1894 / Audiobook / 212 pages / UK
****
Too anthropomorphic to be educational about animal behaviour or historic Indian culture, but still a nice pastiche of fables and folklore that contains enough action to keep kids entertained, as long as they can handle a little death and capital punishment.
1993 / Ebook / 132 pages / USA
**
Tables of formulae illustrated by notation express how the composer captured the essence of the mathematical sublime. It's not one of the more accessible of these books. Much better is the appendix reprinting an enthused antique review, since it actually uses words.
Rhys Hughes, Journeys Beyond Advice
2002 / Ebook / 211 pages / UK****
These longer-winded wanderings through the dark were my first departure from what I imagine are the core Tartarus Press gospels, so the increased length and decreased levity were as disappointing initially as when any favourite band dares to deviate from their template, but there were a couple of classics along the meandering way that made the endeavour worthwhile. We arrived back in familiar territory before the end, though the self-fan tribute was overcompensating a little.
Fave: 'The Singularity Spectres'
1997-98 (collected 2003) / Ecomics / 162 pages / Various
***
The gimmick of doing Law & Order with superheroes is an excuse for more lightly sarcastic false nostalgia from Moore as he populates the non-existent heritage of Image Comics (founded 1992). Supreme did it funnier.
2004 / Ebook / 110 pages / UK
***
Leaving the background reading to Wikipedia, an unabashed fanboy goes all-in on a track-by-track analysis and personal interpretation, and helped me to appreciate an album I hadn't given much time to before. Result.
