![]() Thus the many forms of escapism in the novel: the heroic imaginings, the short stories and the video games. Trying not to spoil anything away, Eiji has experienced something devastating and was trying to deal with his life while also trying to postpone it. This book also deals with the minor theme. I am sorry your experience with number9dreams was not so good. All the importance of saying the right word, and the inability to utter it appropriately, makes Black Swan Green a gem which people rather underrate. Mitchell confesses of making the dictionary his friend to circumvent his speech disorder. The thirteen years old stammerer navigating a family crisis is modeled after the author himself. Here, Mitchell's keen ear for register, vocabulary, and sentence structure creates the illusion of two distinct English languages: that of the Dutch male and that of the Japanese woman.īlack Swan Green holds the secret of Mitchell's mellifluous chameleonic literary acrobats. In Thousand Autumns, a Dutch officer falls in love with a Japanese midwife, undaunted by the law, cultures and language that keep them separate. Interconnectedness is a major theme in Cloud Atlas, however, his other two books, The Thousand Autumns and Black Swan Green, best explore this minor theme. I personally like to call this his minor theme. Another theme that is prevalent in his books is human connection (and as corollary, communication). Predacy (the preying upon of the weaker by the stronger) has been a resonant and dominant theme among his body of works. The structure is reminiscent of Cloud Atlas while the theme in continuance with Slade House. Each chapter of the book focuses on a decade in the main protagonist's (Holly Sykes) life each is seen from different points of view and traces her journey, caught in the middle of a war between atemporals. The Bone Clocks is a good follow up to Cloud Atlas and Slade House. What are your thoughts on any of his works? I'm interested to hear. I'm a little apprehensive, to be fair, obviously quietly hoping that it reads more like Atlas and Slade House, than number9dream. I've had The Bone Clocks sat on my shelf for almost a year now, finding the right time to start it. I feel like he really has a knack for this kind of stuff. And again it's 5(?) individual stories, told at different time periods, based on one central theme. Yet most recently, I gave Slade House a shot, and again absolutely loved it. I found myself often having to skip back through the pages to try and get myself back on track. It felt very disjointed, with surreal real world elements blending with even more surreal dream sequences, yet never really been 100% sure which was which. ![]() However, following Cloud Atlas I gave number9dream a shot, and really couldn't connect to it. Atlas also has, hands down, my favourite ending to a novel I've ever read, and I'm often quite critical of the way that many authors choose to end their stories. I was amazed that he could so deftly weave together 6 stories, yet still make each one feel unique, purposeful and concise. I picked up Cloud Atlas on a whim a couple years ago, and despite a bit of a tough start, found myself thoroughly absorbed into the story. However, I can imagine this style being fairly divisive. His work just flows like poetry sometimes. Personally, I think Mitchell is pretty much in a league of his own when it comes to meaningfully describing actions and settings with as few words as possible. I'm fairly new to the subreddit, yet not to reading in general, so I'm curious as to the general consensus on any of Mitchell's work, and his writing style. ![]()
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