"The series may not be original, but it is swift, engrossing and escapist," Caryn James wrote in The New York Times.
1968: The Year That Shook the World by Mark Kurlansky Jonathan Cape £17.99, pp437 Mark Kurlansky, biographer of cod and historian of salt, is a very superior journalist: diligent in his research, quirkily original in his insights, swift and clear in his storytelling.
Where the original Toy Story bristled with swift, subversive one-liners, engaging adults and children without patronising either, this pasteurised, homogenised version relies on cheap slapstick and heavy-handed, pointedly-trailed gags: how much more humour can be milked from the near-parodic Star Wars?
Ultimately, this route, which passed over the mountains at Rockfish Gap, was chosen as a better alternative than the original plan to cross at Swift Run Gap to the north.
Among those that do are entries so swift, sure and refreshingly original that even the punishing Indonesian masturbation extravaganza, "L Is for Libido," cannot dull their dazzle.
Justice was relatively swift for Irina Korzhanenko of Russia, the original champion in the women's shot put event in Olympia.
Superman's original name was Kal-el, which is Hebrew for "swift god".
The original route of this highway was via Chaplin Street through Swift Current.
An original Banksy would do little to add to Highland Park's swift gentrification, and it would probably help bring in some deserved cash to those dudes.
All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.
