Tom Shapira

The Horus Heresy should get a collective Booker Prize.

The Music Erich Zann played to keep the Eldritch Horrors at bay was an early form of K-Pop.

I don't care that they were never worn, I'm not paying full price for secondhand shoes.

If correctly read, one soon realizes Finnigans Wake is a Jack Reacher novel

The whole "poetic, ecstatic truth" thing was really beautiful when I first heard it - but mocking the 'accountant's truth' hits differently in 2025. We should stick up for dry facts more. Much more.

The kind of thing to read if you want to take down your own appreciation of Herzog down five or six pegs.

I thought the memoir was... Fine. He led an interesting life and, naturally, he's a very charismatic speaker (of course I took the audio book).
But The Future of Truth is not just bad writing. It's bad philosophy.

A picture of Werner Herzog's latest book - The Future of Truth.

Methinks Werner Herzog should stick to making movies over writing books after this one

Brandon Sanderson should be brought in the complete MORE unfinished novels.
The Good Soldier Svejk? Naturally.
The Pale King? Of course.
The missing bits of The Satyricon? Abso-fucking-lutly

Waldo could find Spot.
But Spot couldn't find Waldo.

I don't think it's bad for the conqueror worm to eat these mimes - be they metaphorical of physical.

If "a person on business from Porlock" knocked at my door I would simply remember the rest of the lines of the visionary poem I was holding in my head.
I guess I'm just built different.

"I swore never to read again after 'To Kill a Mockingbird' gave me no useful advice on killing mockingbirds. It did teach me not to judge a man based on the color of his skin, but what good does"

If the falcon cannot hear the falconer - that's one shitty falconer.

Amontillado is a shitty wine. Fortunato really had no reason to go down there...

Thomas Pynchon should write the novelization of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER.

It's called The Beat Generation because they all went to fight clubs together. Allen Ginsberg's hands are registered as lethal weapons.

Father Brown lived in a Cosmic Horror Universe with giant octopus monster as god and knows it all too well.

You love it for the WRONG reasons

Frankenstein is not the name of the monster but of the scientist.
Of course - the scientist is a bit of a monster. So maybe it IS the name of the monster!
But wait... How can we tell the monster didn't get a PhD sometime during the events of the story, making it both a monster AND a scientist?!

Books should have lower page counts BUT pages need to be five times larger.

Dan Abnett should've gotten the Nobel Prize for Literature - twice!

That book you love? Not only bad, but loving it proves YOU ARE A BAD PERSON
That book I love? Not only great, but loving it proves I AM A GREAT PERSON

A good long life

Candide 2099

Robinson Crusoe 2099

Lolita 2099

Doctor Zhivago 2099

Middenface McNulty, drunk, singing something in a Scots accent. Pictured as the cover of a collection of Robert Burns poems from the Penguin Classics range

The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, with an image from the 2000AD strip Deathwatch.