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This was my first David Mitchell and I think I can say that I'm a fan and will certainly pick up his other work (at least Cloud Atlas which I've had on my nightstand for years!) However, I'm not completely sure what I thought about The Bone Clocks. Parts of it were wonderful but there were almost as many parts that were very slow and that never tied themselves to the main story enough to justify their presence in the book. I would love to read more about the individual horologists and their lives. I really enjoyed the parts about Marinus as a young serf and his initial meetings with Xi Lo and Holokai and would like to know more about their metalives. I also want to know what happened to Hugo Lamb after he got into the car in Switzerland. There's so much that I'd rather have seen than all the time spent with Crispin Hershey. Overall, a mixed thumbs-up. Outside the last two chapters, I loved this book. Mitchell's writing is incredible. His main characters are flawlessly written. The final chapter was good, except for the lengthy and overly wrought disaster movie lecture on climate change, which droned on for far too long and added little to the overall story.
Mitchell's plotting is as intricate as ever, and he indulges in many familiar tricks. Themes, characters and images recur in different configurations, as in a complex musical work; characters from earlier Mitchell books make guest appearances; there are sly references to Mitchell's literary reputation, as well as to the works of other writers.... Mitchell is a writer who will always do his own thing, and the question to ask about his work isn't how profound it is, or what category it belongs to, but how much fun it is to read. And on that measure, The Bone Clocks scores highly. In fact, Holly’s emergence from “The Bone Clocks” as the most memorable and affecting character Mr. Mitchell has yet created is a testament to his skills as an old-fashioned realist, which lurk beneath the razzle-dazzle postmodern surface of his fiction, and which, in this case, manage to transcend the supernatural nonsense in this arresting but bloated novel. Another exacting, challenging and deeply rewarding novel from logophile and time-travel master Mitchell Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
Il viaggio di Holly Sykes comincia a Gravesend nel 1984, in pieno thatcherismo, quando lei ha quindici anni, strane visioni notturne, una madre insopportabile e un ragazzo che pochissimi definirebbero bravo. E finisce, più o meno, sessant'anni dopo, quando Holly si trova sulla costa atlantica dell'Irlanda, insieme alla nipotina, sull'orlo della catastrofe climatica, ancora una volta messa di fronte a un decisione epocale contro forze ultraterrene. Nel frattempo, la vita di Holly si dipana tra i luoghi più diversi e i personaggi più inaspettati, attraversando un conflitto invisibile nel quale potrebbe essere l'arma decisiva. Nell'arco di sei decenni e fino all'ultimo respiro Holly dovrà trovare la forza di sopravvivere e salvare chi ama, muovendosi sempre in quel precario, misterioso, fuggevole e struggente equilibrio tra volontà e caos, tra devozione e disperazione, tra amore e distruzione, che è la vita umana. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The writing was just ok - I really enjoy interesting writers and this one just did not shine through. The story line was very good. I was not happy with the way it ended, but since I did not write it, I don't get to decide. ( )