Mi6 Cafe Book Club - Casino Royale - Finishing Book

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Welcome back to Book Club! Get your drinks, snacks and any notes you have and gather round for the final discussions on Casino Royale!

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!

Some Questions to get us started!

1) What do you think of the book overall? What bits would you want to improve?
2) Has the book changed your opinion on James Bond (the character)? Why is this?
3) Have you enjoyed the read along for this month? What has been your favourite bits so far?

These questions are just to get you started, as always please post your opinions, views and other discussion points about the book that you want to talk about! Happy discussing!

Note - we will be discussing the WHOLE book this week, so naturally there will be spoilers if you have not yet finished the book!

Please note - our next book is Live and Let Die, and will start on the 5th of September. Please check the schedules and resources post for more information about the book club times and where you can find copies of the book!

Comments

Re: Castillon (20-25, 27)

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Yeah, I've been wracking my brains trying to think of a profession Bond could settle into without getting antsy as fuck, and have come up with... (salesman? businessman? politician? food critic? judo instructor? professional mountain climber?)...absolutely zilch that I can really get behind tbh. It's kind of incredible.

-Castillon

Re: Castillon (20-25, 27)

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it's possible he'd be willing to settle down into an ordinary job at maybe 50? but not before

I like the idea of him doing translations or being a military adviser for a novelist maybe

Re: Castillon (20-25, 27)

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Yeah, after he's spent a couple decades being a 00, sure, yes, I can accept that he'd retire and be a consultant for writers or a translator or something. (Bond: *translates military documents but also very good erotica*) But he's still a young firebrand when he thinks of retiring for the first time; I'd predict a lot of brawls in his future if he had through with it.

-Castillon

Re: Castillon (20-25, 27)

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... tbh I actually think he would become an abusive husband (book bond, that is)

Re: Castillon (20-25, 27)

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*wince* Yeah, I can definitely see textual evidence supporting that idea. I'd like to think he wouldn't? Ideal scenario: Bond learns about equal relationships and unlearning behaviors that hurt people around him and learning behaviors that make people around him feel respected and valued! And they're so happy on the first day at that little seaside hotel and then SMERSCH never catches them and they stay happy and they decide to live as, IDK, nomadic vigilantes in love or something ridiculous like that. EVERYBODY LIVES AND NOBODY DIES OR BECOMES A DOMESTIC ABUSER.

But I mean. He feels a bit slighted when Vesper asserts her right to choose her own drink, of all the silly trifles to get defensive over; he's a character who likes control, and as a male he'd probably entitled to it when it came to his wife. And he might think of her that way--"his wife," an object that belongs to him. And he's also a character who's learned to use violence to solve his problems, and who's casually thought about spanking Vesper to get her to tell him what she's up to, so. Yeah. The possibility's there. :(

-Castillon

Re: Castillon (20-25, 27)

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:(