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Title: This book needs a soundtrack, and luckily you can get one
Review: Someone gave me "Accordion Crimes" for a gift because I play the accordion. After reading the nasty and brutal first chapter I put the book down, but the person who gave it to me asked me how I liked it, so I had to pick it up again. On second reading I reversed my judgement-- It's a wonderful book. The trick is that the people aren't the characters, the accordions are. The flawed and prejudiced human characters are merely vehicles for transmitting accordion music. The people never quite understand the nature of the treasure they are holding (like the thousand dollar bills hidden inside the little green buttonbox), because they let their own prejudices get tangled up in their music even though the music itself transcends human constructed boundaries. "Accordion Crimes" together with the recording "Planet Squeezebox" would make a nice set since it would give the reader a chance to actually hear the amazing music this book is about
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