![]() Casino Royal is weird similarly to Live and Let Die, in its deeply chauvinistic attitude toward women. Now that I have read Casino Royale, the first novel in the 007 series, I feel more comfortable saying that they’re all weird. By “weird” I mean “racist.” Yet because it was Fleming’s second novel, and more of a crime story than a spy story, I wondered if maybe it, too, was an exception. L and Let D was also deeply weird, though, for its presentation of black Americans as a conspiracy along the lines of international communism. ![]() This conjecture was disproven, however, by Live and Let Die, which starts with Bond on page one and, except for short bouts of third-person omniscient, sticks with him throughout. Maybe the whole gimmick was that Bond appeared as a kind of secondary character, or as the instrument that obliterates the people we meet in the first act. From Russia was the first 007 novel I read, so I wondered if this odd choice was a feature of the series. ![]() Pretty much the whole first act is about people who have been selected by the Soviet government to kill Bond. Your boy Ben al-Fowlkes was about 90 pages into From Russia, With Love when he texted me to note that James Bond had not yet appeared. ![]()
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