Piece Comment

Review of How To Destroy A Book


This story of a library vandal targeting books perceived to be on gay and lesbian topics and their subsequent transformation into artworks by community members starts out promisingly enough, taking a page from This American Life's style book with interviews backed by music, but after the balance of voice & music star to fall apart, the inconsistent audio quality of the interviewees begins to distance the listener from the material, and the "sountracky" music attempts to lead the listener to a certain emotional conclusion, a job which the voices alone could have done on their own.