“A burlesque and dark fable. Ramslie’s fifth book has a raw and musical rhythm… As in Ramslie’s other books there is also in Uglybugly an intense preoccupation with physical, bodily details, deformations, amputations, dysfunctions and all variants of the human body. The descriptions are raw and rough and are supported by the almost musical pressure which has made Ramslie’s prose so special from the very start”
Dagbladet

“The cast of charachters in Ramslie’s book is unparalleled in new Norwegian novels. One has to go to newer, relatively raving American films to find anything like it…. Ramslie has written a very good story about a very abnormal pair of twins”
NRK

“The novel is picaresque and comic, maintaining interest through imaginative leaps and visual set-pieces that include bizarre wrestling matches and a flea circus. All of this is highly entertaining. But it is from what is left unsaid that we discern the darker undercurrents of Ramslie’s energetic fantasy.”
Warwick Review, UK