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A review by iris_ymra
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
5.0
Everyone joins a band in this life.
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Frankie lived his life nine years in Spain with his papa, Baffa Rubio -- learning to play guitar from his teacher El Maestro that didn't just teach him about music, but also life lessons through the perspective of music and musician -- met Aurora, the girl he then will love, the first and always for forever -- and until he had to flee the country for his own safety.
And Frankie's life afterward had been the records of him joining so many 'bands', because one will always do. His life had been a discovery of music, of fame, of people, and of love -- most importantly of who he really was.
His guitar -- with the magic strings -- had been his all time companion on his journey going through every movement in every piece, every note in music sheets and every record played on a phonograph. And with that six magic strings, six lives had been saved, and every time, the string will turn into a blue colour.
Frankie had touched so many souls through his music, to the last movement, until he took a bow. The show was maybe over but, everyone will come home with a lingering touch of music in their soul.
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When I read this book I was sure myself that I had joined this band of Frankie Presto -- or maybe, I had joined an orchestra and Mitch Albom had been its conductor, Frankie Presto's life had been our music sheets that contained a composition of music piece we read and played -- played through our emotions.
This book has been written beautifully alive -- in several narrations of characters -- people who knew Frankie Presto during his live and the narration of music itself. I feel as if this is not a writing of fiction at all. It's as if this is a memoir of a real -- existed -- Frankie Presto. This book is definitely (for me) a great work, a masterpiece.
Having a good cry along my reading is a proof how this book will catch our human emotion, my human emotion. And that's the very thing I try to find in every book I read. That will Let me feel 'alive'.
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Frankie lived his life nine years in Spain with his papa, Baffa Rubio -- learning to play guitar from his teacher El Maestro that didn't just teach him about music, but also life lessons through the perspective of music and musician -- met Aurora, the girl he then will love, the first and always for forever -- and until he had to flee the country for his own safety.
And Frankie's life afterward had been the records of him joining so many 'bands', because one will always do. His life had been a discovery of music, of fame, of people, and of love -- most importantly of who he really was.
His guitar -- with the magic strings -- had been his all time companion on his journey going through every movement in every piece, every note in music sheets and every record played on a phonograph. And with that six magic strings, six lives had been saved, and every time, the string will turn into a blue colour.
Frankie had touched so many souls through his music, to the last movement, until he took a bow. The show was maybe over but, everyone will come home with a lingering touch of music in their soul.
______
When I read this book I was sure myself that I had joined this band of Frankie Presto -- or maybe, I had joined an orchestra and Mitch Albom had been its conductor, Frankie Presto's life had been our music sheets that contained a composition of music piece we read and played -- played through our emotions.
This book has been written beautifully alive -- in several narrations of characters -- people who knew Frankie Presto during his live and the narration of music itself. I feel as if this is not a writing of fiction at all. It's as if this is a memoir of a real -- existed -- Frankie Presto. This book is definitely (for me) a great work, a masterpiece.
Having a good cry along my reading is a proof how this book will catch our human emotion, my human emotion. And that's the very thing I try to find in every book I read. That will Let me feel 'alive'.