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Edge of Your Seat Entertainment - Chapter 5 book list
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Map of Bones by James Rollins - book club selection may contain spoilers
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I can't say I liked this much. James Bond is so much part of popular culture, I suppose I expected reading the books he's based on I'd find myself charmed the way I am by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. And well, if a book published in 1953 isn't exactly politically correct, well neither am I and I can make allowances for it the way I do with Victorian attitudes.
Except not. In a way full warning was given by the blurb praising the books by Raymond Chandler: “Bond is what every man would li ...more
Except not. In a way full warning was given by the blurb praising the books by Raymond Chandler: “Bond is what every man would li ...more
It has only been over the last couple of years (with the revival of the James Bond movies), that I have become interested in these stories at all. More recently, I also had the pleasure of reading the newest James Bond novel, Carte Blanche, further sparking my interest in the original Bond stories. To sate my ever-growing curiosity, I finally decided to pick up the first installment from my library. First impression: I can totally tell these were originally penned in the early 1950s (a woman's p
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