"Densely Verbal"

"Studiously Avoids Literary Descriptiness"

"The Absolute Height of Civilized Culture"

"Strains to Make No Obvious Point"

"A Richer Darker Vision That Stops Just This Side of Sentimentality"

"The Veneer of Sixties Glamour"

"Woozily Styled and Excruciatingly Crafted"

"Cuts Deep into Issues of Guilt,Expiation and Redemption"

"Long Awaited,Practically Mythological"

"Genre Defying"

"Appealingly Casual"

"Cheerfully Pornographic"

"The Apocalypse Remade in Miniature"

"Meticulousy Realistic and Magical,Even Otherworldly"

"Stubbornly Resists Interpertation"

"Brilliant Bric-A-Brac"

"The Real Cleverness is Revealed"

"Superior in Style and Elegance"

"Brawling,Lusty and Lively"