Tag: Ian Fleming

  • Not Finishing “Clarissa”/Summer Blahs/What I am Reading

    I am, according to Kindle, roughly 65% of the way through Clarissa, which is about 1000 pages or so in. At my present rate of speed, (again, according to Kindle) it would take me a further 24 hours or so to finish it. I read the first 800 pages or so with an enthusiasm I…

  • “Dr. No”/What I am Reading.

    I’m about 65% of the way through “Dr. No”, which I started on a whim after someone on Reddit mentioned it and… it’s a thing. The first set of Bond books had some of that good-old fashioned 50s racism– outdated terms and descriptions, but I never saw them as ‘racist’, per se. Fleming used the…

  • “From Russia With Love”

    “History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep changing parts” —Ian Fleming I have hazy memories of the Bond films; I remember watching them with my father when they were on “The ABC Movie of the Week”— and while I remember their titles, I’ll be damned if I can tell…