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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
This was a the sleeper hit of the month on my Kindle. Both hilarious and heartbreaking (seriously, I was crying really hard at a couple of points), it made me want to hang out with Rob Sheffield and learn more about music.
If you’re a music lover/audiophile and listen to mainly rock and pop you will like this book. A memoir that tells the story of a music critic’s relationship with music and how it helped him deal with insecurity, love, terrible loss, and more love, and life. If music has been a constant in your life and has helped you relate to others this book is for you.
I liked this, it made me cry at the gym though. Bad book! (Lol). I do think this could, and probably is, a five star book for many people. But for me, I'm just not that music person. I love music, but this author went deep and made me feel kind of unobservant. Lovers of the 80's and the 90's will recognize lots of the music although there is a liberal amount of early stuff through out.
Once you get over that [author: Rob Sheffield] is the snarky guy with the black hair from such VH1 classics as I Love the 80s, I Love the 90s, I Love the 80s 2, and I Love the 90s 2 and that you were, you know, age seven through seventeen in the 90s and so don't know much of the music he talks about, you will love this book. Yes, it helps if you can dig up some Sleater-Kinney and Pavement for reference, but you can still feel it through the Top 40s you already know and all the old REM that falls in.
The book is quite a beautiful tribute with a truly amazing collection of thoughtful insights on love and death. [Author: Sheffield] gives words to a lot of familiar feelings of loss, which really tugged at my heartstrings, but earnestly. I dislike going for the cheap shot (see: my total hatred of Life is Beautiful, my mixed feelings about Claire's infinite miscarriages in [book: The Time Traveler's Wife]), and [Author: Sheffield] avoids it by being very simple and very honest. I value that.
Meanwhile, I read this book between 5:05 PM, when my flight was supposed to take off, all the way through till 7:30, when it did, until I finished it right before we started our descent to New York. So I experienced it as kind of a DUNK into [Author: Sheffield]'s life, rather than a linear story that unfolded. I'll have to revisit it when I get it back (obviously I already loaned the sucker out) and see what it's like when I'm not trapped in a metal tube.
The book is quite a beautiful tribute with a truly amazing collection of thoughtful insights on love and death. [Author: Sheffield] gives words to a lot of familiar feelings of loss, which really tugged at my heartstrings, but earnestly. I dislike going for the cheap shot (see: my total hatred of Life is Beautiful, my mixed feelings about Claire's infinite miscarriages in [book: The Time Traveler's Wife]), and [Author: Sheffield] avoids it by being very simple and very honest. I value that.
Meanwhile, I read this book between 5:05 PM, when my flight was supposed to take off, all the way through till 7:30, when it did, until I finished it right before we started our descent to New York. So I experienced it as kind of a DUNK into [Author: Sheffield]'s life, rather than a linear story that unfolded. I'll have to revisit it when I get it back (obviously I already loaned the sucker out) and see what it's like when I'm not trapped in a metal tube.
A heartbreaking love letter to Sheffield's dead wife. Lovely and moving, even though most of the music references went over my head.
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
This book is not written for everyone. Just folks who have made mix tapes, fallen in love or experienced loss. If you fall into those categories, read this today.
“This is a classic example of a tape that tries to ruin a bunch of songs by reminding you of a time you would rather forget. Sometimes great tunes happens to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.”
If you know, you know.
“This is a classic example of a tape that tries to ruin a bunch of songs by reminding you of a time you would rather forget. Sometimes great tunes happens to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.”
If you know, you know.
I really liked it, but I think I would have liked it more if I were a little older.