number9dream
UK first impression paperback original. Good overall with some light wear and some spine creasing. Sceptre 2001.
UK first impression paperback original. Good overall with some light wear and some spine creasing. Sceptre 2001.
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ISBN:
9780340739761 (0340739762)
Edition language: English
DNF @ 20%. Give me Blade Runner, give me The Matrix, ... even give me Vanilla Sky, ... but not hundreds of pages of pretentious writing and a plot that I cannot muster any enthusiasm for. Post-rain sweat and grime regunge Tokyo. The puddles are steaming dry in the magnified heat. A busker sings ...
This is the only David Mitchell book I've actively disliked. In "Ghostwritten," his trademark successes become flaws: fantasy blurs with reality, but the lines are utterly indistinguishable; long descriptive passages are showy instead of mood-setting; a unique method of storytelling detracts from th...
I recently implied that David Mitchell could do no wrong. Without a doubt, he is a tremendously talented author. Then I began reading number9dream and was immediately worried I'd have to eat my words. number9dream starts unlike any other Mitchell book; sure Mitchell has an eclectic style, but there'...
You'll love it, or hate it. It's that kind of book. I loved it.
David Michell's (b. 1969) sophomore slump, written 2001 while he was still in his eight-year stint teaching English to technical students in Hiroshima, a step down from the 1999 debut 'Ghostwritten' and definitely weaker than the charmed 'Cloud Atlas,' number9dream sounds better in concept than in r...
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