Traveling Music: Playing Back the Soundtrack to My Life and Times
by Neil Peart
Book Summary Information
Author: Neil PeartEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09-01
ISBN: 1550226665
Number of pages: 440
Publisher: Ecw Press
Book Reviews of Traveling Music: Playing Back the Soundtrack to My Life and Times
Book Review: Not just for Rush fans
Summary: 4 Stars
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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