1991 / Ebook / 141 pages / USA
****
Strips art down to the barest possible essentials of lines and geometry. The psychoanalysis may be open for debate and culturally specific, but it made a lot of sense.
2006 / Audiobook / 132 pages / USA
*
It's not badly written, and he has a good crack at cataloguing all the theft at the end, but hanging around with these dickheads beforehand wasn't a fulfilling experience. If only I was allowed to skip some of these.
2006 / Ebook / 127 pages / USA
***
Uneventful road trips with the grown-up band members unfold the unsurprising oral history of the alt-rock touchstone. Reads more like an extended advert for their reunion tour until we get to the customary album commentary at the end.
Rhys Hughes, Plutonian Parodies2004-09 (collected 2009) / Ebook / UK
***
Well-observed, deliberating annoying takes on three dead authors, noticeably less reverential than his usual tributes to authors he actually admires. I don't know whether the culinary connections were intended or he was just writing when hungry/thirsty.
Fave: 'Poe Pie'
2012 / Ebook / 304 pages / USA
***
I haven't reached that stage yet (you can't be mad at a baby), but this was a useful preemptive primer for how to manipulate my child into a better-rounded human being than I am, when it wasn't being overly fearmongering in its manipulation of readers.
