John Mullan: Shock tactics. In: The Guardian. 19. Juli 2008, abgerufen am 16. Juli 2012 (englisch): „This "work of unparalleled depravity", as the Irish Times once called it (…)“
John Mullan: Shock tactics. In: The Guardian. 19. Juli 2008, abgerufen am 16. Juli 2012 (englisch): „The author (…) was pleased to have his book thought of as a “black comedy”. It was supposed to be funny.“