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'...
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...
I am finding difficulty in choosing between 3 and 4 stars on number9dream, but I will go with 3 because although there were truly wonderful parts where the language was mind-blowing, the story fell flat. This book is more of a show-off look how fancy I can write and imagine versus let me make a plot...
This is my third David Mitchell novel, and unfortunately it's my least favorite so far. Unlike his other works I've read, this is more conventional in that it's only really told from one point of view (aside from a few letters woven into the text here and there) and has a fairly linear narrative. Wh...
I apologise in advance if this seems more incoherent and rushed than anything I've written previously. I'm just so weirded out by the bizarreness of number9dream that my thoughts are not settled on the book.Okay what I want to know is what David Mitchell was taking when he wrote this... Seriously th...
Thousand Autumns ranks among my favorites, and I loved Ghostwritten, so I'm not sure if it's my state of mind or this particular story or what, but at least for now this book has lost me. I didn't get far enough to feel justified rating it, but for the past fifty pages or so I've had to force myself...
Thousand Autumns ranks among my favorites, and I loved Ghostwritten, so I'm not sure if it's my state of mind or this particular story or what, but at least for now this book has lost me. I didn't get far enough to feel justified rating it, but for the past fifty pages or so I've had to force myself...
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