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Oy gevalt.
Look. This book is a passion project. Hearing M.T. Anderson talk about it at ALA during the YALSA Coffee Klatch was amazing; I've never seen someone so excited about their work. It made me beyond excited to read it.
But holy moly is this dense. So dense. It took me more than two months to get through it because it was exhausting. Twenty pages a day was about all I could manage.
I found it less interesting than I thought, but that may be because I got kicked out of world history class the one day of ninth grade that we did the Russian Revolution and thus I am not very knowledgeable about this part of history. And as someone who was a musicology major for a portion of college, I expected to be more into the music history element, and I couldn't access it.
I dunno. This book is for other readers, and it's obviously impeccably researched by someone who makes even the smartest people look unintelligent whenever he presents at conferences, but I never found myself enjoying the ride.
Look. This book is a passion project. Hearing M.T. Anderson talk about it at ALA during the YALSA Coffee Klatch was amazing; I've never seen someone so excited about their work. It made me beyond excited to read it.
But holy moly is this dense. So dense. It took me more than two months to get through it because it was exhausting. Twenty pages a day was about all I could manage.
I found it less interesting than I thought, but that may be because I got kicked out of world history class the one day of ninth grade that we did the Russian Revolution and thus I am not very knowledgeable about this part of history. And as someone who was a musicology major for a portion of college, I expected to be more into the music history element, and I couldn't access it.
I dunno. This book is for other readers, and it's obviously impeccably researched by someone who makes even the smartest people look unintelligent whenever he presents at conferences, but I never found myself enjoying the ride.