I don't know Em, wouldn't surprise me. You're not missing anything by not buying the book, not sure if the albums worth it as I'm not up on classical music.
Think im the only person, or one of 2 anyway who thought this book was tripe, I managed to plough about half way through, then lost will to live and give up. It's utter, utter garbage.
I read a couple of excerpts from it and thought how badly written it was so I didn't bother to buy it. It is only the hype that has sold it. Boo - you are right it is utter tripe. Glad you didn't completely lose the will to live but gave up reading the book first.