Title: Disappointing
Product review: THE FALL OF A SPARROW: Am up to page 147, and am greatly disappointed. I should have studied, and retained, all classical literature, I guess. The descriptions of music were so incomplete :"D was a great key. G was too", "Left the low d open like a drone of a bagpipe"...the latter wasn't bad, but "a great key"? Why? Describe it to me so that I can close my eyes and HEAR the music. I won't comment on what bothers me about content, it would take too long. I do object terribly when the editor is sloppy as to let a flagrant error pass: When Woodhouse is talking to the Dean, he says he has voted for "Kennedy, Carter, Mondale and Dukakis". This scene takes place in 1986, right? (I looked back and forth to see if I missed something). And Dukakis ran in 1988. Bad. I enjoyed the authors' first book, not entirely, but there were many interesting new things about books, it was well paced, and it took a nice turn. I expected more out of this one.
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