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historysworstmonster's review
5.0
Quick 100 page book that delves deep into what is my personal favorite album.
drew2718's review against another edition
3.0
An enjoyable read—immerses you in the environment that spawned this album. The anecdotes and details help you to appreciate the the album more (after reading the “Oh, Comely” story, it’s no longer my least favorite song on the album).
loujoseph's review against another edition
4.0
not over the top amazing, but interesting and manages to not ruin any of the mystery around the album, while filling in some details.
cdotjdotb's review against another edition
2.0
How you can compare Jeff stepping away from music to Anne Frank dying in a concentration camp is beyond me.
sandmannre's review against another edition
4.0
Good insight into a legendary record, but I wish it went into detail about why I was surrounded by obnoxious people when I saw them last year.
johnmillsxoxo's review against another edition
2.0
More of a 'History of Neutral Milk Hotel' than a book on 'In The Aeroplane Over The Sea', this book provides nothing like an insight into the album and the creative influences on it's recording. Instead it prefers to try and cement it's status as a near mythical piece of work and although the author may prefer it as this, and to an extent I do agree that an album which is so abstract that it can be interpreted in many different ways by many different people needs a degree of mythos, i would have preferred a deeper insight into the band that recorded it's psyche rather than tales of Pizza Hut
gtonsager's review against another edition
3.0
A great book when it comes to documenting the procedural work behind the album and the band itself. I just wish that the reader was treated to a deeper look at the personalities behind the art. I don’t care as much about which houses in which cities the band lived in as I do about who they were as individuals and how people thought of them. In this book we only get a miniature sliver of that.