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Number9Dream
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bookshelves: miscellaneous-fiction, china-japan-asia, mitchell-uber-book
May 30, 2008
bookshelves: miscellaneous-fiction, china-japan-asia, mitchell-uber-book
Set in Japan in the present or perhaps the near future, with several versions of early bits of the plot. Is it real or is it a computer game - certainly he plays computer games?
Some wonderful metaphors and some ludicrously contrived and awkward ones. Too much organised crime and mindless violence for my taste, with little of the beauty of his other books to provide balance or contrast. (Number 9 Dream is a Beatles song that plays at a disco in Black Swan Green, which I reviewed HERE.)
See also Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, which I reviewed HERE. Mitchell acknowledges Murakami as an inspiration in general, and there are some similarities between this and one of the two threads in Hard-Boiled Wonderland.
Some wonderful metaphors and some ludicrously contrived and awkward ones. Too much organised crime and mindless violence for my taste, with little of the beauty of his other books to provide balance or contrast. (Number 9 Dream is a Beatles song that plays at a disco in Black Swan Green, which I reviewed HERE.)
See also Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, which I reviewed HERE. Mitchell acknowledges Murakami as an inspiration in general, and there are some similarities between this and one of the two threads in Hard-Boiled Wonderland.
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Started Reading
May 1, 2008
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Finished Reading
May 30, 2008
– Shelved
June 9, 2008
– Shelved as:
miscellaneous-fiction
June 15, 2015
– Shelved as:
china-japan-asia
October 31, 2015
– Shelved as:
mitchell-uber-book
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Aug 03, 2021 09:38AM
So how much of the story do you think is 鈥渞eal鈥�? Are you suggesting that maybe none of it is?
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Petergiaquinta wrote: "So how much of the story do you think is 鈥渞eal鈥�? Are you suggesting that maybe none of it is?"I haven't reread this one, so I don't know!
