Regardless of whether or not you find spectating on his process day by day to be fascinating or not, you can take heart: it’s very difficult not to notice that he probably putters around and may, in fact, waste as much time as you do quite often. This isn’t the diary imagined as reality television – for all intents and purposes, it honestly seems to be the cocktail of epiphany and tedium that we all know - we’re accustomed to the endpoint things available to us: online talks, recordings, installations, and so on (in the case of this book, we’re talking David Bowie’s “ Outside” and the Passengers recording, for example). Some days, very little of interest occurs. One of the overwhelming sense you get from reading the book has to do with some simple and straightforward observations that appear over the course of the days delineated: Eno plays with things, often not finding his initial encounters with a given tool to be either pleasant or straightforward. Reading the actual diary was – for me, anyway – inspiring. In response to my well-controlled response to her question (Well, I thought it was mercifully brief and to the point), she thanked me and asked if there were 'any books out there about this.' In that instant, I had the subject/Forum article: a short review/Brian Eno bookshelf guide!Ī note: This brief list is missing two kinds of books - those that use Eno's work as a point of departure for works of their own (such as the long out-of-print and amazing edition of illustrations of Eno's pop songs More Dark Than Shark ), as well as catalogs of Eno installations and exhibitions (of which Michael Bracewell’s Light Music is the most recent) in the interests of brevity and availability. In case my bookcase or CD cabinet has not warned them off, the multiple copies of every edition known to humankind of the Oblique Strategies must surely suggest that I am a geek and - to the extent to which my budget allows - something of a completist when it comes to Mr.

My close friends have all learned to be very careful about talking to me about Brian Eno and his work, over the years.

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