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Curls wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell

I read this years ago, and if anything enjoyed it even more than I remembered. I love Mitchell's writing when he doesn't get himself too bogged down in fantasy. To be able to write a first novel like this in your 20s is an astonishing feat. You can clearly see the blueprint for Cloud Atlas in it. Brilliant.

I may give this a go next, it sounds good. How many pages is it would you estimate?

Tomous wrote:Had a mindblowing minute or two reading David Mitchell wrote Cloud Atlas before I googled it...

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

Curls wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell

I read this years ago, and if anything enjoyed it even more than I remembered. I love Mitchell's writing when he doesn't get himself too bogged down in fantasy. To be able to write a first novel like this in your 20s is an astonishing feat. You can clearly see the blueprint for Cloud Atlas in it. Brilliant.

I may give this a go next, it sounds good. How many pages is it would you estimate?

I can tell you exactly: 448.

rinks wrote:I’ve only read one of Mitchell’s books (so far) - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. It was excellent, and really transported me to 18th-century Japan. This was fortunate, because I read it while I was in hospital, and in desperate need of something to take my mind off the awful tedium. My praise for the book might be biased by my gratitude.

more heat than light wrote:Finally finished the Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow book that I ordered like nine months ago. Fair to say I didn't really enjoy it, I found the main characters in it utterly unlikeable. Also, it talks about videogames as if the reader has no idea what a videogame is. At one point a character tells someone they're like an NPC, the author then writes a full paragraph as to what an NPC is. Became quite tiring in the end.

I would give it a 4/10.

Curls wrote:Sam is meant to be the one you like and can sympathise with as the misunderstood nerd, but instead you feel like he's quite arrogant and almost a bit of an fedora-wearing misogynist(maybe that's too far).

ITSMILNER wrote:Currently reading Reggie Fils-Amie’s book, quite an interesting read to see where he started and how he wound up at Nintendo. Also good to read some behind the scenes scenarios at Nintendo as they are the not a company you tend to that from a lot.

rinks wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:Currently reading Reggie Fils-Amie’s book, quite an interesting read to see where he started and how he wound up at Nintendo. Also good to read some behind the scenes scenarios at Nintendo as they are the not a company you tend to that from a lot.

I bet when he finished the first draft, he emailed his agent: My body text is ready.

jiggles wrote:I sort of accidentally stumbled into Mistborn having not heard of the series or the author before and on nobody’s recommendation. I’m only two thirds of the way in to the first book but god, it’s really got its hook into me.

I’ve since gone looking at the author’s most recent recommended reading order of his stuff so I’m pretty excited at the prospect of what’s ahead of me, if the plots can stay as fun as this.

rinks wrote:I’ve only read one of Mitchell’s books (so far) - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. It was excellent, and really transported me to 18th-century Japan. This was fortunate, because I read it while I was in hospital, and in desperate need of something to take my mind off the awful tedium. My praise for the book might be biased by my gratitude.