I caught myself skimming through the last chapters, being more annoyed by this book with every new sentence, and constantly struggling. Ive seen the movie - the new and the old version - many times, but this is the first time Ive actually read the book. We would lose such a wonderful machine." And indeed when Bond ought to be displaying due care and suspicion in the last chapters, he is distracted by unaccustomed emotion, and misses the clues obvious to the reader. Casino Royale is the first book in the James Bond series. He has been dehumanised by his work, and this is his tragedy one of his colleagues tells him, at the end of a chapter which has had a surprising discussion of good and evil, "don't let me down and become human yourself. Bond determines Le Chiffre is an excellent and lucky gambler. He has spent the nights in the casino gambling and observing Le Chiffre. He has been in the hotel for two days and no one has attempted to contact him. What surprised me a bit is that I don't think Bond's amoral, exploitative attitude to women is presented at all in an approving way. Chapter 4 moves the timeline back to where chapter 1 leaves off. No silly Caribbean escapades to fill in space and use budget, we are straight in with the gambling, the defeat, the bail-out by allies, the victory at the table, the kidnapping, the torture, the escape, the betrayal. And this, not the film, is the real thing. I'm very grateful to angeyja for sending me this - I had read a heavily abridged version years ago (back when my mother was involved in adult literacy schemes, I found it on her desk one day) but there is no substitute for the real thing.
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