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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
hopeful
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
A really quietly beautiful and gentle book about a piano tuner, and how he view his work and the world around him. I would recommend.
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inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
emotional
hopeful
reflective
This story can only really be recommended for those with some interest in pianos and music. Some nice, atmospheric writing, but the main character's obsession with his vocation as a piano tuner overwhelms everything else; his background and relationships are only sketchily hinted at, and the actual process of tuning remains rather vague and mystical.
I never imagined that a tuner could alter the sound of a piano so extremely, and by the end I started to be skeptical about these claims. They seemed exaggerated.
I never imagined that a tuner could alter the sound of a piano so extremely, and by the end I started to be skeptical about these claims. They seemed exaggerated.
I like the Japanese style simple but poetic and with a lot of love for the small things in live ....but in this case they seemed to be a bit too small. Maybe I underestimate the job of a piano tuner but the protagonist annoyed me with his anxiousness, he seemed to make a very very very big deal out of it, how would he have coped if he became a neurosurgeon?
(And I am an anxious person myself).
None of the characters were interesting or had any depth.
Also sometimes the dialogues didn't make sense to me but that might be due to culture or translation.
(And I am an anxious person myself).
None of the characters were interesting or had any depth.
Also sometimes the dialogues didn't make sense to me but that might be due to culture or translation.
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
“Music is there to help us enjoy life, not as a means to outdo everyone else. Even if you do compete and a winner is picked – the person who enjoys himself the most is always the real winner.”
In this short book centered on the story of a boy who wants to become a piano tuner, the characters around him somehow-as well as the keys of a piano-contribute to create a choral story in which everyone is more important than their singularity, starting with the main character. The title then also made me discover that the piano hammers are covered in wool.
In questo breve libro centrato sulla storia di un ragazzo che vuole diventare accordatore di pianoforte, i personaggi che lo circondano in qualche modo - cosí come i tasti di un pianoforte - contribuiscono a creare una storia corale nella quale tutti sono piú importanti della loro singolaritá, a cominciare dal personaggio principale. Il titolo poi mi ha fatto anche scoprire che i martelletti del pianoforte sono ricoperti di lana.
In questo breve libro centrato sulla storia di un ragazzo che vuole diventare accordatore di pianoforte, i personaggi che lo circondano in qualche modo - cosí come i tasti di un pianoforte - contribuiscono a creare una storia corale nella quale tutti sono piú importanti della loro singolaritá, a cominciare dal personaggio principale. Il titolo poi mi ha fatto anche scoprire che i martelletti del pianoforte sono ricoperti di lana.
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No