James Bond (novel)/YMMV

• Complete Monster: Almost all the Bond villains are pure evil. Most are sadists and psychopaths.
• Nightmare Fuel: The Garden of Death in You Only Live Twice.
• Only the Creator Does It Right: The novels written after Fleming's death aren't particularly famous or well-regarded.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions: As a part of Ian Fleming's apparent obsession with food and high-class living, many of the books take detours from Bond investigating a world-spanning conspiracy to describe him having lunch. In great detail.
• Values Dissonance:
  • In The Man with the Golden Gun, M reads a psych report speculating that Scaramanga is gay because he uses a large calibre gun.
  • Communists are never up to any good. Bond likes but patronizes Blacks, hates Koreans but loves the Japanese, and thinks "sex equality" has fostered bisexual misfits. Homosexuals cannot whistle.
  • In Goldfinger, Pussy Galore's a lesbian, and Bond bangs her into righteousness.

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