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evanbernstein 's review for:
Number9dream
by David Mitchell
I'm being generous in my star rating of this novel. My thought is to give it 3 stars, but I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt and giving it 4. Joanna and I read this aloud to each other from March through August and this is not a good book to read aloud to each other as you fall asleep at night. It just didn't work despite it being a book about the fuzzy line between dream and reality.
After I was done, I read this review and it made me realize that I had missed a lot of the novel in the way I read it. Now I want to re-read it (but maybe not right away).
If you haven't read any David Mitchell before, I highly recommend "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" as that book is amazing.
One thing that confused us for a long time, is that we couldn't figure out when it was taking place. The first section had a futuristic element to it (which we realized was a dream sequence) but made it seem like the whole world was futuristic. In the end, it seems to be taking place when it was written. Knowing that would make the novel less confusing.
After I was done, I read this review and it made me realize that I had missed a lot of the novel in the way I read it. Now I want to re-read it (but maybe not right away).
If you haven't read any David Mitchell before, I highly recommend "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" as that book is amazing.
One thing that confused us for a long time, is that we couldn't figure out when it was taking place. The first section had a futuristic element to it (which we realized was a dream sequence) but made it seem like the whole world was futuristic. In the end, it seems to be taking place when it was written. Knowing that would make the novel less confusing.