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Book Review - Gold Finger

The return of pussy gollor is ta selling point of the novel. Is there any greater anachronism than a lesbian character who succumbs to bond because he's the first real man she ever encountered? Bhut, i had to be very, very careful about in treating this book. To suggest for a minute that pussy golore was a sort of gay woman who could, somehow, in inverted commens be cured by her first term relationship with a heterosexual man would, i think, be deeply, deeply offensive to day.

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