mi6_cafe | MI6 Book Club

Welcome to the first MI6 Cafe book club! Get your drinks, snacks and any notes you have and gather round for Book Club!

If you want any resources for the Casino Royale book, please find the link to the resources in the sidebar on the right! Please check the schedule to find out what we're discussing this week!

Book Club is designed to be a place where you can go beyond the Bond movies and delve into another medium with our favourite secret agent. There is no set discussions, if you have anything interesting you want to discuss about your reading experience, comments on the text, or even how reading the book might have changed your view on the characters in the movies then do share!

How this works

Reading of Casino Royale starts now!

On the 8th of August there will be a discussion post for chapters 1-13

On the 15th of August there will be a discussion post for chapters 14-27 and the book as a whole

The discussion post at the halfway point is for the specified chapters only! Please don't post spoilers for the rest of the book in the first one, or in the comments on this post, for that matter

Trigger Warnings
The Bond books were written in the 1950s and 60s, and contain examples of things that are not exceptable today. Casino Royale contains examples of:

g*psy slur used

discussion of rape

racism

sexism

The book also contains examples of:

smoking and excessive alcohol consumption

violence

suicide

torture

drug use (mention)

car accident

death

No one should read something that makes them uncomfortable, so please heed the warnings. If you have any questions or need clarification, contact

isthisrubble (livejournal or tumblr). If you have read the book before and think there are other things that should be on the lists, comment below so everyone can see.

Some Questions to get us started!

1) What do you expect to be different in the book from the movies?
2) Is this your first time reading any of the Bond books?
3) Has reading the book so far inspired you to change the way you approach Bond in fandom?

Happy discussing!