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There is a compelling story here, but it sometimes gets lost among all the layers of this novel, most of which reads like David Mitchell trying very hard to be Haruki Murakami. The novel switches between dreams, fictional short stories, diary entries, and the actual day-to-day travails of Eiji Mikaye over an eight-week period of his life as he moves from rural Japan to Tokyo to try to find the father he has never known.
You can tell that this is an early Mitchell book - a lot of the strengths of ...more
You can tell that this is an early Mitchell book - a lot of the strengths of ...more
This book made me fall in love with David Mitchell all over again. He's so good at marrying a deeply affecting story with the structure and unpredictability of a variety show. There is no other word than mastery. Reviews would back this up if the first 20 pages weren't a little maddening.
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meh. imo, this is far and away a book for boys.
I enjoyed some of the action-movie-like sections, and how it got sort of surreal in parts. but overall i think Mitchell had a higher concept to do w/ #s and coincidence vs. fate, which didn't work for me. maybe i would have had a diff opinion if i finished it, but it was dragging on and i was bored, so i ditched about half way through. i still love david mitchell, tho, and plan to check out his other books. ...more
I enjoyed some of the action-movie-like sections, and how it got sort of surreal in parts. but overall i think Mitchell had a higher concept to do w/ #s and coincidence vs. fate, which didn't work for me. maybe i would have had a diff opinion if i finished it, but it was dragging on and i was bored, so i ditched about half way through. i still love david mitchell, tho, and plan to check out his other books. ...more
Number9Dream is the first of Mitchell's books that I read. The novel immediately pulled me in and kept me engrossed until the very last page. It reminded me a lot of books by one of my favorite authors, Murakami. It had the same surreal and dizzy quality.
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It reminded me a lot of When We Were Orphans by Ishiguro.
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