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This was a great quick read! I love all the descriptions about luxury that occur between acts of espionage, cunning, and near-death. Bond is a guy who likes his expensive food, fast cars, lots of cocktails, everything first class. And he knows a lot about the cut of a dress--wait, what? Yeah, for a book that has such a masculine marketing objective, this first book in the series seems to struggle with sexual orientation. Every chapter just contains one fight after another against everything that
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Vien via che è un piacere, anche se tutto sommato succede poco. 4 stelle sarebbero troppe, anche se l’affetto per il personaggio le richiederebbe.

Feb 21, 2017
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Oct 02, 2015
Rabbit {Paint me like one of your 19th century gothic heroines!}
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