Timothy Mangan, the classical critic for the Orange County Register, has done the world the service of reducing the 600+ pages of Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise to a mere 122 words, and (bonus!) they rhyme! His poem "The 50s, in verse," is over on the OC Arts Blog. Move over, Edward Lear. If Mangan would do the same for Richard Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music, we'll just drop everything right now and canonize him on the spot.