Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
In the 1990s, when “alternative” was suddenly mainstream, bands like Pearl Jam and Pavement, Nirvana and R.E.M.—bands that a year before would have been too weird for MTV- were MTV. It was the decade of Kurt Cobain and Shania Twain and Taylor Dayne, a time that ended all too soon. The boundaries of American culture were exploding, and music was leading the way.
It was also when a shy music geek named Rob Sheffield met a hell-raising Appalachian punk-rock girl named Ren?e, who was way too cool for him but fell in love with him anyway. He was tall. She was short. He was shy. She was a social butterfly. She was the only one who laughed at his jokes when they were so bad, and they were always bad. They had nothing in common except that they both loved music. Music brought them together and kept them together. And it was music that would help Rob through a sudden, unfathomable loss.
In Love Is a Mix Tape, Rob, now a writer for Rolling Stone, uses the songs on fifteen mix tapes to tell the story of his brief time with Ren?e. From Elvis to Missy Elliott, the Rolling Stones to Yo La Tengo, the songs on these tapes make up the soundtrack to their lives.
Rob Sheffield isn’t a musician, he’s a writer, and Love Is a Mix Tape isn’t a love song- but it might as well be. This is Rob’s tribute to music, to the decade that shaped him, but most of all to one unforgettable woman.
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52 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 14, 2008 Type: User Review |
Love Is A Mixtape
This book is truly unique. Heartwarming and heartbreaking, Sheffield connects to readers by invoking reminiscent images conjured from mixtapes. By using such an intimate medium, Sheffield reaches readers through the method used for decades to...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 05, 2008 Type: User Review |
Hipster Grief Memoir Never Transcends the Genre
I don't generally care for memoirs, but several things drew me to this one and convinced me to try it out. I'm almost the same age as the author, and like him I grew up with indie music, made a gazillion mix tapes, and even lived in...
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 2.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 02, 2008 Type: User Review |
Music and Memories
It's a fact that people often associate certain music with events in their lives, and sometimes the most soothing music can be that which we associate with a pleasant memory or a time that we don't want to forget. For Rob Sheffield, the glorious...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 07, 2007 Type: User Review |
Unbelievable
An unbelievably good, funny, heartbreaking read. I loved every moment of it. I ache for the author's pain, and it made me appreciate my bride and my child so much more at the end of it. Terrific. If you love music, have ever made a mix tape, and...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 22, 2007 Type: User Review |
Beautifully crafted, heart-wrenching story of love and life
You would have to be inhuman to not be touched by this book.
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 09, 2007 Type: User Review |
I'm going there
I will admit that I was skeptical when I picked up the book; Amazon told me I'd like it because I like Chuck Klosterman. I was only hoping that this book was not going to be a cheezy Klosterman wanna-be. Although it is a bit Klosterman-esque...
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 30, 2007 Type: User Review |
Nice idea, cute story, just not a great book.
The story is of the power of music and one tragic loss. The author lost his wife unexpectedly and pieced together a book about their relationship in its before, during and after stages. Each chapter is headed by the tracklisting of a mixtape -- a...
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3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 09, 2007 Type: User Review |
Mix it up!
I generally don't stray outside the realm of strict fiction, but being a music lover (and a lover of mix tapes (or CDs these days)), I was intrigued by the notion of indexing one's relationship in terms of mix tapes.
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 03, 2007 Type: User Review |
Tended to Ramble
I enjoyed the premise of the book which was a tribute to Rob Sheffields dead wife, but unfortunately many of the chapters seemed to be the authors stream of consciousness. My book club read this book as one of the members went to Hollins College...
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3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 11, 2007 Type: User Review |
It's Not Just About the Music
Rob Sheffield's Love is a Mix Tape is a heart-breaking, uplifting, funny, sad and entirely human memoir about love and loss unified by Sheffield's love of music and his life-long penchant for crafting the mix tape. Music fans born in the 60's...
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5.00/5 |
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