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5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down, Sep 10 2006

By	Holden (Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Rough Music (Hardcover)

I have discovered another author that I need to read. I found rough music on a discount rack at the local Chapters store and picked it up as a summer read. I never like to take the $40 hard covers to the beach, you know how it is. By the time I had read "Rough Music", I realized that I would have gladly paid full price.

Gale seems to be a talented writer, espeically when it comes to character development. I felt like I knew all of these pepole by the end of the novel. His descriptions are vivid. I also found the characters to be quite sympathetic. I cared about these people, with their human failings and all.

If you haven't read this novel, please do, you will be glad that you did and you may just fall for Gale's writing as I have.

Yours
Holden

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5.0 out of 5 stars A very unusual novel and true "page-turner"., Dec 3 2002

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This review is from: Rough Music (Hardcover)

This was my first Patrick Gale experience and will certainly cause me to try another. A most powerfully crafted and original story, filled with sadness and taboo subjects, yet warmly sympathetic to human weaknesses and perceptive that it is so often what people fail to tell their loved ones that represents their strongest feelings. Tragedy unfolds with riveting and tender sensitivity.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Brilliant!, Feb 18 2002

By	AllPaths (Indianola, IA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rough Music (Hardcover)

As an avid reader of fiction, I expected very little from this casual purchase, but not since Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" have I been so captivated by both the story and style of a modern novel.
The reviews below give you all (and unfortunately in once case, too much) of the detail of the story. But Gale dissects the British version of the 'American Beauty' family dysfunction while weaving the emotional turmoil and mystery of the best of Ian McEwan. His 'prison' metaphor is incisive without being blunt, never giving the slightest hint as to how these somewhat damages souls will resolve - or even survive.
And while I'm extolling Mr. Gale's writing, you might want to check out a much earlier work of his - 'Kansas in August': a very different novel, without doubt, but one that is a true charmer - witty and fun, but still skillfully crafted with twists that delight to the final page.
Do yourself a personal favor: read 'Rough Music' - you will never forget it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect symmetry
Reading this book was similar to listening to a beautiful composition by, say, Vaughn Williams. It begins and ends on the same note but the music in between makes the final note... Read more

Published on Feb 13 2002 by Lori Annaheim

5.0 out of 5 stars A Tapestry of Words! Bravo!
I have never read a novel that was put together like this one by Patrick Gale. At first, I was put off by the obviously British staunchness of some of the characters and the back... Read more

Published on Jan 16 2002 by Rogue Elf

4.0 out of 5 stars "Let the Music Play"
This is British writer Patrick Gale�s first novel that is gaining major attention in the States. I can see why, it certainly couldn�t be a more beautifully written,... Read more

Published on Oct 4 2001 by Joseph J. Hanssen

5.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly enjoyable and highly recommended
This is the first book by Patrick Gale that I've read, but it will not be the last. The book defies easy categorization, both in terms of content and style. Read more

Published on May 20 2001 by pm444