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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel) 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