5 of 5 stars bookshelves: published-1999, japan, autumn-2010 Read from October 08, 2010 to August 29, 2014 This has sucked me in straight away. I heart David Mitchell and it's not just that I am reading it before sleep that some images (and the toons as well of course) pervade my dreams, it is ...
This is a hard book to rate because, let's be honest, it's David Mitchell: that's an automatic 5-star rating there. But knowing that it's David Mitchell, I find this book a little lacking. It's his first novel; it's not perfect. Despite its imperfections, however, it still destroys most of its compe...
"I wonder what happened to him, I wonder what happened to all of them, this wondering is the nature of matter, each of us a loose particle, an infinity of paths through the park, probable ones, improbable ones, none of them real until observed whatever real means, and for something so solid matter c...
After the general amazingness of Cloud Atlas (the book and the film), I thought I'd give Mitchell's first novel, Ghostwritten, a try. Like Cloud Atlas, it follows the stories of several characters (nine, in this case) whose lives interlock and interact with each other. There are even a couple of old...
Der Debutroman von David Mitchell ist wirklich sehr gelungen. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte von neun Menschen zwischen Okinawa und New York. Die Handlung der ersten Person setzt alles in Bewegung und verändert das Leben der zweiten Person. Das wiederum hat Auswirkungen auf die dritte Person, usw. ...
This predates the more famous “Cloud Atlas” (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23327001) by about four years; it has similarities of theme (connectedness, migrating spirits), structure (linked narratives, in contrasting styles), and even characters, but in a less contrived format. The subtitle is...
This is not a real review, just a few thoughts after finishing the novel. I struggled with the Clear Island chapter but once I just sat down with it to force-read it, I ended up loving that chapter the most. All through the book, the people and entities touching in the bustle of life, their meetings...
Asia-Pacific indie bookstores are flogging David Mitchell pretty hard these days, and rightly so, with the 2012 film-adaptation of [b:Cloud Atlas|49628|Cloud Atlas|David Mitchell|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1344305390s/49628.jpg|1871423] by the Wachowski brothers, Mitchell's career is finally catch...
Four stars, or even four and a half stars cannot adequately define this novel, yet five stars appears overgenerous. Though Ghostwritten is a brilliantly ambitious novel it is also a tangled and convoluted novel. If you as a reader disliked Cloud Atlas it is unlikely that you would find this novel an...
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