2008-08-16 my life in the book of ghosts

Another reviewer reckons this biog is over-reverential, but i don't get that sense at all. Sheppard is clearly a big Eno fan, but he doesn't shy away from (relatively) objective documentation of his subject's very human foibles.

I hugely enjoyed this book. It's toughtfully measured in the amount of space devoted to Eno's various ventures. After all, who really wants to read 4,000 words about cheque-book productions for U2 and Coldplay? As a devoted follower of Eno's fertile collaborations with Talking Heads and Bowie I discovered plenty of fascinating insight.

Don't dismiss this as another rock journo hack. It's a fascinating, engaging, very well written and frequently funny homage. Read next to (for example) Soft Machine biog 'Out-bloody-rageous' it's streets ahead.

It's no reflection at all on Sheppard, but the unanswered question is, of course, why Eno's latter projects are so tedious when his earlier work is so transcendent.

But when you've got into the pants of as many women as Eno has, maybe you're past caring.