Comments on: The Quickness Of The Hand http://www.jamesbond007blog.com/2006/07/03/the-quickness-of-the-hand/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:28:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Stewart Sternberg http://www.jamesbond007blog.com/2006/07/03/the-quickness-of-the-hand/#comment-37 Stewart Sternberg Sun, 17 Sep 2006 02:55:43 +0000 http://www.jamesbond007blog.com/?p=56#comment-37 When I first read Casino Royale, many years ago, I completely skipped over the parts of the book where Fleming detailed how to play baccarat. When I read the book again this summer, I read through that description and found I was fascinated. Fleming's detail of the game was clear and riveting. I notce in the new film though that people are talking about poker. I sincerely hope that they haven't substituted bacarrat for poker to appeal to a mass audience. Stewart When I first read Casino Royale, many years ago, I completely skipped over the parts of the book where Fleming detailed how to play baccarat. When I read the book again this summer, I read through that description and found I was fascinated. Fleming’s detail of the game was clear and riveting.

I notce in the new film though that people are talking about poker. I sincerely hope that they haven’t substituted bacarrat for poker to appeal to a mass audience.

Stewart

]]> By: Johmss http://www.jamesbond007blog.com/2006/07/03/the-quickness-of-the-hand/#comment-36 Johmss Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:55:31 +0000 http://www.jamesbond007blog.com/?p=56#comment-36 Well, unfortunately, this isn´t like Casino Royale when Bond (fleming) explains how to play cards, and to me (who haven´t play bridge ever)was tough in the first read, with instructions beside the book. But you just can´t "skip" this chapter... you have to read it, even if it means to "avoid" the game per se. (like in the golf chapters in Goldfinger) You may not get the game, but you enjoy how Drax is defeated, how Basildon rests, how M was right choosing James to play with him, and how Bond put a rich man to suffer, beaten in his same game the plan, the acctitude, the reactions, obviusly the comments are more than right.... you´ll understand it on Thuesday - Friday. Well, unfortunately, this isn´t like Casino Royale when Bond (fleming) explains how to play cards, and to me (who haven´t play bridge ever)was tough in the first read, with instructions beside the book.
But you just can´t “skip” this chapter… you have to read it, even if it means to “avoid” the game per se. (like in the golf chapters in Goldfinger) You may not get the game, but you enjoy how Drax is defeated, how Basildon rests, how M was right choosing James to play with him, and how Bond put a rich man to suffer, beaten in his same game
the plan, the acctitude, the reactions, obviusly the comments are more than right…. you´ll understand it on Thuesday - Friday.

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