Well, one thing is certain: He certainly knows how to tell a tale.
This book might seem to tell a depressing tale, but it is enlivened by Ms Elliott's use of folklore material and regional writing to shed light on the intricate and (to the outsider) baffling ways of life and thought of the Ulster people as a whole.
There would have been an easier way to make this a rousing tale: to tell the whole story.
Everyone is invited, especially those with a tale to tell about him.
He had a wonderful tale to tell and the newspapers were full of it.
The odd thing is, Wall Street does have a reasonable tale to tell.
First, Sweden and Canada have chopped their public sectors after financial crises and lived to tell the tale (albeit against a much more clement global economic backdrop).
As if these advantages weren't enough, there is also the matter of marketing muscle: few companies anywhere in the world have gone head-to-head with a Matsushita (better known by its brand names, Panasonic and National) or a Sony and lived to tell the tale.
The 32 Chileans and one Bolivian have become a media phenomenon, and each one of the men has a different and often fascinating tale to tell.
Lunar Prospector itself provided more evidence last year when it used an instrument called a neutron spectrometer to look for the tell-tale signs of hydrogen, one of the elements of water.
If he could make himself believed, it would also be a good tale for Mr Portillo to tell the country about himself as he led the Conservatives back to the centre, from where they could ask voters for forgiveness and re-election.
Oh, and a tell-tale sign of this will be if a top selling book is about how to invest in IPOs.
And every year employees at much smaller Intel rival AMD slide into a hotel suite nearby for the week to tell their tale to the assembled media.
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Doctors may be failing to spot tell-tale signs in children who are underweight, a study suggests.
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Political instability, on display yesterday when the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, survived a challenge to her leadership, which turned out to not be a challenge at all, is just one tell-tale blowing in the negative winds sweeping across Australia.
Decision time is now for Justin Bieber: He can be a Timberlake or a cautionary tale that parents tell their kids who want to go into show business.
Few survive to tell the tale of the German battleship, Schleswig-Holstein, unleashing a barrage of 280mm and 170mm shells at a Polish fort and shattering the dawn breaking over the Westerplatte peninsula in the free city of Danzig on 1 September 1939.
He searches for the origins of the domestic apple in Kazakhstan to tell an evolutionary tale which explains how every eating apple in the world is a direct descendent of apples in the Tien Shan forest (the bitter taste of apple pips is cyanide, their shape adapted to slip through the guts of a marauding bear unharmed).
The next year she received a romantic mainstay, jewelry, and they remain together today to happily tell the tale of their first gifting mix-up.
But wait at the coffee shops after dark to talk to some of Muscat's bloggers and tweeters and a different picture emerges, of tell-tale clicks on the line during phone conversations, of unusual activity on Facebook pages.
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Eventually, enough brain cells die for the tell-tale gaps to appear in the tissues, although the only way of definitively confirming a CJD case in humans is following death during post mortem.
Over a light reggae sound, we get a self-pitying tale about not fitting in: of not being about to "tell foe or friend".
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It was designed to attack and remove what some researchers believe is a root cause of Alzheimer's, the tell-tale amyloid plaques that build up in patients' brains.
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