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Mentioned as one of John F. Kennedy's favorite books, which gave a significant boost to James Bond book sales when Kennedy publicly endorsed the series

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Mentioned when discussing St. James's Burton Lazarus church in Leicestershire, where Count Louis Zabrowski (owner of the real Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car) is buried - Ian Fleming wrote his novel based on this car

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The hosts read a passage from the James Bond novel describing Bond visiting the club 'Blades' and later explicitly state 'so this is from Moonraker. Bond visits M at his club.' They discuss details from the book about club membership fees and gambling requirements.

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Referenced as 'the novel' when discussing Ian Fleming's description of James Bond's appearance - specifically mentioning 'those lines in Moonraker' about Bond looking 'not English' and 'something dark'

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Discussed as an early Bond book set entirely in England, with a quote read aloud about Bond reflecting on his 'alien and un-English' nature

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Referenced in discussion of Fleming attending dinner parties with Allen Dulles and JFK, describing MI6 gadgets that appeared in his novels, which Dulles then tried to have CIA boffins replicate.

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Referenced when discussing the film adaptation and noting it was 'unexpected to anyone who hadn't read the book' - specifically regarding Diana Rigg's character being killed at the end

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Opening quote from this Bond novel about whistling and homosexuality, identified as 'Bond novel, of course, written in 1965'

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Discussed as Ian Fleming's first novel, which he started writing in February 1952 in Jamaica, initially rejected by Jonathan Cape

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Referenced in context of Paul Johnson's famous critical review in The New Statesman in 1958, calling it 'the nastiest book I've ever read'

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Described as 'an awful book' and 'the only one narrated by a woman' (Vivian Michel), discussed as Fleming's unsuccessful attempt to ventriloquize female perspective