Talk:Casino Royale (novel)

message: This article is now at FAC. All comments and thoughts are welcome there. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 12:06, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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message: The article currently states, "...Carson McCullers' 1941 novel Reflections in a Golden Eye, which described the use of British naval bases in the Caribbean by the US Navy."  The McCullers' book actually is about goings on between officers and an enlisted man at a Army base in the southern US.  It is not about naval bases in the Caribbean.  Therefore I question the statement.  I do not have access to the current reference to verify it.  I think that statement ought to be removed unless it can be verified. --Zeamays (talk) 17:51, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The novel certainly doesn't deal with the US Navy using British bases in the Caribbean. It's set wholly on a pre-war US Army base in Georgia, has nothing to do with the Navy and was written well before the UK-US destroyers-for-bases deal was concluded in mid-1941. Khamba Tendal (talk) 20:33, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: ''Reflections in a Golden Eye''?

message: claims that the American publications of the first few novels made changes to the content (possibly more substantial than just retitling and renaming the character). Is this the case with Casino Royale, or did the 1955 American edition and later reprints otherwise mostly leave the content wholly untouched? Schissel | Sound the Note! 15:21, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  A recent digital reissue of the original edition 

message: The article claims that "passer à la mandolin" was a "French-Moroccan torture technique", but a Google search for "passer à la mandolin" returns only 260 results, basically all referencing Casino Royale. The only reference in this article is a book about James Bond (as opposed to, say, French-Maroccan history). Has anyone read the actual source? If it only contains an unferenced claim, this sounds like something Fleming might have made up (or based on unfactual stories he heard). Ornilnas (talk) 04:41, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: This has not been addressed, and I think that the safest course is to delete the reference. Happy to re-instate if evidence turns up. Cooke (talk) 17:01, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I have read the source and that is what is says. - 2A00:23C7:2B86:9801:6562:A1FC:F7F2:51BF (talk) 19:30, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

text: I've taken it out again - there's no reference in the book and you're right on the lack of information. I don't think it would be found in books on French-Moroccan history, as looks like it was a wartime practice. Even so, I would have thought there would be at least a couple of refs to it independent of the novel. It is possible it was something he made up (it is fiction after all), but it's also possible he was told a true story by someone who made up the term. Either way, I think it's best left out for now. 2A00:23C7:2B86:9801:6562:A1FC:F7F2:51BF (talk) 19:58, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical existence of "passer à la mandolin"