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I gave up on this....life is too short and other books await.
This was my first David Mitchell and I suspect that I will quickly be moving through his back list. I now completely understand the buzz that I always hear about David Mitchell. I found this entire novel to be fantastic! The writing was beautiful - let's just say that Mitchell can write! The plotting and how he put the story together was amazing. There were times when I had no idea what was happening and yet I couldn't stop reading. That always tells me I'm reading something fantastic. The chara
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A globe-trotting, time-travelling epic, much like "Cloud Atlas," but also completely different.
Each of the six sections concerns one Holly Sykes, first as an 80s runaway (my favorite section), then about 10 years later briefly hooked up with a cad in a ski resort, and in 2004 a somewhat single mother. The fourth section is set in the near future, with the POV of a has-been writer with a famous dad (shades of Martin Amis), who befriends Holly. The fifth section (my least favorite) goes very sci-f ...more
Each of the six sections concerns one Holly Sykes, first as an 80s runaway (my favorite section), then about 10 years later briefly hooked up with a cad in a ski resort, and in 2004 a somewhat single mother. The fourth section is set in the near future, with the POV of a has-been writer with a famous dad (shades of Martin Amis), who befriends Holly. The fifth section (my least favorite) goes very sci-f ...more
Crazy and convoluted, much more so than Cloud Atlas (which is the only other Mitchell I've read).
This is an ARC copy and I've heard that the text of the finished copies differ in a number of ways (especially those characters from other books who make cameos). Maybe I will tackle this one again and see if I can spot the differences.
(ETA: and if anyone cares to know, I put my "I voted" sticker in the front of my ARC since I had the book with me at the polling station) ...more
This is an ARC copy and I've heard that the text of the finished copies differ in a number of ways (especially those characters from other books who make cameos). Maybe I will tackle this one again and see if I can spot the differences.
(ETA: and if anyone cares to know, I put my "I voted" sticker in the front of my ARC since I had the book with me at the polling station) ...more
The first half of the book was engaging and well-written, but as I read further my interest waned. David Mitchell's forays into fantasy and magic in the second half bored me, as did the dystopian final section. (I grow weary of the dystopian trend in modern novels.) Ultimately it was not my cuppa, but if you have a higher tolerance for the mystical and the apocalyptic, you might enjoy it much more than I did.
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