Imagine my surprise when I stumbled up this at the bookstore. I was intent on purchasing a biography of Shostakovich. Seeing the LL book was enough make me leave without giving the Shosty book a second thought.
E(pi) = Price(x)(number of x sold) - cost (x)
= $16.50(n, where n = silly lang lang fan boys and n is a large number) - (marginal cost of producing cheap paperback) = $$$$$
it can be a good read. just give him a chance, but i feel da guy is mostly going to talk about his success and pride. u know this kinda thing seriously needs da 2nd volumn.
even if shosty’s your guy, you might want to do some reading up before buying testimony… my understand is that it’s been basically disproven by musicologists as the work of solomon volkov rather than the composer…