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Cargando... Thrilling Cities (1963)por Ian Fleming
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 4/9/22 This book is a travelogue, apparently taken from articles that Fleming wrote for the Sunday Times (London) in 1959-1960. Fleming goes around the world, and visits a number of cities, including Hong Kong, Macao, Tokio, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, Hamburg, Berlin and Vienna. Very much a period piece from the dawn of the jet age, with some of the cities (Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna and Tokio) still recovering from the war. Fleming is hilariously sour about tourists, thieving natives (especially in Naples), New York City in general, and rather un-PC, including his rendering of Japanese and Chinese english. Very much a period piece of a vanished era, but also some interesting things, like an interview with Lucky Luciano. Definitely recommended, if only for nostalgia. A collection of vignettes, focusing on what Fleming found interesting in th limited remit in which he was given. Fun in places and evocative at times, particularly with regards to the descriptions of gambling both in Macao and Monte Carlo. Some of the figures and crime statistics now seem hopelessly out of date, and this reinforces the fact that for maximum enjoyment this has to be read as a period piece. In all honesty, a better book for those interested in Fleming as a man rather than as the author of James Bond. More for Fleming fans, therefore, than fans of his literary creation. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"From the jet-setting creator of James Bond--the worldly secret agent whose missions took him to some of the globe's most exotic locales--comes a whirlwind adventure up the side streets and down the back alleys of mid-twentieth-century Europe, Asia, and North America. These essays comprise Ian Flemings's highly personal impressions of fourteen of the world's most beguiling cities--from Vienna to Hong Kong to Chicago and beyond. With the trained eye of a master novelist, Fleming reveals the hidden places and secret intelligence that made hot spots like Macao and Monte Carlo come alive for him and other discerning travelers of the postwar era. From a geisha house of the nightclubs where high rollers gather to the driver's seat of a Ford Thunderbird as it rockets down the autobahn, Ian Fleming sketches vivid observations of fast lane life in the thrilling cities he loved best."--Page 4 of cover. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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