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My Ear at His Heart

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I was really looking forward to this book, as I like Mr. Kureishi's writing style. It started off promising, as an engrossing biography-type read, but ended up sounding like a term paper with the subject being 'How I became a writer'. If I was the professor grading it, I would have it given a B-. Kureishi began by examining his father's past, and then talked some about his father's relatives, and then when he felt that he ran out of that kind of material he talked about himself and his own friends. Not a good idea. I wanted to read more of the elder Kureishi's manuscripts, and learn more about him as a writer, albeit an unpublished one. It seemed like the son was critical of the father as a writer and I didn't like that, even if the son is the better, and more successful, writer. I can imagine that it would be difficult to write a book about one's parents, because all of one's judgments and pre-set opinions are already hard-wired in the brain. But if you've set your mind to do it you might as well do it right. And this book, while it isn't "wrong", didn't really go where I was hoping it would.