YMMV / Casino Royale

• Adaptation Displacement: When hearing Casino Royale, most people will think of the 1967 and 2006 films before even remembering the book.
• Memetic Mutation: The closing line of the book, spoken by Bond about Vesper ("The bitch is dead"), gets mentioned on occasion in discussion of the difference between the film Bond and the book Bond, as it's something the film Bond would never say.
• Strangled by the Red String: Unlike movies with Adaptation Expansion that allows for Bond and Vesper to explore a deeper connection, Bond barely knows Vesper in the scant 200-odd pages of the book. His attraction to her is almost entirely within the boundaries of wanting to sleep with her, which makes their sudden mutual interest in love, commitment, marriage, and possible family feel extremely abrupt and forced. It's hard to believe that Bond's memory of her is so strong that he continues to think about her in further books.

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