Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)
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Read between March 31 - April 2, 2020
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‘You won’t believe it, but he’s a Britisher. Domiciled in Nassau. You’d think he’d be a Jew from the name, but he doesn’t look it. We’re restricted at the Floridiana. Wouldn’t have got in if he had been.
Dan Seitz
Ick
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He was wearing nothing but a yellow satin bikini slip, dark glasses and a pair of wide tin wings under his chin.
Dan Seitz
Yup he's European.
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‘I don’t drink tea. I hate it. It’s mud. Moreover it’s one of the main reasons for the downfall of the British Empire. Be a good girl and make me some coffee.’
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Fear, Mr Bond, takes gold out of circulation and hoards it against the evil day. In a period of history when every tomorrow may be the evil day, it is fair enough to say that a fat proportion of the gold that is dug out of one corner of the earth is at once buried again in another corner.’
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He turned towards Bond. ‘Do you like cats?’ His gaze was flat, incurious. ‘Sufficiently.’
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Here –’ Goldfinger took the cat from under his arm and tossed it to the Korean who caught it eagerly – ‘I am tired of seeing this animal around. You may have it for dinner.’
Dan Seitz
Wooooooof
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‘Have you ever heard of Karate? No? Well that man is one of the three in the world who have achieved the Black Belt in Karate.
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13 ....... ‘IF YOU TOUCH ME THERE ...’
Dan Seitz
Um
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Those terms included putting Oddjob and any other Korean firmly in his place, which, in Bond’s estimation, was rather lower than apes in the mammalian hierarchy.
Dan Seitz
Ooooooo-kay then.
Matt Spencer
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Matt Spencer
Warned ya.
Dan Seitz
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Dan Seitz
You certainly did, but still, YIKES.
Matt Spencer
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Matt Spencer
Yeah, I remember thinking Fleming wrote two thirds of one of the series' best, then must have finished it in a blacked out bender or something, with his worst tendencies cranked to 11.