cirerita
Founding member
None taken.
As I said a while ago, I'm happy if people perceive my efforts as both "entertaining" and "useful" (dulce et utile Horatio dixit way before our little brains thought to be the smartest ones in the history of mankind).
My book is full of facts, dates, places and names, and it's not critical per se -though it becomes critical when facts try to correct previous mistaken assumptions by, well, you know by whom. That's why Martin suggested my using short intros of a sort to each section talking about B's moods at the time, where he was living, etc. It's a good idea to make the book less fact-oriented and to avoid the impression there's too much data on each page. Problem is, it would become some sort of biography, and as I said a zillion times, that's really not up my alley.
So facts and data it is, however boring it might seem. And, yeah, my opinion is there, but it's kind of subtle, methinks. I'm not assessing the data I've collected, but my take is clear in the way I choose to arrange data or when I try to dispell myths. Actually, my "voice" is only evident in the intro and in the conclusions, but the main chapters are chronologically arranged and you won't notice my presence there that much. I just display the data and then I get the hell out of there.