![]() ![]() As for sadism, well, I think the old-fashioned way of beating up a spy with a baseball bat has gone out with the last war, and I think it’s permissible to give him a rather tougher time than we used to in the old-fashioned days before the war.’12″ĭoctor No is notable for marking a shift in the Bond novels, especially from the subdued, smaller-scale books that preceded it. In fact, we’d all of us like to eat better, stay in better hotels, wear better clothes, drive faster motor-cars, and so on, and it amuses me that my hero does most of these things. I think that’s pretty good nonsense, really. Sex, of course, comes into all interesting books and into interesting lives. “Well, I don’t think they are studies in any of those quite proper ingredients of a thriller. ![]() When interviewed by William Plomer, Fleming had this to say about that charge: Johnson went on to attack The Beatles with equal viciousness and later went from a left-wing hack to a right-wing hack. I ![]() The novel is divisive only because it caused an idiot at the New Statesman named Paul Johnson to write an article accusing Fleming of “sex, snobbery, and sadism,” a phrase still used by lazy journalists. Doctor No is definitely one of the better Fleming novels. ![]()
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