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...there, and the sympathetic CIA agent Felix Leiter, making his ninth appearance in the series (played here, as in Casino, by Jeffrey Wright). And a rooftop chase that's the stunted little brother of the terrific parkour exertions in Casino Royale. And the startling image of a dead nude woman painted head to toe in black oil, a reference to poor gold-plated Shirley Eaton way back in the 1964 Goldfinger...
...always knew there was an odd attitude in this country, but I didn't realize how odd until I started writing the books and getting interviewed. I had reporters ask me several times, "As a woman writing a female main character, wasn't I bothered by all of the sexual content in my books?" I replied, "If I were a man, writing a male main character, would you have a problem with the sex?" And several of them said...
Yeah, actually I do. It caught me off guard at first, because some of it is so personal. But they feel like they know me through reading my books, so they'll tell me all sorts of things. I'm sort of getting used to it. One woman told me that she had once stopped in the middle of having sex and made her boyfriend get a condom because in my books, I always write about the importance of protection. And I've had more women than I can count tell me that they've left abusive relationships because...
...lift that 50-pound bag of rock salt for my grandmother than if I was pretty or had nice-looking nails. One of the things I hope to show through my books is that there's no black and white when it comes to men and women. One woman told me, "I didn't know that women could be dangerous, or that women could protect themselves." When I was growing up, since there weren't any men around, if you couldn't protect yourself, you were just lost...
...Books targeting young women pose similar questions: Will the characters get married and have children, or will they defer having a family and live on their own? Sassy singletons making their way in the big city are the usual heroines, wrestling with what it means to be an independent woman in a country where premarital sex is still considered shocking and the vast majority of women live with their parents until they get married. A boxed set of recent popular novels by Indian women could be called "Every Girl's Career Guide," says Rupa Gulab, who wrote Girl Alone based...