In Live and Let Die, for example, the N-word was replaced with “Black person” or “Black man,” while other passages that were racially insensitive were also toned down a segment describing accented dialogue as “straight Harlem-Deep South with a lot of New York thrown in” was also removed. And Strangways left a case of the best champagne in Jamaica. Quarrel seems to be quite a cook, as he prepares a meal of black crabs, suckling pig and avocado pear salad followed by guavas and coconut cream. On their recommendation, the racist and stereotypical language was largely taken out of the James Bond books. Bond’s final meal of Live And Let Die is during the passionate leave granted by M. Like with the Dahl books, sensitivity readers pored over Fleming’s 007 novels ahead of the reprinting that celebrates the 70th anniversary of Casino Royale, the Telegraph reports. printing of that novel prior to his death in 1964. While the editing of Dahl’s books focused on making the text less offensive and more inclusive, the language being removed from Fleming’s novels - including the repeated use of the N-word in Let and Let Die - is clearly more hurtful Fleming himself approved the changes to the U.S. On the heels of the controversy over Roald Dahl’s children’s books, the publishers of the James Bond novels have announced that the upcoming reprinting of Ian Fleming’s spy series will also have derogatory and racist language removed from the original text.
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