Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times |
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Neil Peart
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Pages: 440 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1550226665
Pub: ECW Press,Canada
Pub date: 2004-11-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8974
Reader Reviews:
Neil Peart.........The Author (8/8 people found this helpful)
Art to me is about emotion.
I have read all three of Mr Pearts books to date, they are widely differing in subject matter. But they do have a common thread running through them, that of exposing the true emotions and feelings of a very private man.
With this book I found it to be far lighter than the previous books. I liked the mix of scenery/event discription, remenisences and as a music lover, the opions from a fellow music lover of his tastes. Some of the music he listened to on the journey was pretty obscure,and much not so. This intrigued me, so I bought several of the albums. Some of it I loved some of it I didn't, but it has introduced me to some music that I may never have discovered on my own. I get the feeling that sharing his musical tastes in this way was very much the point he was aiming at with this book, and I think any serious music listener can appreciate that.
Neil Peart's emotions stirred my emmotions, so that means that this book is not just entertainment to me..... it is art!
Not just for Rush fans (25/27 people found this helpful)
Neil Peart's third published book deserves a wider audience than just Rush fans. Part travelogue, part music critique and part biography, Travelling Music is a smooth read (as smooth as the car the author drives)full of interesting perspectives on the music that has been a part of Peart's life and times and reminiscences of his earlier life (particularly his time living in London in the early seventies).
Peart's style is flowing and draws you into his story even through a myriad of scene changes, from travelling through national parks in the present day to the events of thirty years ago and dropping in comments on the music he is listening to and the books he is reading as he goes.
For readers of Peart's earlier works, you'll find this less demanding than the Masked Rider and less harrowing than Ghost Rider, but still with the rich descriptive turn of phrase and enlightening sharing of knowledge that made those books so readable.
My only comment on the downside is that some of the stories did feel a little 'wedged in', a feeling that made sense toward the end of the book when Peart explained the rationale of the structure and it being based on the lyrics at the start of the book. A very interesting and worthwhile idea, yet I can't help feeling it didn't quite come off. Close, but not quite.
I read very little non-fiction so the highest praise I can give to a non-fiction book is this - 'When will your next book be out Mr Peart?'
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Books -> Subjects -> Biography -> Film, Television & Music -> Music -> Rock & Pop