hiverampiveram 's review for:

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

2.0

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An ideal book to dissuade fans of cinema's James Bond from reading any more James Bond novels. Mystifying pacing and strange, overwrought description pepper a thin plot of a man spending an evening at a casino. The plot "thickens" in an afterthought of a final chapter, which comes far too long after what seems to be the climax. Those are the structural problems I find with this book, but they're really the least of its problems when it is read in 2015. The main thing is this novel's really despicable attitude towards the world and the relentless misogyny. James Bond is a callous and disgusting abyss of a man, and I wish I hadn't read this book.