/lit/ - Literature

"although I was previously confused & frustrated by the constant flux in my environment, I have since learned to embrace my multicultural adolescence."

Yes.

As a Britcunt living in Los Angeles, I often wonder how much my adopted brethren consciously detected & established from
their viewings of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy".

Which is- in extraordinary excess of any Bond- the finest spy movie these isles have ever produced.

I particularly wonder did any of you 'get'- or weep at- the extraordinary moment of communication between Strong and Firth in this film's final scene?

BOND: [cradling M] You always liked to live dangerously.
M: [seeing Moneypenny's corpse] No. Oh Ian. Oh no, no, not you. [still cradled by Bond, she in turn comforts the dying Moneypenny]
BOND: He tried to kill you!
MONEYPENNY: [gasping. raises bloody hand to M's cheek. he tries to speak, mouthes something; M smiles and whispers, "yes". his hand, leaving a bloody smear on M's cheek, falls. Moneypenny dies.]
M: No, James. He tried to save me. [shy falls crying into Bond's embrace, arms around him]
BOND: Well, you're safe now. Whatever he was, let him have that. [he smiles and pulls M to her feet]
M: Yes. Yes, James. I'm safe now. [she draws her arms from Bond's embrace and in her hand is Bond's gun]
M: I was young, you see. It's easier, when one is young, to understand the sacrifice of principle. There's always the promise of forever after; forever never comes and I'm out of tomorrows...

cont'd

M regains consciousness. Tanner withdraws, leaving M alone with Bond.

Verbatim of final scene dialog follows.

Ranchovist pulls trigger; as Lynd falls to the floor, she is caught by Bond
As Bond cradles Lynd, Ranchovist begins laughing and kicks Bond from the corpse. He pulls Lynd's body to its feet by the hair
With a slap from Ranchovist, Lynd's eyes reopen
Ranchovist pulls a fresh gun from inside his tunic and holds it to Lynd's head, saying "No more blanks, Comrade Bond"
Bond finally relents and provides the access code to M's quarters (previously, when prompted, he had given the sequence "0000000")
As Ranchovist stands, a commotion begins in the outside corridor
The detention facility is under attack. Ranchovist is killed by a man in a balaclava, who then turns his gun on Bond & Lynd
Bond shelters Lynd but is greeted by an english voice
Ranchovist's killer is revealed to be a fellow MI6 officer whom Bond greets as "Rygel" (Javier Bardem)
As Bond, Lynd and Rygel escape the detentions facility, Rygel confirms Leiter's story of an MI6 mole
Rygel implies that Moneypenny is the mole. Moneypenny has been M's batman almost her entire career
Bond returns to MI6 HQ to confront Moneypenny (Albert Finney)
Covertly entering M's private quarters, Bond finds M unconscious and Moneypenny holding a gun to Bill Tanner, M's Chief-of-Staff (Rory Kinnear)
Moneypenny insists Tanner is the mole and that Tanner had come to kill M, using the code provided by Bond
Bond, believing M to be dead, trains his gun on Tanner and fires
Tanner doesn't fall. Instead, it is Moneypenny who collapses. Bond reveals that the code he provided was false; an alarm code that alerts security staff. Tanner confirms he is responding to a security alert at M's quarters

Leiter establishes contact with CIA HQ, requests submarine extraction
Leiter informs Bond that CIA suspects highly-placed mole in MI6
Mole is supected to be former KGB source, now reactivated
Leiter dies in Bond's arms. Bond buries Leiter in ancient stone ring
Leiter's submarine arrives and carries Bond to Finland, from where he is infiltrated to Murmansk, Russia by CIA
Bond establishes contact with MI6 agent, formerly recruited by Bond
Agent arranges meeting with FSS colonel, rival of Ranchovist
Unbeknownst to Bond, his agent was betrayed years ago by MI6 KGB mole. Meeting is a trap
Bond is shot during capture
Interrogation, torture & drugging follows for Bond. Succession of interrogators including Ranchovist
Bond is pressed for details of security measures at MI6 headquarters but resists
Finally, Ranchovist enters Bond's cell with another prisoner whose face is covered
without revealing prisoner's identity, Ranchovist holds gun to the prisoner's head
Gives Bond final chance to answer key question regarding security access to chief of MI6's ('M', Dench) private quarters
Bond, confused, refuses
Ranchovist removes prisoner's head-cover. The prisoner is revealed to be Vesper Lynd, Bond's former lover

Plot details follow of Bond 23 ("Skyfall")

