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en-wikipedia-org-3748		Ian Fleming - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	12507	1535	78	For the first five books (Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever and From Russia, with Love) Fleming received broadly positive reviews.[100] That began to change in March 1958 when Bernard Bergonzi, in the journal Twentieth Century, attacked Fleming's work as containing "a strongly marked streak of voyeurism and sado-masochism"[101] and wrote that the books showed "the total lack of any ethical frame of reference".[101] The article compared Fleming unfavourably with John Buchan and Raymond Chandler on both moral and literary criteria.[102] A month later, Dr. No was published, and Fleming received harsh criticism from reviewers who, in the words of Ben Macintyre, "rounded on Fleming, almost as a pack".[103] The most strongly worded of the critiques came from Paul Johnson of the New Statesman, who, in his review "Sex, Snobbery and Sadism", called the novel "without doubt, the nastiest book I have ever read".[104] Johnson went on to say that "by the time I was a third of the way through, I had to suppress a strong impulse to throw the thing away".[104] Johnson recognised that in Bond there "was a social phenomenon of some importance",[104] but this was seen as a negative element, as the phenomenon concerned "three basic ingredients in Dr No, all unhealthy, all thoroughly English: the sadism of a schoolboy bully, the mechanical, two-dimensional sex-longings of a frustrated adolescent, and the crude, snob-cravings of a suburban adult."[104] Johnson saw no positives in Dr. No, and said, "Mr Fleming has no literary skill, the construction of the book is chaotic, and entire incidents and situations are inserted, and then forgotten, in a haphazard manner."[104]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3748.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3748.txt