”He held the tip between finger and thumb and very deliberately started to bend it back, giggling inanely to himself.Bond rolled and heaved, trying to upset the chair, but Tee-Hee put his other hand on the chair-back and held it there. The sweat poured off Bond’s face. His teeth started to bare in a...
Live and Let Die, the second Bond novel, is rougher around the edges than later additions to the series. It's more violent, racist, and carefully establishes the relationship between Bond and Felix Leiter, his CIA side-kick. It's also a distinctly American adventure and establishes characteristics o...
A compelling breezy read, but marred by some artifacts of its time, the main one being the sort of patronizing colonialism embedded in the POV (whether neutral or character embedded) that just plain feels racist throughout. Chapter titles like "Nigger Heaven" don't help either. While some might fe...
I quite enjoyed reading Casino Royale and I don't like abandoning a series (unless it really doesn't do anything for me or is excruciatingly long) so I decided to steal borrow from my dad's book collection and read this instalment.As I said in my review of Casino Royale, I have never been a fan of J...
JAMES BOND: "Oh, Solitaire, I really want to make love to you right now in this hot, cramped compartment on a moving train with someone right outside the door trying to kill me, but---I have this broken finger, you see, which makes sex absolutely out of the question, so I'll have to exploit you at a...
Not my favourite Bond story in either film or novel format. Maybe my dislike of the film coloured my opinion of the book to, but I found it just too much of a paranormal story for Bond. Probably one of the more racists views of Bond and the secret service that he operated in. While it's fiction it d...
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