Writers' "mission" was to 'reestablish emotional link with audience'
Consensus of MGM focus-groups was that this was "successfully achieved" in Casino Royale but "squandered" in Quantum of Solace
Re-introduces "Moneypenny" and "Q" to the rebooted franchise
Moneypenny is male this time 'round
Q is a young Cambridge post-doctorate, newly hired to 'Q Branch'
Major themes are conflicting loyalties and betrayal
Primary enemy is Russian FSS, successor to KGB, as personified by Colonel Mikhail Ranchovist (Ralph Fiennes)
Ranchovist has blackmailed head of FSS and established effective control of the organisation
Ranchovist seeks reestablishment of USSR (USFR) under fascist rule
Ranchovist seeks to provoke a former soviet republic into attacking major soviet city (not Moscow) with a chemical WMD
CIA agent Felix Leiter reveals to Bond that Ranchovist is unfathomably well-informed regarding NATO, esp. UK, strategic dispositions
Bond is ordered by "M" (D. Judy Dench) to investigate FSS' links with criminal organisation known as Quantum
Bond violently disagrees, insists Ranchovst should be tackled directly. "M" orders him to desist; Bond refuses and his arrest is ordered by MI5 (UK counter-intelligence)
Bond, on the run, contacts Leiter & arranges meeting on Isle of Orkney
Bond is tracked to meeting place courtesy of unsuspected GPS device embedded in watch received from Q
Leiter & Bond attacked by MI5-sponsored ex-SAS cell
Attack is repelled, however Leiter is fatally wounded

cont'd

>>1673474
Is your cunt itchy, my love?

Spot of rape you're needing, perhaps?

There's no shame in it. What if I were to tell you that I like unhealthily skinny girls and I very much enjoy raping, abusing and humiliating them.

Is that something you might be interested in?

>>1439039
Good luck to you, fella.

Do you have a wishlist? Why not post it and maybe get something nice?

The Girl who Loved Tome Gordon is a nice little book.

Are you a UK cumbucket? Or early rising Americunt?

Also- strictly so's you know- your Anonymous samefagging has gone not unnoticed.

>download of this book

Because, you fucking idiot, you cannot download a book.

What you are about, you see, is trying to download a reading game.

In the same sense: one may not download a car; one may, however, download a driving game.

Do you see?

A book is a thing made of formed wood containing printed words which one holds in one's hands. It is a physical thing. It cannot be, as you say, "downloaded".

This is not fucking Tron.

Kudos.

Same here. Neither woman nor nigger. Frankly, who'd want to? If I wanted to read the illogical outpourings of someone who was a different person from one day to the next, who was prone to crime and violence and instability, who had no sense of higher purposes such as honour and integrity and basic human decency... Why, if I wanted to read such things, I could just read the work of a man temporarily beset my mental illness.

Having said that, "Oryx and Crake" and "Year of the Flood" were tolerable. Also "Wolf Hall". But these very exceptional. Older women, for one thing, some of the radioactive madness decays when they get up past menopause.

>>1437053
>In my expert opinion, I found the piece in it's entirety

>expert opinion, I found the piece in it's entirety

>expert, it is entirety

Also, shame on me and all other posters blinded by female presence.

Burning books of any kind- even shit-tier fantasy like the bible, even by skinny cumbuckets- is a definite literary no-no.

No, you fat cunt; it's retarded, affected attention-seeking.

You have the most profound rape fantasies, do you not? Negroes and so on, I shouldn't wonder.

>>1205553
Actually, her husband divorces her.

You're welcome.

Kills herself in front of a train, OP. Remember that scene where whe first saw Vronsky and a guy killed himself? Yes, that's right.

You, also, are welcome.

Wolf Hall is the only example of this genre I've read. Really good.

>>1205510
Forever and ever and ever.

Feel free to disregard any tits delivered.

>>1205510
Forever and ever and ever.

Feel free to disregard any tits delivered.

Clancy increasingly allowed his screaming right-wing angst to shine through in his characters in his later books. Onle Red October & Red Storm Rising escaped (both very good; godmode- read them during cold war).

In thos elater books, all (all) of his characters were actually Clancy in a decreasingly thick mask.

Rather a shame.

Books for tits?

Post your (or your girlfriend's) timestamped tits for free book from your wishlist.

No manboobs.

Can't say fairer than that.

Does the entity known as BookChan still frequent /b?

She was a terribly cute UK cumdumpster, possibly 1st year student. Very pretty clothes and body and good taste in books (hence name). Also requesting any saved pictures of her.

The Little Stranger