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(A-) 80% | Very GoodNotes: James Bond, embittered professional killer, gambles on humanity and love, while …
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(A-) 80% | Very GoodNotes: James Bond, embittered professional killer, gambles on humanity and love, while we learn the intricacies of baccarat.
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Man...he's cold.Is James Bond a bit of a sexist? Yes.I remembered being aware that he wasn't the most forwar…
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Man...he's cold.Is James Bond a bit of a sexist? Yes.I remembered being aware that he wasn't the most forward-thinking chap when it came to women after I first read this book, and the passing of 13 years hasn't made him look any better. He's definitely an ass, so this isn't a book you should hand to your son with an emulate this guy wink.But what I had forgotten was that the first half of this (rather short) book was mostly just a card game. No cool spy stuff, no outrageous sexytimes, just a dull as shit card game. And the second half was James getting his ass thoroughly beaten, only escaping death by sheer dumb luck.This is NOT the suave James Bond we know and love.This?This is just a run-of-the-mill agent who got his balls thumped by the psycho he beat at baccarat. He eventually passes out, wakes up, gets thwacked on his nads some more, and right before the bad guy pulls the trigger, another bad guy shows up and kills the testicle-smasher.Bad guy #2 leaves James alive presumably because he's going to need to show up in the next book and fumble fuck around again. I had also forgotten how shockingly unintelligent he was when it came to reading the room, because Vesper is quite OBVIOUSLY hiding something from him.But apparently, he thinks it's normal for women to make cryptic comments and cry after sex, so he never managed to put two and two together and come up with a double agent. I might have felt a bit sorry for the poor bastard but he only wanted to marry Vesper because she was mysterious enough so that each sexual encounter would have the sweet tang of rape to it. Wait. Back up. What? Oh, James. That's gross. Even for you.Moving on.This was actually interesting. Like, really interesting. I don't know how I missed it the first time …
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SpoilersThis will be a review of not just Casino Royale, but of the James Bond books in general. I think that there is a g…
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SpoilersThis will be a review of not just Casino Royale, but of the James Bond books in general. I think that there is a good argument to be made, that the Bond books are the most misunderstood books of all prominent books, because the very subtext that accounts for their enduring appeal is buried so deeply that it just passes most people by.The best way to understand the James Bond books is to understand the heroines of the books. These heroines are often characterized as being glamorous women who it is Bond's role to save. This is completely and totally wrong. The whole key is that these women ALWAYS have short unpainted nails. They are actors and present an existential challenge to James Bond. In fact the best way to understand Bond is as a kind of existential literature.Fleming was a writer who had a message that he seemed not to be fully and consciously aware of. He says the same message in every book, and he says it in the same way (with the exceptions of The Spy Who Loved Me and the short story Quantum of Solace, where the same themes are approached from alternative directions).Fleming is often compared to Le Carre, almost always negatively. This is an unfair comparison in two ways. First of all, Fleming is a great writer and is, along with Lovecraft, one of the two greatest writers of Pulp in history, whereas Le Carre is merely a very good writer. Second, Fleming is not really writing spy literature, he is really writing fantasy in which the hero happens to have the occupation of a spy. As such, criticisms of a lack of realism are about as out of place as they would be for The Lord of the Rings or Alice in Wonderland. I would have thought, that the Bond books wear their status as fantasy more clearly than, say, the Latin American Magical …
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I can’t logically recommend starting your 007 reading list with any novel other than Casino Royale, where Fleming paints the world and man down to every detail.
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The world was introduced to James Bond upon the release of Casino Royale, launching one of the most iconic and successful spy series in history.
According to one biographer, Fleming whispered at the table to his friend John Godfrey: "Just suppose these fellows were German agents -- what a coup it would be if we cleaned them out entirely!"
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Ian Fleming's inspiration for Casino Royale was a baccarat battle Fleming played in Lisbon during the Second World War against several Portuguese men.
It ran from 7 July 1958 to 13 December 1958, and was written by Anthony Hern and illustrated by John McLusky.
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Casino Royale was the first James Bond novel to be adapted as a daily comic strip which was published in the Daily Express newspaper and syndicated worldwide.
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