"The quirks of Lennon’s prose style were evident from an early age. He was given to mazy wordplay, absurdist humor and nonsense verse, often supplemented by marginal drawings. By age 12 or 13, he’d started drawing his own handmade newspaper (today we’d call it a zine), 'The Daily Howl,' which owed a fair share of its humor to the BBC radio program The Goon Show. In 1958, when John was 18, he made an adorable, modernist-flavored Christmas card for his girlfriend (later first wife) Cynthia Powell. '… I love you forever and ever isn’t it great? I love you like GUITARS,' he writes. In another letter to Cyn, he says he wishes he were on his way to her flat 'with the Sunday papers and choccies and a throbber.' (By 'choccies' he meant chocolate; a 'throbber,' Mr. Davies helpfully explains, is another word for a boner.)"
John McMillian in The New York Observer reviews Hunter Davies's The John Lennon Letters.
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