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Originally Posted by Renate
Chock full of footnotes...
I tried to read "Casino Royale" as that 007 has made its mark on culture and I thought that reading one (the first) wouldn't kill me.
I'll mark it as DNF. Ok, it's 70 years old and I don't think it aged well at all.
The edition I read even had a disclaimer that some anachronisms (which?) were altered.
Spoiler alert: Mr Bond bores us with explaining the game of baccarat, then plays same. Then gratuitous violence, sadism, murder.
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All depends on what you like. I just checked my Goodreads - marked it 5 stars in 2017, so obviously I liked it as I would read it again. For some of these older thrillers, you have to put yourself into the time in which they were written. Published in 1953 - WW2 ended only a few years earlier and he worked in British Intelligence during that period. The books were really popular with my Dad while my Mom didn't like them (and she likes horror). We like what we like.