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I really liked this book. I kept thinking of Haruki Murakami throughout the book, so that is probably why I liked it. This is the first David Mitchell novel that I have read, and I can say that I will be reading more. It is basically six different stories that have slight connection until the last two stories. The stories run in chronological order, from 1984 into our future.
A lot has already been written about The Bone Clocks. All of the good things people have been saying about it are right on the mark; so are all the bad things people have been saying about it.
Put me down in the camp that loved the first 3/4 of the book so, so much. It’s vintage Mitchell on display here; he’s created characters whose lives reel you in and don’t let you go. The fantastical mystery slow burning in the background is enough to keep you intrigued. But when the mystery of this alterna ...more
Put me down in the camp that loved the first 3/4 of the book so, so much. It’s vintage Mitchell on display here; he’s created characters whose lives reel you in and don’t let you go. The fantastical mystery slow burning in the background is enough to keep you intrigued. But when the mystery of this alterna ...more
Hard to rate this book. Each time I really started to get into a character and enjoy the plot then the character and story would completely change. Sometimes I found myself not enjoying the current character or story at all, yet as the story progressed this book started to reveal itself. The long read was worth it. A quote from a reviewer at the end of the book called it 'perhaps the most ambitious book ever written' and I would have laughed at that even most of the way through this. Now it's de
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I loved this. The meaning of the title becomes clear only late in the book. Again from this author is an interwoven tale, told from six viewpoints all of which have a connection to one extraordinary person. It is strange enough to grab myinterest and hold it, complicated enough to have to think about the recurring personalities and when they were last encountered, memorable enough to return to my thoughts for days, and long enough to come to an end that actually fits. There may have been some wr
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