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    <body><![CDATA[I was surprised by how much i loved this book.  It's blow off your travelling companions and curl up in your youth hostel until you finish it good.  It's finish it and then wish you hadn't so you could read it again for the first time good.  The tension in the love story is addictive.  But what I lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2832716">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The smell of rosin on a bow, the satisfaction of slow scales played with a partner, the sleepy somnolence of working a piece through in your head just before sleep - I miss these things. I forget them too. Viktor Seth lent them back to me this week. <br/><br/>I’ve read <em>An Equal Music</em> before, qui...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20442492">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dive into the heart and mind of a obsessive, melancoly, melodramatic violinist who can't let go of the love of his life, a person who he had ditched out on. But seriously, this is a beautifully written book about love and music and loving music. I am not a professional musician, I played piano when ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40417727">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read almost half of this book yesterday, and was left somewhat perplexed. There was some nice writing about music, but apart from that - <em>nothing</em>. I mean, there was a plot and characters and so on, but so banal! So mundane! Well, ok, so maybe it wasn't completely banal and mundane - love and so on,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78822680">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was disappointed in this book.  I was looking forward to a novel that had lots of musical detail in it, and it definitely succeeded there, and the writing about playing was excellent.  But the prose surrounding the main plot of the novel was extremely self-conscious, overwrought and annoying.  I d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41012531">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In An Equal Music I think Vikram Seth, though he is not one himself,  tries to write intimately about the life of professional musicians.  So the book doesn't ring true for me.  The trite personal bantering and lack of professionalism of the Maggiore musicians during their rehearsals seems unlikely ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47155881">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't decide on two stars or three. We just discussed this at my (live) book group, and there was lots to say. I thought the main character was someone I wanted to smack because he just couldn't be happy and had to destroy happiness around him. He doesn't &quot;mean to,&quot; but the effect is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73760425">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ostensibly, this is a love story between two people who loved and lost and then find each other again years later.  But really it is a love story about music.  The most moving relationship is not between Michael and Julia, but between Michael and his violin.  Reading it made me want to put the book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46660601">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Michael Holme, a talented violinist, lives in London where he plays with the Maggiore quartet.  He is haunted by his love affair in Vienna with pianist Julia McNicholl that ended when Michael left Vienna suddenly after a breakdown.  Now, years later, he is on a bus in London and sees Julia on a pass...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52835055">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music is moving, rich with lovely language and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.<br/><br/>The novel follows a violinist, Michael, who ran away from the love of his life only to regret it ever since.  A chance sighting brings him to her and their love and passion comes alive a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37018887">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I could give this more like a 3.5, but maybe I just wasn't in the right frame of mind to read a book about doomed love. 10 years ago the main character, Michael, walked out on the love of his life, Julia, and has never stopped thinking about her. When they meet by chance again, their connecti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32306066">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished reading this book a few weeks ago and I keep waiting for it to sink in so I can have an ah-ha moment (like after a really good burger or glass of wine).  I don't think the moment is coming.<br/><br/>Overall, the story was interesting and the descriptions of music were like stories of an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31157005">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt like an outsider looking in...to the deep complex world of classical music, the workings of a string quartet, personal and musical, and deafness.  Having said that, I was riveted.  This man writes about music in a way I've never experienced before.  There were times when I wanted to say in a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40876010">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Banyak berlatarkan London kontemporer, buku ini bercerita tentang dinamika grup string quartet bernama The Maggiore. Tokoh utamanya adalah Michael Holme, violis kedua yang mencintai dari seorang pianis konser yang mulai kehilangan pendengarannya.<br/><br/>Banyak yang bilang Michael Holme kurang me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55699656">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Main character Michael Holme is a young virtuoso violinist in a renowned string quartet. Which is at times a quintet, if you want to get technical about the music, as this book does to our  great fascination. This is how a musician thinks about his art. In arduous and painstaking detail.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15732192">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author is a writer of considerable talent whose skill was, I fear, squandered on a rather slight love story. A selfish second violinist in a string quartet renews his love with a (now married) woman he had left earlier. She is a fine concert pianist who is losing her hearing. After renewing thei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67117616">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved An Equal Music! Seth Vikrams' A Suitable Boy was on my TBR list forever, now it's launched straight to the top of the list.<br/><br/>An Equal Music is a combination of two of my favorite things-music and literature. The description of the emotions that music evokes are superb. I was not im...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76207512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a well-written, introspective novel about a musician limping along through life until a chance encounter with his lost love reignites him. <br/><br/>Sadly I cannot appreciate it at the moment because Michael's descent into a pit of despair &amp; anguish over his lost-found-lost love hits too clo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68668984">more...</a>]]></body>
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