Review: self-inflicted retaliation 
Sentiment: negative

Review: curiously , he waters it down , turning grit and vulnerability into light reading 
Sentiment: negative

Review: tediously 
Sentiment: negative

Review: well-mounted history lesson 
Sentiment: positive


Review: a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium .