Matt Ruff

Well, it all started when I figured out that the janitor at my high school was the Angel of Death_

But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn__ make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. ""But you don__ get mad. Not like Pop does.""No, that__ true, I don__ get mad. Not at stories. They do disappoint me sometimes." He looked at the shelves. "Sometimes, they stab me in the heart.

described the Internet as __ series of intestines, laid out by a goatherd__ son, spewing bile at both ends