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David Sheppard: On some faraway beach (2009, Chicago Review Press)

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.

replied to Dave Slusher - Books's status

@geniodiabolico@bookrastinating.com Recently I read the 33 1/3 book about Television's **Marquee Moon** album. I sort of forgot that Eno made an appearance in there as the producer of the first demo session. Those were abandoned for being "too sterile" which coming from Television is a statement.