1888 / Audiobook / 150 pages / Germany
**
I was swept away by the stormy, spooky opening that resurges in full force at the end. It's just a shame about nearly all of it.
1986 / Ecomic / 48 pages / Germany
*
This seemed to be nominated as the classic German graphic novel series. I guess they've been too preoccupied with electronic music and board games to bother developing that particular art form. A load of edgy shit.
1998 / Ebook / 140 pages / UK
**
One day, a Beethoven scholar's going to chill out and wax lyrical about what they enjoy in the music, rather than playing detective with sources in the ongoing war of authority. There's probably stuff you can plagiarise for your essays, at least.
2000 / Ebook / 96 pages / Germany
***
A circa 2000 Metropolis website in book form, these brief introductions and literary analyses are only slightly more substantial than something you might get with a deluxe DVD. Most interesting was the comparisons of how reactions to the film changed over time, those observations now 20 years out of date themselves.
2007 / Ebook / 128 pages / USA
*
Or, 'Sunday School, Bloody Sunday School.' A subtitle is our polite warning that normal album commentary will be suspended while someone presents their wacky theory, rant or fiction. This goes with the former, his puritanical Catholic reading of rock lyrics not being any more convincing than the average conspiracy theorist's dot connecting, and less entertaining.
