The Soloist

As I read The Soloist I feel myself being more and more drawn to the life and story of Nathaniel Ayers. He spent the majority of his life living in the streets with a mental illness and underneath all of that he has a great passion for music and is getting back on track with it. He is very inspirational and he has accomplished so very much. He is also very interesting in that he is very intelligent and talented even though he is living on the streets.
The way Steve Lopez portrays this point in both of their lives is amazing and it kept me hooked. The story of Steve Lopez's experiences and troubles and trials with Nathaniel is so honest and real I could picture everything happening and I could tell that the emotions were real. Lopez didn't write for sympathy and he didn't exaggerate or underrate anything and that's part of what kept me so hooked to this book. Also the way it was written. I have never seen a book written to be a biography within an auto-biography and i think that makes it so unique and makes you want to keep reading to see what happens in both participants lives not just one.