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There are certain realities that a great prose stylist can almost lift off the page.

It reminds me of reading DFW when he is riffing on Tennis or Pynchon when he is riffing on physics. Vollmann also gets a nod with parts of 'Europe Central'. I'm thinking of William Gass and 'Middle C', Julian Barnes and 'The Noise of Time', Richard Powers and 'Orfeo', William T. There are a few writers I've read recently who do a fantastic job of incorporating classical music into their stories. I found it fascinating at parts and love love love it when Ian McEwan writes fiction about composing or music. But really, those are my only major complaints. Similar to 'The Children Act' in its use of classical music (one of the main characters is a classical composer), it is almost too clean, too moralizing, too easily tied up. Make something, and die." - Ian McEwan, Amsterdam It won the Booker, but wasn't my favorite Ian McEwan.