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TL;DR: Seiji Ozawa and Haruki Murakami talk about music and writing. A book may be the wrong medium for this. I wish this was a podcast or a series of podcast episodes.  The times when they were talking about rhythm and tones, and the subtle differences in performances;  I feel like those would be better represented in audio. Nevertheless,   It is great to even be able to read the two master's conversations. 

I am angry. Why in the world did this happen. I  thought this was going to be a sad story. And it is but it has made me angry that a person rose to power with the ideals of killing people. I  saw Schindler's List when I was a teen, roughly the same age when Anne wrote the diary. I remember it being a big deal at the time. But I didn't get to have any emotional weight to it. It appeared as something that only grown ups talk about.

I have been resistant to this book after all the talk surrounding it. I like to think the values and beliefs I grew up with ran counter to the extremes of what this book portrays. Because really there's something grimy about the Pickup Culture, even the term spouts out negative connotations.  I am probably the exact age whose target market this book was built for. And with the rise of the information age, it is very easy for word to go around. Neil Strauss' name would get mentioned in blogs and random forums every once in a while. Plus during that period he was promoting his more recent book: "The Truth" through podcasts, I decided to get a copy of "The Game" from a local bookstore. It was an interesting read. The same way one says when you're not quite sure what to say but the polite way is you say "that's interesting". Strauss is a terrific writer. I t is easy to empathize with him in the story.  The frame must have been that we all fe...