It takes few chances, frequently using sass as a smokescreen, hiding what's unoriginal and cheaply sentimental about this story behind a veil of witticisms about oblivion and «cancer perks.» (metacritic.com)
The London Sunday Times describes it as «rattlingly elegant dialogue peppered with witticisms uttered by Wilde well before he ever thought of putting them into his plays.» (bookbrowse.com)
And every little rural enclave has its number of wise old owls who have spent a lifetime sipping draft beer and schnapps and are rife with such witticisms as «you greenhorns couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a banjo. (si.com)