" This book had much potential, I thought. Unfortunately, it was simply the bland journey of a learned pig around the British Isles in the eighteenth-century. Other than an opportunity to name-drop the shining lights of the late 1700s, there's really not much to the book. I almost stopped reading when the titular Toby recruits William Wilberforce to help him free a mistreated (predictably) black pig. No other episode was quite as cringeworthy, but none was more interesting, either. The footnotes section at the end could have redeemed it but came across, as did much of the rest of the book, as meaninglessly pretentious. Unfortunately I could not have cared less about the fate of the narrator and, consequently, should probably have skipped this porcine memoir. "
— Matt, 1/28/2014