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(5 stars) - CD is great, book part is so-so
I bought the CD basically because I think I have everything else by the Carpenters. It does have some different things on the CD which makes it well worth the purchase. Being a fan from way back, I love anything different by the Carpenters. Karen's voice, well, it's the best.

I did give the CD a five star. The book part, written by Jeffrey Tobin I believe, was less than I would have hoped for. I found it to be wordy, he gives the writers, producers etc of every song on the CD in such a way that a reader loses the whole thread of the "review". I'm surprised no one edited it, or if they did, they didn't cut a lot.

As I was reading the book, I got the impression that he didn't much care for the Carpenters, that if someone read that before purchasing the CD, they probably wouldn't purchase it. In fact, what I got from the book , is that he only likes about five Carpenters songs.

Why anyone would attach that to a CD is beyond me. I'm all for unbiased opinions, I don't think his "book" is that.

Of course, Karen and Richard could have done "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and I would have bought that as well.

He does criticize some of my favorite songs done by the Carpenters over such things as simple little glitches etc. For instance, the Christmas albums. He doesn't say much about them at all. In my opinion, they are some of the best out there. Karen's voice is great with that type of music. He just glosses over them, saying how they didn't achieve the sales or ratings etc etc. I still hear her Christmas music a lot of places and I live in Mexico!

Anyway, buy it for the CD, definitely NOT for the book part.

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