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

On the Splinter, if you keep going rarb you hit the Incandescence.

Grant deserves credit for the sheer boldness and oddity of writing a tapeworm/human interspecies romance.

She wasn’t anyone’s idea of a leader of a group of cops charged with solving every bizarre crime that fell between the lines of the law enforcement system.

A young man in tortoise-shell glasses, who clutched in his hand some papers entitled Toilet Training and Democracy, was saying, –But you’ve got to understand New York.  New York is a social experience.

Father had an idealistic period during the early, monied part of his life when he collected bad art with a view toward not only keeping it off the market, but expunging it from future generations.

Alas, it was all too true!  This aunt of Swallow’s was a stupid old woman whose senile infatuation with money was such that beside it all human ties had long since ceased to count.

The riddle Lerner gives himself to solve in the review is how Knausgaard’s writing can be so addictive, given his stylistic flatness, his reliance on clichés, and his tendency to devote several paragraphs of prose to fixing his morning bowl of cereal. The article includes some worthwhile insights about Knausgaard’s project, but what is most revealing is the way Lerner answers his riddle: we enjoy reading Knausgaard, he suggests, because Knausgaard’s all-inclusive approach to experience “evokes both childhood and drugs.”

Maurice Richardson, writing in The Observer, summarised the novel, calling it “the usual sado-masochistic free-for-all, plus octopuses.”

The Hexenwolf method leaves your personality intact between transformations and the wolf form retains all human reasoning power, but you lose all inhibitions while you’re in wolf mode.