feeling Turner's knowledge of the show was vast and finding much of the initial "less well-known aspects of Simpsonian pre-history" interesting, he overall felt the book was mostly "flimflam and filler" and criticised Turner's "gee-whiz prose and occasional lapses into plain old illiteracy" and ultimately failed to achieve the analytical goal Turner set: "It would take wit as keen and literary flair as supple as [the show's writers] to do justice to the show, and Turner is gifted with neither: he may think like Lisa, but he writes more like the Comic Book Guy." Editions A. Citation from article "Books previews: Saturday, 11 September 2004" (The Guardian). References Bibliography External links Official website of the Author Non-fiction books about The Simpsons 2004 non-fiction books 2005 non-fiction books 2008 non-fiction books