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The Lorin Solo: A Novel
A fictional love story that develops under the coverlet of the Concord Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps competitive year 1986 and continues to this day in a unique and sentimental way.
- GenresFiction
170 pages, Paperback
First published April 18, 2006
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October 31, 2008
Drum Corps?!?!? Who's heard of Drum Corps?
This was a nostalgia read. While in high school, I was very into marching band, and my sophomore year, I tried out for the Garfield (NJ) Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps. Though a spoiled only child who got almost anything I asked for (I didn't ask for much), my parents put their foot down when I made the corps and told me I would not be making the 12 hour drives or flying to Bergen County during my breaks to rehearse with the corps nor would I be marching with them for the 11 week summer season (to be fair, if I had wanted to march for the Canton Bluecoats, Toledo Glassmen, Marion Cadets or even the Phantom Regiment of Rockford, IL, they might have allowed it, but hey, I was an arrogant teen when it came to my trumpet playing and I wanted to march with the best).
Though the book is a love story, it included enough descriptions of the summer season and what the members go through that it seemed realistic to me. The entire story is from the perspective a new member of the Concord Blue Devils (one of Garfield's main rivals for the championship each year). It talks about the travel, the sleeping on gym floors, the struggle of constantly fundraising for 128 performers and 15 staff members, and the support of the parents and community.
The characters are well developed and the story is very touching, sort of a DCI version of Brian's Song.
This was a nostalgia read. While in high school, I was very into marching band, and my sophomore year, I tried out for the Garfield (NJ) Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps. Though a spoiled only child who got almost anything I asked for (I didn't ask for much), my parents put their foot down when I made the corps and told me I would not be making the 12 hour drives or flying to Bergen County during my breaks to rehearse with the corps nor would I be marching with them for the 11 week summer season (to be fair, if I had wanted to march for the Canton Bluecoats, Toledo Glassmen, Marion Cadets or even the Phantom Regiment of Rockford, IL, they might have allowed it, but hey, I was an arrogant teen when it came to my trumpet playing and I wanted to march with the best).
Though the book is a love story, it included enough descriptions of the summer season and what the members go through that it seemed realistic to me. The entire story is from the perspective a new member of the Concord Blue Devils (one of Garfield's main rivals for the championship each year). It talks about the travel, the sleeping on gym floors, the struggle of constantly fundraising for 128 performers and 15 staff members, and the support of the parents and community.
The characters are well developed and the story is very touching, sort of a DCI version of Brian's Song.
February 8, 2014
If you like this which he called his love story, set in Drum and Bugle Corps backdrop, you'll want to read his other novel. Snow Shadows. This amazing writer went unnoticed for years, working as a ghost writer for television shows I cannot mention. He wanted Hollywood to notice, they were looking elsewhere. It was horrible watching his talent go unnoticed, how it hurt him physically, mentally... he just wanted to tell good stories for all to enjoy.
This took me to a whole new level, the simplicity in which his words flowed taking your emotions from one instant to another in a blink. One paragraph Charlie, I called him. In one paragraph I had all emotions going. Gut to Gut, the emotions flowed as did the tears. Then when the tension builds along with his conversations with his father, who was in Heaven, the character swept me and took me for a ride. I still have his trumpet mouth piece, which I need to return to his daughters, Tara and Tracy.
This took me to a whole new level, the simplicity in which his words flowed taking your emotions from one instant to another in a blink. One paragraph Charlie, I called him. In one paragraph I had all emotions going. Gut to Gut, the emotions flowed as did the tears. Then when the tension builds along with his conversations with his father, who was in Heaven, the character swept me and took me for a ride. I still have his trumpet mouth piece, which I need to return to his daughters, Tara and Tracy.
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