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Title: What are people reading here?
Review: This book is terrible. It is a poorly written plotless vanity project only held together by the very obvious device of incorporating the historical information about the Piano. The characters are all caricatures, two dimensional stereotypes. Jos the drunk but well meaning loser, Luc the reserved understated sage. Nothing more to them. What was Jos' back story? Luc's? The narrators wife and children are ghosts, mere placeholders. The author talks about discovery but presents none. The character does not grow or experience anything beyond perhaps improving his playing. Even here we get no sense of what that experience must have been like. We are told, but we do not feel. I wasted my time with this do not waste yours. There are more entertaining books about the piano and its history without the nonsense of a plotless and pointless narrative
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