On Some Faraway Beach

The Life and Times of Brian Eno

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David Sheppard: On Some Faraway Beach (2009, Chicago Review Press, Incorporated)

English language

Published Jan. 14, 2009 by Chicago Review Press, Incorporated.

ISBN:
978-1-55652-116-4
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Interesting Subject Written About in Ultraviolet Prose

  1. Eno is clearly an interesting guy with a wide range of intriguing interests and projects.
  2. Behavior is described in this book with a wink and an elbow to the ribs and a "what an insouciant cut-up" that seems to be verging dangerously close to sex pest territory.
  3. David Sheppard knows a lot of big words and he wants you to know that. This lends his prose an obdurate opacity that renders the celerity of rendering cogition of his auctorial prowess a glacial mien. Now imagine 500 pages of that.

It was worth reading for the interesting subject matter. The prose style made me put it down for months at a time more than once. The first 20%, everything prior to meeting Bryan Ferry, bored me shitless.