I think everyone sees Connery as the definitive Bond.
Starting with
Goldfinger the series lost any hard edge it had and became
more and more
cartoonish. I think it's clear From Russia with Love was the
best of the
series. With its tight focus on action and lack of a
grandiose plot, its
almost as though it were the filming of a Matt Helm
novel.
Going back to the comments on the original books, it seems
almost everybody,
including most on this list, think of Bond as he appears in
movies. The
books seem forgotten.
Mark Blumenthal
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