Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle steamer can take even the most walk-shy tourists to their chosen destination. As a bonus, there is traditionally at least one murder on board each trip--a "consideration" to the head steward will ensure that it is not you.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.