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Title: A misrepresentation
Review: As an amateur cello player, who picked up an instrument for the first time 3 years ago, I looked to this book for inspiration and enlightenment. It is represented as an amateur exploration of music, the discovery of real music later in life. Fact in point, the author is an amateur only in the sense that he does not tour or get paid to play his instrument. However we quickly learn that this author has been playing one instrument or another since childhood, and could at one point almost have made it as a clarinetist. This book quickly turns into a "dig me" diatribe which left me in disagreement with the author: despite his best efforts, I was not ultimately convinced that he was a "cool guy" -- which is really all he's trying to communicate. For my purposes, this book was unmitigated tripe.
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