A review by not_a_violin
Are You Experienced? by Jordan Sonnenblick

4.0

Man, I would love to have a magic guitar that could send me back to Woodstock.

Growing up now, I'm missing a lot of the music I would've liked to see. If I could go back, I would, but I can't. Instead, I have YouTube to look up all the old videos that may or may not have good quality...and books like this one.

Most music books have lots of emotional issues and overall heavy tones. Throughout this one, there was a very heavy tone that made it almost hard to read sometimes. Drama and heavy tones aren't my thing, but it was well done here. You always knew the main character's uncle was going to die eventually, and that was like a cloud hanging over you the entire time. That was just part of the story, though. In fact, that was most of the plot. It was well done and I enjoyed reading it.

What I liked was that it did well to capture what was going on then, and what was going on at Woodstock. It didn't leave out things like the war or the drugs or anything. Everything that was happening at Woodstock - no matter how strange it may have seemed - was there. Out of all the books I've read, this was my favorite that had to do with Woodstock. I'm happy I read it.

One thing I can say is that I wish it was like twenty or thirty pages longer, just so it could be wrapped up a little bit better. I think there could've been more there, and I would've liked to see it. Other than that, I really liked it. I just thought there should've been more, because I had a difficult time putting it down after it was done.