A review by patsmith139
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

3.0

I really enjoyed finding all the little clues that linked the people in the seemingly unrelated stories together. Some of the stories worked better than others and certainly some of the characters were more likeable and the more likeable ones did, generally, end up getting the better of things. There are several themes running through the book; music, how man destroys things and perhaps most importantly how so much of what happens to us, good or bad, is pure chance or serendipity. This a work of great imagination with some great writing and little touches of humour but sometimes, I think, it is a bit too clever and there are many references which will pass the general reader by. For that it looses one star, and it looses another for the weaker stories that were sometimes pedestrian and at others plain baffling.