If there was rating for a reader, I would get 1 star

Wagnerism : Art and Politics in the shadow of Music by Alex Ross

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I only just started this, I gave it to one of my sons for his birthday, but when he said he won't read it till he's finished another book, I kept it for now. I bought it because my son loved "The rest is noise" and because of a review in the Economist .
To start with, I really liked it despite the difficult subject.
But then I failed. Life interfered, and my brain started hurting. I don't know enough about Wagner's music or about various philosophers- Nietsche, Schopenhauer, others, and it started to feel like work.

Maybe I will try again, maybe after lockdown. Right now, with work on my new book and preparation of my old book for launch in September, I just couldn't concentrate on Wagner. It is my failure, not the book's. The book is good, I am just not good enough for the book.
So I will leave the rating, but there should be a rating for me, the reader, Which would be 1 star only.



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