1983 / Ebook / 184 pages / UK
****
The armchair exhibition couldn't get its hands on the famous ones, but the rest are conveniently organised by location, tracking down specific vantage points 150 years later for inevitably depressing art tours.
Faves: 'Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath' (1825), 'Hadleigh Castle,' 'Helmingham Dell' (1830).
Faves: 'Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath' (1825), 'Hadleigh Castle,' 'Helmingham Dell' (1830).
1995 / Ebook / 120 pages / UK
***
How to play and dance along to Renaissance music that was considered old-fashioned even at the time. It's strange that they feel they have to date these older books in the series, as if regular readers are going to recoil at the extra vintage like a teenager to a black and white film.
2000 / Ebook / 80 pages / UK
***
Run the text through a natural speech program and crank up the speed so it finishes in just under two hours and you've got a near-real-time audio commentary, so you can admire the scenery while learning why the rest of it's apparently any good.
2006 / Ebook / 118 pages / USA
***
A personal interpretation of lyrics and themes that tries not to speculate on what the artist meant, but can't help retrospectively ascribing specific spacetime context that's likely imaginary, like how I imagined this was written by a chick until I just clocked the name.
2011 / Ebook / 224 pages / USA
***
This exegesis of Cash folklore explores the deep meanings of an old man playing cover songs in the corner semi-convincingly. It seems more substantial than most of these books, but that could just be the abundance of chapters leaving a lot of white space.
