Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
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Mix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and you’re straight away transported to another time in your life. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous like and unbearable grief. A time that spanned seven years, it ongoing when he met the girl of his dreams, and finished when he watched her die
in his arms. Using the listings of fifteen of his favorite mix tapes, Rob shows that the power of composition to erect a bridge between people is stronger than death. You’ll read these words, perhaps surprisingly, with joy in your heart and a song in your head—the one that comes to mind when you reflect of the like of your life.
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Painfully self-absorbed tripe.
I am shocked by the excellent reviews this book received, because I factually could not wait to place it down and forget it. I don’t mean to be a buzzkill, but I felt like I was being force-fed the diary of every emo twerp I went to grad school with. (Perhaps that’s why people like this book so much… it feels familiar, like reading your own middle-American woe-is-Me thoughts.)
Sheffield and I are the same age, had the same experiences, etc., including some tragic losses. Sure, I saw the Pixes a bunch of times in the early days and moped through my 20s. Yeah, I got my Master’s and thought deep thoughts about the loved ones I buried. I even made a lot of additional privileged white people listen to persons thoughts at open mic nights, because I thought they were vital, new, and deep. But you know what? These things do NOT make me (or anyone else) special. I know that “to rebel in season is not to rebel.” It would be incredibly narcissistic to expect anyone else to care.
So I’ve chose to give this book its first one-star review. Because a name needs to call Sheffield’s hopelessly self-vital bluff.
Get over yourself, man. You are one of millions, and yours is nowhere near the best of our tales.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
It is a fantastic book with the exception of the foul language. I like to read books that have less of the f word.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I did not end reading this book. It was too sad for me. If you’re up for a downer, read it. It is about this guy whose wife dies suddenly and he talks abou ther and their life, but not in the endearing and upbeat way I thought. I thought he would be shiny on their fantastic life and how he misses her, but the whole thing is nearly too tainted with sadness. Some may be able to get past it, but it was too much for me. Very depressing. I hope it was cathartic for the leader, but I don’t see how additional could delight in it.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I really wanted to like this book and Id still say its a fantastic plane or beach book. But call me cynical I just cant get past the dorkiness of the “just say no generation”. They also seem to be the first generation that is a product of a very sheltered style of parenting….what dweeeebs.
I like a lot of the older musical references but find the hero worship of footnote bands like Pavement exhausting.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Sorry to say it is not until his wife dies that the book becomes amusing. It probably gives Rob Sheffield the time and space to see his own life in appealing ways from his point of view unlike when his girlfriend/wife was alive he seemed nearly obsessed/ occupied with hers.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5