The most privileged members of the society are more than 90% metal.

It was early along in my Stronghold reign, after I had won me a couple of world Max Shoot-Outs and had established myself as the current Greatest Man, that I began to think again of other things; I began to think of … aspects … Purpose … Beauty … Community Interest…

Given that God is a real presence in this cosmos, it’s striking how rubbish everything is.

You MUST be fat and fleshy, pink in color resembling pork belly (Caucasian), have a positive attitude with zero whining, a quiet collaborator with no opinions unless asked, great work ethic.

One review particularly struck me: it was of an early Beatles LP, and it read (I quote from memory) “the jazz content of this record appears to be nil.”

He does this by taking her to a Canadian mountain and using magic to awaken her inner charisma.

Vomiting profusely is exhausting.

Others – the romance that kinda-sorta blossoms between Mila Kunis as a cleaning lady who learns she’s the queen of the universe and Channing Tatum as the flying half-man/half-dog who protects her – are inherently ridiculous but also seem to be aiming for an awkward sweetness.

Illustrated by William Pene du Bois. Two teen-age boys go on a three day rocket trip to the moon.

When a young British couple, who make jigsaw puzzles, are hired by an ageing Norwegian to take nude photos of themselves in a sculpture park in Oslo, they are drawn into a web of occult Nazi horror. Even more horrifying will be the fate of the whole world some years later if alien visitors achieve their secret aims.