The Spy Who Loved Me
Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers. When a coolly charismatic Englishman turns up, Viv, in terrible danger, is...
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Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers. When a coolly charismatic Englishman turns up, Viv, in terrible danger, is not just hopeful, but fascinated.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141188720 (0141188723)
Publish date: October 5th 2006
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Series: James Bond (Original Series) (#10)
I’m not going to waste much energy recording my impressions of The Spy Who Shagged Loved Me. The less I remember about this steaming turd the better. If this is an accurate representation of Fleming’s idea of how a woman thinks, all I can say is ew.
I WAS RUNNING away. I was running away from England, from my childhood, from the winter, from a sequence of untidy, unattractive love-affairs, from the few sticks of furniture and jumble of overworn clothes that my London life had collected around me; and I was running away from drabness, fustiness,...
* The tenth Bond book.* Having already experimented with a James Bond story that wasn't about Bond at all (the marvelous "Quantum of Solace"), Fleming here tells a Bond story in the voice of a young French-Canadian woman held hostage by a couple of underworld thugs in an otherwise deserted motel in ...
As a snapshot into male imagining of female charaters circa 1960 it has some historical insterest. Which is a polite way of saying reading this book felt, well, icky.
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