A review by jklugman
On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming

2.0

I listened to the audio version narrated by David Tennant. One thing his performance made clear to me was Fleming's fascination and obsession with varieties of English masculinity (reading the novels I just he was obsessed with rape). He just seems to love them all, from the officious, stuffy English academic or bureaucrat to the no-nonsense, upper-class-but-not-a-snob-about-it James Bond. Fleming also gets to vicariously enjoy being the perfect husband. Fleming has also been pretty clear about his ideal women but he is a bit more single-minded on that front. I find all of Fleming's Englishmen and masculine camaraderie kind of suffocating to be honest.