number9dream by David Mitchell (2001)
Read: November 2011
Picked up last year at the AUC Tahrir bookfair for a bargain price in their off-sales section. I thought I'd get it as Cloud Atlas was an interesting read. Cloud Atlas was my first go at fiction in a while and it was a nice challenge - not your trashy sort of stuff.
This though was more of a challenge and at times was hard to find where I was in the story. The story was set in Japan and there descriptions of the locations were really nice; the pod, video store and the station. The little bits of dialogue between him and the girl were really sweet and you could feel their awkwardness in establishing a relationship over the phone.
I did find this book difficult to get through and there were times when I struggled to follow what was happening. The story broke into different strands at times and it took me a while after raeding to digest which bits where a dream, which reality and where they fit into the overarching story. Maybe I'm not as cut out for challenging fiction as I like to think!
Read: November 2011
Picked up last year at the AUC Tahrir bookfair for a bargain price in their off-sales section. I thought I'd get it as Cloud Atlas was an interesting read. Cloud Atlas was my first go at fiction in a while and it was a nice challenge - not your trashy sort of stuff.
This though was more of a challenge and at times was hard to find where I was in the story. The story was set in Japan and there descriptions of the locations were really nice; the pod, video store and the station. The little bits of dialogue between him and the girl were really sweet and you could feel their awkwardness in establishing a relationship over the phone.
I did find this book difficult to get through and there were times when I struggled to follow what was happening. The story broke into different strands at times and it took me a while after raeding to digest which bits where a dream, which reality and where they fit into the overarching story. Maybe I'm not as cut out for challenging fiction as I like to think!
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