Sometimes prosaic, sometimes misanthropic, but also sometimes inspired: Brown's series of vignettes about the Beatles is at its best when the Fab Four themselves are characters passing through other people's lives, while the writing focuses on what they left in their wake--usually chaos, but sometimes happiness. Fair warning, he absolutely hates Yoko Ono, but his dislike is so cleverly expressed that it's a fun read. He's at his weakest when grousing about the cottage industry that has sprung up around tours of Beatles sites, especially when he insists on transcribing non-English-speaking accents phonetically, always a cheap ploy in my opinion. But there are many witty, fascinating, and sometimes deeply moving bits to this collection of bits and bobs about the Beatles.