projekt-elektronik wrote:After having finished the book, all I can ask is: Who is Edgar Froese?
This very important question has been left unanswered in an autobiography -- there is a bunch of TD-related anecdotes but hardly anything about his personal background. Which leaves the family album snapshots a bit out-of-context...
I was also surprised to read very little about Jerome and Monica, other than what you would expect to read about people who accompanied him along the way for a while. What I read about Jerome in one of the final chapters goes to support my thoughts about the relationship within the group and the feelings after Edgar's passing.
I am glad the book is finally there but OTOH it doesn't exactly help to shed some light on the mystery.
I am only 51 pages in (and feel like I have read a whole book already; the pages are so packed with information), and just finished the chapter that covers the first tour of England in 1974. Everything about this book is great, so far. But I can also feel your concern about who is actually Edgar Froese. But maybe it was not the story about himself he wanted to tell us (he don't even have a name on his gravestone, as far as I have heard; maybe because there is no death...?). It definitely is a book about TD and not about EF. And maybe EF The Man could deserve another biography?
I cannot make myself to sneak peek on pages in a book untill I actually have read up untill that part, but I was told that the book cover the last 15-20 years of TD's career in a superficial way, and if so it disappoints me no ends, because those years means so much to me. But who knows, maybe Thorsten will write the next chapter of the TD story sometime?
The format of the book is a bit overwhelming, so hopefully there will also be a paperback at some point. And as a last note I will say that it is a bit confusing when dialog comes back to back instead of separated by line shifts. At the end of chapters througout the book there is some free space, so the reason should not be to save page count. Some more space and air in the text would be welcomed.
Otherwise a fantastic book and a wonderful product. I still have many weeks or months untill I have finished it all.