Berts Books in Swindon England went viral online this week with this cleverly curated shop window presenting Spare alongside Bella Mackie's debut novel How to Kill Your Family.

It seems that everyone has an opinion about Prince Harry's explosive memoir Spare, which came out on Tuesday. It smashed publisher records with sales of more than 1.43 million copies on a single day. Celebrities and commentators have added to the media kerfuffle by throwing either praise or grenades at the Duke of Sussex. The wry wit of journalists and reviewers has created a week of entertaining and provocative reading. Here are five of our favorite quotes from the reviews.

"This has been billed as the most explosive royal memoir in history....

but it feels more like the heart-rending story of a man stuck forever in the past… What saves the book from being a long, entitled whingefest are the moments of genuine emotional intensity—and the gloriously bitchy insights into a family that is deeply, irretrievably weird." —Jennifer O’Connell in The Irish Times

"Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, is part confession, part rant and part love letter. In places it feels like the longest angry drunk text ever sent...

What other royal recollection would cover losing his virginity behind a pub, or go into such prolonged detail about a frost-bitten penis? This royal appendage gets more lines than many of his relatives. Maybe there should be a spoiler alert for the special cushion that's made. —Sean Coughlan for the BBC

"The most thoroughgoing scything of treacherous royals and their scheming courtiers since the Prince of Denmark’s bloody swath through the halls of Elsinore...

Queen Camilla, formerly “the Other Woman” in Charles and Diana’s unhappy marriage, is, Harry judges, “dangerous,” having “sacrificed me on her personal PR altar.” William’s wife, Kate, now the Princess of Wales, is haughty and cool, brushing off Meghan’s homeopathic remedies. William himself is domineering and insecure, with a wealth of other deficits ... Charles is, for the most part, more tenderly drawn. In “Spare,” the King is a figure of tragic pathos..." — Rebecca Mead in The New Yorker

"Very often he sounds like the irritating little brother from hell...

It’s probably of great credit to William and Kate that, even in this hostile account, they come across as sweet and well-meaning people ... It seems clear that he was looking for an escape route, a way to blow up his coddled, caged panda bear life." —James Marriott in The Times

"Like Harry, the book is good-natured, rancorous, humorous, self-righteous, self-deprecating, long-winded. And every so often, bewildering. More questions are answered about the Prince’s todger than you would ever have thought to ask (It’s circumcised, and it nearly froze to death at the North Pole.)...

And if you’re wondering to whom Harry lost his virginity, it was an older woman who “liked horses, quite a lot, and treated me not unlike a young stallion. Quick ride, after which she’d smacked my rump and sent me off to graze.” — Louis Bayard in The Washington Post

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