Title: Irritating? Pretentious? Dull? All of the above?
Product review: This book offers proof that you can't just throw together your journal jottings and expect to make a readable work. The author may be a good pianist (I've never heard him or heard of him, and I've collected piano recordings for close to half a century now), but he's a lousy composer. Of prose, that is. The short entries are both overly-intellectualized and intellectually unsatisfying. They go too far in their pretentious style and not far enough in content. The writer demands a high degree of concentration, but then doesn't come through with much to say, finally...
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