Post by 65if2007 on Apr 30, 2010 2:40:32 GMT -5
Back in 2005, this book was the subject of another thread in a different section of this forum.
I just got through reading it. I agree with the criticisms leveled at it in 2005 -- it's uneven, sloppily written, and historically inaccurate in a number of places.
At the same time, the characters themselves, principally the Beatles and Brian Epstein are more fully realized than in other works of fiction about them that I have seen. He seems to capture the era well also.
And the author does have a passionate interest in PID. This wasn't just an exercise on his part to take an impossible but fun premise and make it into a believable work of fiction.
Schultze is described on the back cover as someone who is in Who's Who and who was a CEO of a public relations firm, who has published articles on other subjects. I can't find very much information on him in Google, though.
One thing that stuck me is that this book delves slightly into the subject of trepanation.
The only other connection between trepanation and PID that I am aware of is in Iamaphoney's RA 76.
This makes me wonder if there is some sort of connection between Ernst Schultze and Iamaphoney -- or -- perhaps more likely -- if Iamaphoney was simply influenced by Schultze.
However, the Satanist/Aleister element of the story is not at all explored in the book.
I just got through reading it. I agree with the criticisms leveled at it in 2005 -- it's uneven, sloppily written, and historically inaccurate in a number of places.
At the same time, the characters themselves, principally the Beatles and Brian Epstein are more fully realized than in other works of fiction about them that I have seen. He seems to capture the era well also.
And the author does have a passionate interest in PID. This wasn't just an exercise on his part to take an impossible but fun premise and make it into a believable work of fiction.
Schultze is described on the back cover as someone who is in Who's Who and who was a CEO of a public relations firm, who has published articles on other subjects. I can't find very much information on him in Google, though.
One thing that stuck me is that this book delves slightly into the subject of trepanation.
The only other connection between trepanation and PID that I am aware of is in Iamaphoney's RA 76.
This makes me wonder if there is some sort of connection between Ernst Schultze and Iamaphoney -- or -- perhaps more likely -- if Iamaphoney was simply influenced by Schultze.
However, the Satanist/Aleister element of the story is not at all explored in the book.