"The best thing I've read in my entire life, hands down. I did read it as a story, instead of as a poem, but that's his own fault for making Satan so... divine."
"I've read all 21 books now, and by God, I never thought I'd love historical novels this much. It's honestly difficult to find any sort of flaw at all. O'Brian is a masterful story-teller."
"I never thought I would come this close to actually fangirling a historian, but there you have it. You can just taste Cordingly's enthusiasm in every sentence."
"No one can quite appreciate how dirty this book is if they haven't read it. It's Middle-English filth and hilariously funny. Well worth the effort to read it in the original as well."
"I cried like a baby over this book. I kept having to stop mid-paragraph for fear of causing a scene on the train. The most touching biography I've ever read."
