bond, with the audiobooks I can pretend my favourite Bond in the story. Love it

[@monsignorerasmus.6441]

Cant not picture Connery.

[@LITTLE1994]

I perfer Pierce Brosnan.

[@alwaysOPEN4business]

Quite hilarious considering Craig is physically further from novel Bond than any of the other actors lol

[@cableguy209]

Excellent 240

[@allan4922]

Robert Whitfield is Simon Vance. The Ian Fleming novels read by Simon don't seem to be available to purchase. Well perhaps and ad hoc on eBay.

[@robertboyle2573]

Thank god I can whistle!

[@phineascampbell3103]

There's a lot of Welsh people in Jamaica, aren't there!? And some Indians, and a Canadian or two!!

[@joshuaivanovic]

I didn't realise the Welsh colonised Jamaica

[@samsonwilkinson8090]

So Hendricks - from The Hague - for some reason speaks in a 'Central European accent' heavily disguised as a French brogue. I see... it all makes perfect sense now...

[@donaldmcauliffe7653]

The man with golden gun was the last book he wrote the books are different than the movies

[@malteseowl]

They always are, they almost HAVE to be. Try reading a few books, then watch the movies of the book - I bet you'll prefer the book version, the images in your head, to the "Hollywood" version/images.

[@LITTLE1994]

Novels and movies are not supposed to be the same. Look at the Harry Potter franchise.

[@aquietlife7103]

If so, Lord bless you.

[@souravkumar-yu9vi]

1:14:00 chap 6

[@eleveneleven572]

I didn't know that West Indians spoke with a Welsh accent 😂

[@Cheepchipsable]

Ronnie Corbett would always say his attempts at a Welsh accent sounded like Pakistani.

[@NoosaHeads]

This was actually quite tiresome. Ian Fleming didn't finish this book - it was finished by his editor. Fleming told the publishers that he'd not be writing any more James Bond books. The book came out almost a year after Fleming died. Most people agree that The man with the golden gun was the worst Bond story. Maybe it would have been far better had Fleming been able to do the final draft.

[@redrb26dett]

True I think Fleming slightly missed out in not killing off bond and just letting him live out the rest of his life in peace in Japan something booksellers and the public wouldn't let happen

[@LITTLE1994]

Sad truth out of a potential story.

[@---ju6jp]

Fun fact, this audiobook was narrated by Kenneth Branagh

[@marcusjp]

says his name is Robert Whitfield at the start. Wouldn't blame him for using a false name though, those accents are shameful!

[@robertbrown8362]

WoW!

[@elainemagson213]

No.

[@JMcLeodKC711]

Simon Vance

[@aquietlife7103]

Are you the Robert Brown?

[@aquietlife7103]

More than once played 'M'?

[@fawzigramajo]

Do you have for your eyes only?

[@souravkumar-yu9vi]

2:17:00

[@souravkumar-yu9vi]

2:57:00

[@souravkumar-yu9vi]

32:00 chapter 3

[@souravkumar-yu9vi]

3:20:00

[@nikodemrol9019]

10:34

[@souravkumar-yu9vi]

3:10:00

[@50shadesofgrade]

🕴

[@user-jl8mp6lg4i]

47min 15sec…

[@justjones5430]

Oi Fleming! Don't give the villain a single action pistol when you blatantly have zero idea of how a single action pistol works.

[@souravkumar-yu9vi]

53:25 chap 4

[@karinkrog369]

WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY to many adv.!!!!!!!!!!

[@S0uth3rnBl00d]

Poulu

[@S0uth3rnBl00d]

Olool

[@clubsport9334]

Krog angry! Krog hate ads! Krog no listen free audiobook!

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[@baldwincollins4344]

one writer on here, claims Christopher lee was Ian Fleming's First choice to playJames Bond. Rubbish. it was Ian Fleming's Choice That his Cousin Christopher lee play DR.NO in the MOTION PICTURE But the producers had already Cast Joseph Wiseman in the Role.

[@carolineheyworth1395]

As

[@philhealey4443]

Well my only complaint is that the steam locomotive has a regulator, not an accelerator.....unless Q had been meddling with it ?

[@Carlos-tn2hf]

You speak to fSr

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Fleming completed this novel. He died before he could polish it, but every word is his. So sick of idiots thinking they know things they have no grasp of.

[@tylerrmumford3283]

53:17

[@nightfallalicorn4246]

I think the movie is miles better.

[@OverlandOne]

The movie sucks compared to the book in my opinion.

[@rontrecker8822]

This story is very different from the film. This is very unfortunate because the story rambles and is not as good as film’s story - it is crap.

[@richardshears4999]

His narrating doesn't do Flemings book justice. Didn't know the Jamaicans had a Welsh accent.

[@bolshevikproductions]

Yes the Welsh taught the Africa slaves in West Indies to speak English

[@SuperGrandlady]

What is wrong here ? I want to watch this movie, James Bond 007 however no sound ?

[@irismckenney551]

This is an audiobook.

[@luapworrag]

Jeanette McMaster don't worry. Just listen. This is like a whole new bond. Grab a chair, kick everyone out the house and enjoy a new bond film entirely drawn by your imagination

[@kevgh3869]

and drink alcohol.

[@jonlinam4029]

luapworrag that is the exactly what I think about it too mate

[@agfagaevart]

vodka martini...

[@Belzediel]

If you find awful accents off-putting, be aware that the narrator is amongst the worst I have ever heard, which is fairly odd as this book features a LOT of characters from Forn Parts. He seems to think a Jamaican accent is somewhere between a Welshman doing a Pakistani accent, and a Pakistani man doing a Welsh accent with deviations into some kind of generic Cockney, but in no-way even accidently veers close to Jamaican. It's sufficiently distracting I kept having to rewind to listen to several characters as my brain was in revolt the first time. The Americans are, if anything, even worse. I have no idea what he's going for, but at various times Scaramanga seems to be from generic Yankimerica, Boston, New Jersey, Texas, Wyoming and California, often shifting mid-sentence.

[@OverlandOne]

A Jamaican accent IS a cross between a Welshman and a Pakistani. Where have you been? Obviously not to Jamaica.

[@salafalfalah7298]

SORRY : IT'S BETTER TO WATCH THE MOVIE THAN HEAR YOUR STORY ...

[@souravkumar-yu9vi]

3:05:00