number9dream is a story about 20-year old Miyake set in modern Tokyo with its coffee shops and pizzerias, its subways, mafia and video parlors. Miyake goes there to find his father, whom he’s never met, and to ease the tight cord that binds him to his twin sister, whose death he feels responsible fo...
As many times as I tried to come back to number9dream, it couldn't hold my attention. It is one of David Mitchell’s earlier books, and reads as such – it moves clunkily between dream like states and real world happenings, in a way that annoyed me rather than swept and kept me in. I can’t get beyond ...
This is a tough book to review. A coming-of-age tale in a foreign land, with strange events and improbable circumstances. I could ride along for most of the adventure, however, I found myself disengaging over the final 50-75 pages, and by the time the abrupt ending came, I was ready to stop reading.
I'm not saying don't read it. Three stars is not a slam in my ranking system. Mitchell gets his bearings and it is worth reading for lots of reasons. If you're interested in Japan, for example, that interest may be your entry point or if you've enjoyed his other novels. I will probably read all of t...
It is a simple matter.This opens with a young lad keeping PanOpticon under surveillance so I have been revisiting Jeremy Bentham's philosophies.from wiki - The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the incarcerated being able to tell whether...
Set in Japan in the present or perhaps the near future, with several versions of early bits of the plot. Is it real or is it a computer game - certainly he plays computer games? Some wonderful metaphors and some ludicrously contrived and awkward ones. Too much organised crime and mindless violence f...
I was really disappointed by this book. It was well-written but it couldn't compare to Cloud Atlas, or even Ghostwritten. David Mitchell is a fantastic writer, but it felt like I was reading Haruki Murakami. If I had wanted to reread Kafka on the Shore or The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, I would have. Th...
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