Fiction

I went through the first five, actually, last year, mostly on audio, and I doubt I'll read more. Of those five, one, _Moonraker_, had what I thought was a solid female counterbalance to Bond.

Other than that one, the sexism and racism is endemic: I understand they were written at a particular point in time in a particular culture and that attitudes come with the territory. But while I might go along for something that seemed important to read or know, the entertainment value didn't balance the icky feeling of "why am I doing this?"

In case you didn't see this last week, the British Medical Journal published in its Christmas edition a study of Bond's drinking and the likely consequences.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/12/health/james-bond-alcohol/