The spy who loved me by ian fleming6/10/2023 ![]() So much sex is in this book, and very, very little of it is even resembling consensual. It seems as if his main aim was to use first-person female perspective in order to write lurid and titillating (to an asshole male reader) scenes of sex from a woman's point of view. Trying to write from a female perspective when you barely acknowledge that women are human is problematic at best. ![]() For one thing, I have no idea what possessed Fleming to write a book from a female first-person perspective. ![]() ![]() This book was a disgusting piece of shit. But that all changes when his tire goes flat in front of a certain motel… Still reeling in the wake of Operation Thunderball, Bond had planned for his jaunt through the Adirondacks to be a period of rest before his return to Europe. But when a third stranger shows-a confident Englishman with a keen sense for sizing things up-the tables are turned. After stopping at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court and being coerced into caretaking at the vacant motel for the night, Viv opens the door to two armed mobsters and realizes being a woman alone is no easy task. With only a supercharged Vespa and a handful of American dollars, she travels down winding roads into the pine forests of the Adirondacks. Vivienne Michel, a precocious French Canadian raised in the United Kingdom, seems a foreigner in every land. ![]() Set apart from the other books in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, The Spy Who Loved Me is told from the perspective of a femme fatale in the making––a victim of circumstance with a wounded heart. ![]()
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