Mitchell hits a home-run again: a clever and meaningful coming-of-age novel told through thirteen months in a thirteen year old boy's life. Each story starts and ends abruptly, leaving you yearning for more, but eventually ties together in a fitting, if bittersweet, finale. Whether or not you've exp...
Unconvincing child narrators are one of my recurring sources of ire in literature. David Mitchell only seemed to be self-consciously channeling Holden Caulfield about half of the time. The other half of the time, his Jason was utterly heartbreaking and convincing. The "Hangman" chapter was one of th...
it was [b:Cloud Atlas|49628|Cloud Atlas|David Mitchell|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1344305390s/49628.jpg|1871423] that brought me to Goodreads. hey, face it, it's 2013 and if you haven't received at least 20 'social invites' to 'the next Facebook,' probably you need to start working t...
From such an architect of a novelist as Mitchell I expected much more.Reading 'Black Swan Green' brought to my mind a mediocre Jonathan Coe (with a better finale).A longer review will follow soon.
David Mitchell must have the aim of writing something differently each time. I've heard that China Miéville's aim is like that too... Either way it's very nice to see an author who tries to write in multiple genres rather than pigeon-holing himself as a fantasy, sci-fi or mystery writer. I must admi...
In the words of Jason Taylor, thirteen year old hero of Black Swan Green, David Mitchell “is ace.” I would go so far as to say he is the most brilliant of all contemporary popular authors. Show me the writer who can write in six very different styles with six unique voices and hold it all together; ...
Rating: 1.5* of five (p66)Strike one: Teenaged protagonist.Strike two, and ball one of strike three: Majgicqk. Or something like it.Strike three: David Mitchell's writing reminds me of all the MFA program writing I've ever read.I thought The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and Cloud Atlas were dis...
A bildungsroman from David Mitchell, well-written though ultimately a little precious and formulaic for me. I enjoyed the narrator's voice, and don't care that it's somewhat precocious. In some ways I wish it had been a novel with a smaller focus--do we really need lessons about racism learned from ...
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