The Music Lovers [Import] [Hardcover]

Jonathan Valin (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Delacorte; First Edition ~1st Printing edition (1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0002324415
• ISBN-13: 978-0002324410
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,817,292 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating story for the classical LPs collector !, February 23, 2010

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Ofer Refaeli (Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Music Lovers: A Harry Stoner Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

An interesting detective book, an excellent reading for the audiophile, a fascinating story for the classical LPs collector !
Highly recommended for anybody who cares for his Mercury, Living Stereo and Decca/London records !!!
Try to look for the 1st pressing book with the lovely Offenbach / Gaite Parisienne / Living Stereo record sleeve on the front cover.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The reviewer below is crazy -- Valin is great!, May 6, 2000

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Brian D. Rubendall (Oakton, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Music Lovers: A Harry Stoner Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

If you love detective fiction and can find any of Valin's Harry Stoner novels, buy them. I own them all and love every one of them. Stoner is one of the most authentic P.I.'s out there, in the mold of the great Travis McGee. Valin makes good use of his Cincinnati locations. Overall, one of the better writers in a genre that recently has produced way too many bad ones.

4 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolultly Horrid, March 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Music Lovers: A Harry Stoner Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

If you have a life , heck even if you don't have a life and you live to be bored to death by a book written by a very strange man , do yourself a favor and stay away from "The Music Lovers". Horrible and insulting to the intelligent it reads like something put together by a 10th grade advanced special education student (if such a person exists). The book is filled with a cast cheesy non-palpable characters that nearly aggravate. I absolutly amazed that this man who now is the editor for a very good high end audio and video magazine actually got this fodder published. If would ask you to do anything whatsoever throughout your life is buy this book, then use it a scooper for your dog. The story goes like this this down on his luck P.I. gets a case from a guy that really isn't put together correctly. More characters than the Bible and not one of them is worth turning the page to see next. All the cast members here are what we on the sane side of the window call "Audiophiles" these are people who have a affliction for good music and great (normally very expensive) components to play thier music on ( I myself happen to be one ) but you now what Valin makes someone who doesn't even listen to music hate us. Eberts' all the way for Jon Valin and a horrible book.