Breathlessly obsessive presentation of how incredible David Bowie's each and every hairdo, stage outfit, and recorded conversation is and ever was. I'm a fan of the Thin White Duke's (this book was given to me as a gift) but this was 479 long and tedious pages; from birth in 1947 through to 2010. As the book ends, Bowie is dedicated to raising his daughter with Iman, and author Paul Trynka presumably cries every day there remains no next new David Bowie album.
To be fair, it was interesting to read details surrounding the making of Bowie albums I personally played to death in my youth. But for all the other myriad recordings (the guy was freaking prolific!) it was slow-going. Of course, if you're addicted to all things David Bowie, this book is 5 Stars to you.
I found Trynka a bit over-indulgent with the high praise, he makes it sound as though Bowie knows more than any authoritative expert on subjects ranging from the future, to nazism, to art, etc. But then he goes and substantiates a claim in relation to Bowie's expertise on the internet by describing the hours Bowie spends on sites like eBay! and Google!
To be fair, it was interesting to read details surrounding the making of Bowie albums I personally played to death in my youth. But for all the other myriad recordings (the guy was freaking prolific!) it was slow-going. Of course, if you're addicted to all things David Bowie, this book is 5 Stars to you.
I found Trynka a bit over-indulgent with the high praise, he makes it sound as though Bowie knows more than any authoritative expert on subjects ranging from the future, to nazism, to art, etc. But then he goes and substantiates a claim in relation to Bowie's expertise on the internet by describing the hours Bowie spends on sites like eBay! and Google!
