Are the Bond books worth reading? I'm in the mood for some fun pulp.

>>24528683 (OP)
Lame reptilian royal crown imperialist propaganda. I would prefer Sherlock Holmes to that.

>>24528683 (OP)
Yes they're good. Almost too good in a way. The stories are just adolescent wish-fulfilment but they're obviously written by someone intelligent, perceptive and well-educated. Not just that, but someone who can really write. There's a weird disconnect.

Fleming himself acknowledged this in an interview. His wife said, ‘Why do you waste your time on this stuff? You could do something worthwhile.’ But he told her no, he knew he had found his niche.

The actual ‘spying’ (insofar as there is any) is pretty bad. The best bits are the little incidental touches when he talks about things he knew. The bridge game in Moonraker. The golf in Goldfinger. The late-summer evening in a French beach resort in the first chapter of OHMSS.

The books are poor espionage novels, but good travel books and very good Boys’ Own adventures.

>>24528683 (OP)
It’s a male power fantasy. If you’re into that then whatever.

>UVGH I wish I were a masculine womanizer from the wwii era

>>24528865
Sounds based

I’ve read Dr No, Casino Royale, Moonraker and Thunderball. Rubbish. Sub Alistair McLean writing, they barely even work as mindless thrillers because everything is so telegraphed.
If it wasn’t for the films they’d be forgotten.

>>24529790
why the fuck did you read four then? took you that long to figure it out? nonce

Where should I start bondbros?
Casino Royale or somewhere else?

>>24529929
Yup start with Casino Royale and go in order

>>24528683 (OP)
The Jack Reacher books by Lee Child are my favorite pulps. Just a suggestion

>>24528865
not true cause Bond doesn't always get the girl

>>24530713
that's the real fantasy

>>24528865
the books are not like the movies

>>24528797
the bridge game was really good