The Soloist
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781409080725 (1409080722)
Publish date: January 26th 2010
Publisher: Transworld Digital
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Book Club,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
Adult,
Health,
Psychology,
Music,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness
The book is far better than the movie. I watched half the movie, then listened to all but the final 15 minutes of the audiobook, then finished the movie, then finished the book. After reading the majority of the book, I found the movie much less tolerable than I had before. If Steve had been as unpl...
Watched the movie on a cruise ship some time ago. Frustrated by Lopez's alternately excessive and pathetic expectations of Nathaniel, and his unwillingness to truly connect with the person, not the front page story.
For some reason, I'm not in love with this book. In many ways, the book is more about Lopez than about Ayers (and Lopez is a good guy), and this is a problem because Ayers stays two-dimensional. I think I would have enjoy the articles, for in some ways this is simply "I discovered what mental illn...
A syndicated columnists writes about a homeless man who is a good musician and former Juilliard student. Suddenly the homeless man is famous, and there are many people who want to help him. There's just one problem. This man has schizophrenia and is suspicious of everyone. But glimmers of musica...
Book Description from amazon.comA moving story of the remarkable bond between a journalist in search of a story and a homeless, classically trained musician—destined to be a major motion picture from DreamWorks, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.When Steve Lopez saw Nathaniel Ayers playing hi...
8 years ago
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