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Full Review: DOWNBEAT MAG on a performance at LPR, New York ABOUT KRAKAUER & TAGG At the peak of their conversation, Krakauer sailed through virtuosic passages before taking off on a passionate, soul-stirring improvisation…Throughout their compelling duo set, Tagg joined prepared piano to electronics in increasingly brilliant applications." I hope that Krakauer's next book goes back to his tradition of finding extremely unusual people/situations and delving deep into them."…Krakauer joined with the adventurous South African pianist Kathleen Tagg in an exciting new duo project known as Breath & Hammer. That's why "Missoula" isn't as engrossing as Krakauer's other books, which all deserve 4-5 stars. They would lack a clear protagonist and an extraordinary event to cover.
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Such books would be informative (as Krakauer always is), but they would lack that laser-focus that Krakauer excels out. Where Men Win the Glory had been about the many soldiers who tragically die in Iraq due to friendly fire. Into the Wild had been about many random people who try to live off the land - and some succeed and some don't. Into Thin Air had been about tales of hikers who die in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Here are some analogies to help explain why this book departs from his other books imagine if: Instead, they are pretty straightforward rape cases, with all the headaches, trama, and nuances that such cases have.īesides the graphic detail (which is useful), there's a lot of he-said-she-said, which would have been fine if he had focused on one extraordinary/famous case, but when you're covering lots of rape cases, it gets a bit repetitive. As horrific as they all are, it's sad to say that none of them count as truly extraordinary (like the two rape cases I mention above). Instead of doing what he normally does (laser-focus on person/event/group), he takes the shotgun-blast approach: he covers MANY rape cases in Missoula. Moreover, he could have used that case as a springboard to talk about the general problem of rape in America. Now that's a Krakauer-like story to sink his teeth into. Of the six people convicted, five were sentenced to death.
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For example, he could have focused on the 1993 rape and murder of 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena and 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman in Houston, Texas. If he preferred something in the USA, he could have found a high-profile rape case to focus on. It's a HUGE case that would have been perfect for Krakauer to explore. She was allegedly raped by 37 of the 42 accused persons, over a period of 40 days. Therefore, if he wanted to write about rape, then he should have written about an extraordinary case of rape and dug deep on that.Įxample: the Suryanelli rape case in India, where a girl was allegedly lured with the promise of marriage and kidnapped. You get the pattern: these are pretty unusual people. Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman: covers a superstar athlete who dies in Afganistan Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith: covers polygamy in an American small town Into the Wild: follows an unusual hermit who fails to live off the land in Alaska Into Thin Air: covers the most deadly Mt. Krakauer has a writing formula: deeply investigate something extraordinary.