A review by tintinintibet
number9dream by David Mitchell

4.0

Somehow I managed to read the "uncorrected bound proof" -- and I grew suspicious at the end since there were about five typos over the last hundred pages. So I compared the closing chapter with the one that is in the library's copy, and definitely the "uncorrected bound proof" got refined for that final version. I'm not sure I liked the revised phrases better though. Mine were less lyrical and more direct. And maybe that's why David Mitchell gets criticized: too overwrought. Too fancy. Too fanciful. Too...much. And maybe that's why I tended not to be irritated by any over-editing. While I shy away from strange magic realism, I got through the alternate realities in this book just fine, without getting exhausted or exasperated trying to figure out what was going on.