Coming to this book knowing that it was not a novel I looked at it from a simple point of view. The photos I was ready for, having seen some of the photographer's other work. I wanted to know how DC (sorry to be informal but I haven't got much time) was going to interpret them.He has said before that "Faces are always good when you're thinking up stories, I think" and I wanted to see what he came up with.What is striking about this montage is the revisiting of the theme of a "lost" person (Girlfriend in a coma, Hey Nostradamus, All Families.. etc) and the utter poignancy of the text. You cannot help but wonder what makes this man tick. Whether it is about losing life, beliefs, friends, DC certainly is carrying a heavy burden.The text worked well for me. It was enough to trigger a sense of very painful nostalgia, almost as if time had stood still, and I read the whole thing through without hesitation. I have since read it a few more times and now have lost the book and will be reordering it very soon. I must point out that I am not American and was educated elsewhere but I hope that the above gives you the impression that the content is relevant to everyone (it is).Don't buy this if you want another DC story to add to your collection. Do buy it if you want to be given the pieces of a DC puzzle before the story is written, and you fancy exercising your imagination. You cannot fail to be drawn into this book.Excellent.