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Beethoven (Revised Edition)
by Maynard Solomon

Beethoven (Revised Edition)
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Author: Maynard Solomon
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-09-01
ISBN: 0825672686
Number of pages: 554
Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books

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Book Review: Unreadable and boring
Summary: 1 Stars

I found this book unreadable and extremely boring. It was so dense with meaningless detail that the narrative flow virtually ceased - the endless inclusion of irrelevant detail sucked the life right out of the book for me. After a while I began skimming the pages in an effort to escape the onslaught of useless details. Although this book claimed to be a biography about a life, the writing style itself lacked life. I have read several books by Ron Chernow who also writes biographies and Chernow proves that you can be scholarly without sacrificing readability.

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