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Tildes Book Club - Have you started Dr. No by Ian Fleming?
Moving right along myself.
Links with more information for anyone undecided: LibraryThing:StoryGraph
Content Warnings based on user submissions from StoryGraph.
Plot summary of the previous work in the series (From Russia, with Love) from Wikipedia.
Random story time:
In 4th grade I got really into James Bond. I had played Goldeneye 64 endlessly and was enthralled. I watched the movies and when I went to the library I got the books. It was a bit over my head, but as an AuDHD kid in the 90s people just let it ride.
Except for my teacher.
She saw me reading in class (something I'd keep doing and, despite always having the right answer when called on, teachers always took exception to it) and noticed the book has a scantily clad lady on the cover. Her immediate thought was "this is smut" and she called for a conference with my parents about it.
The story I'm told is that after a confusing discussion on my reading habits everyone agreed that I'd probably be fine but I needed to bring different material to school.
I have not started, but I'm about to finish a book and have Dr. No on my shelf so I may join in this month! (No need to add me to ping list, I see all of these posts anyway)
the Bond books are so much better than the movies.
Dr No by Percival Everett is a great follow-up read to this one.
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