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The Voice: A Memoir
by Thomas Quasthoff
from Pantheon

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• A joyful celebration of life
  It's silly of any serious music lover to give this book less than 5 stars. "The Voice" is an exuberant, humorous, joyful celebration of life. It's a triumphant achievement. "Thin"? Ich don't think so. Unless "Portrait of the Artist as Young Man" and "The Tin Drum" are thin, which they aren't. Look for your Schubert interpretation elsewhere. This is the most exciting memoir I've read in the past several years. Bravo!

• A charming book, if a little thin.
  Quasthoff's story is an amazing and inspiring one, and he tells it with humor and charm. This is a quick, light read, and it cleaves pretty closely to the conventional formulae for books of this kind. But conventions don't matter much when the subject himself is so exceptional. You might not learn a great deal about singing or about music from this book, but you get a lot of insight into the personality of this great talent, and the kinds of challenges he has to overcome -- still -- in order to maintain his... more info

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