There is a time for every man and this man is of his time. I might go a step further and say, a profession for every man and this man is of his profession, for James Bond is a psychopath and one would need to be in order to do the things his job requires of him. He is a controllable psychopath. He's...
This book surprised me in a number of ways. First, Fleming’s Bond isn’t quite the cold, calculating Bond we’ve come to expect. There certainly is an element of that detachment and remorselessness present, but it coexists with a curiously tender and affectionate side which chooses to manifest itself ...
I wanted to read something easy and fun after struggling with two complicated books ([b:The Satanic Verses|12781|The Satanic Verses|Salman Rushdie|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1281988101s/12781.jpg|1434467] and [b:Reason and Religious Belief: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion|90558|Reaso...
So, I tried to ignore all the misogyny because, you know, written in the fifties, but still the book isn't really good. Mostly because Bond is really a bad spy, jeez. Maybe after all that happened in this book will he be better? Not really counting on it.
I came to this book, my first James Bond, with the baggage of decades of exposure to his film incarnations. Having Daniel Craig as a template for this particular outing is no bad thing, though I was intrigued to read Bond described as having a look of Hoagy Carmichael about him.So, I went into this ...
I'm surprised by the way this book played out. I was expecting a straight out spy thriller and what I got was definitely more complicated. I would say it was more of a 3.5 and I usually round down, but because the sexism (which was a pure reflection of the time it was written in) was written with ...
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 ...
It's difficult to put aside a lifetime of watching James Bond movies and remember that the entire thing had to start somewhere - and this is it. Bond springs fully formed as a double 0 agent and walks into the casino to play baquerat - a game I now understand the rules of. He's somewhat darker on th...
I watched my first Bond movie (I believe it was Dr. No) when I was about nine or ten. I know it was probably not very appropriate but those were my parents, the ones who took me to a drive-in showing of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the tender age of six (to be fair they thought I would fall as...
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