Given that this is one of my all-time favorite composers, I was hoping that this book would give some insight into Reich's compositional process, or at least some thrilling technical details on performance process or something. However, this book is really, really padded (it includes liner notes from his ECM "New Series" records as chapters in the book), and the pieces that do make it into the book seem poorly chosen. Hopefully there will someday be a more definitive work on Reich, who is certainly one of the greatest/most influential composers of the last 50 years.