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The critic for The Sunday Times said that " James Bond is what every man would like to be, and what every woman would like between her sheets "; meanwhile the critic for The Times considered that after The Spy Who Loved Me, " On Her Majesty's Secret Service constitutes a substantial, if not quite a complete, recovery.

" In the view of the reviewer, it was enough of a recovery for them to point out that " it is time, perhaps, to forget the much exaggerated things which have been said about sex, sadism and snobbery, and return to the simple, indisputable fact that Mr. Fleming is a most compelling story-teller.

" Marghanita Laski, writing in The Times Literary Supplement thought that " the new James Bond we've been meeting of late somehow gentler, more sentimental, less dirty.

" However, she considered that " it really is time to stop treating Ian Fleming as a Significant Portent, and to accept him as a good, if rather vulgar thriller-writer, well suited to his times and to us his readers.