But for those with even a passing interest in its subject, it is, in Guitar Player magazine's phrase, "the Luthier's Louvre".
First, it is practical in its subject matter, insofar as it is concerned with action.
The book soon gets rolling, however, and the madcap delight it takes in its subject becomes infectious.
It's not because his more recent work is less ambitious – in a way, it's more far-reaching in its subject matter and what it's trying to do musically, but the risks are greater, too.
"Body of Lies" is as nostalgic in its moral ambiguity as it is immediate in its subject matter.
Bennett writes 'This work contributed in an important way to the growth of the concept of the gene-complex' but it is, of course, essentially post-Darwin in its subject matter.
This makes her book rather hard going for the nonspecialist, and those with only an amateur interest in its subject matter may find the reading of it an unrewarding experience.
It is a tome as sprawling and excitable in its subject matter as one of the mixes that launched his career as a DJ 15 years ago.
If so, it is an uncommonly complex sketch that finds in its subject -- whether seen at night and from a distance or up close and in the stark light of day -- a harsh, yet indelible beauty.
It is a work of astonishing originality, both in its subject matter (childhood and the growth of the mind, described with a pre-Freudian insight unprecedented in literature) and in its form.
It is an apparently humdrum thriller based on the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008, though controversial enough in its subject matter to earn a ban in Pakistan before it was even released.
