Between the upcoming release of Spectre, the latest James Bond film, to Daniel Craig’s ill-advised (though I’m sure from the heart, unless he was misquoted) comments regarding making more Bond films to getting all my Bond films -so far minus the Dalton ones, have to work on that!- on UV, it appears I’ve been wallowing in all things James Bond for the past couple of weeks.

And I will continue to do so here.

From Daniel Dockery and presented on the usually hilarious Cracked.com…

5 Ways James Bond Was WAY More Insane In The Books

I have the James Bond books but simply haven’t had the time to read them despite recommendations -and admonitions- from others.  Of course the novels movies are based on will often be different, sometimes radically so, from the movies made from them and James Bond is no different.

However, of the five differences mentioned the one that struck me the most was probably #4, the manner in which Dr. No dies in the novel.

Without giving it away, reading this makes me feel his death was so very…anti-climactic.  Silly even.  However, one has to remember the novel was originally published in March of 1958 and, let’s face it, that was an awful long time ago.  People people back then might have found some dark humor in the novelization death versus what I think about this villain’s death today.

Regardless, read the list, it is quite fascinating!