The slade house book5/10/2023 This was a pastiche of second-rate fantasy fiction that actually read, quite often, like second-rate fantasy fiction. His gifts were put in service of a plot - there were psychic powers, creepy villains, an epic showdown between good and evil - that felt soft and formulaic. His most recent novel, “ The Bone Clocks” (2014), was nearly as ambitious but felt like a misfire. Intellect, feeling, narrative brawn - his kit bag opened and both the Johnstown flood and a rescue skiff poured out. It seemed, in that novel, that there was nothing this writer could not do. Mitchell’s best-known and most ambitious novel is “ Cloud Atlas” (2004), a suite of interfolded novellas that skip purposefully between eras and temperaments. Characters recur from one of his books to the next. David Mitchell’s novels are flecked with meaningful coincidences, to borrow Carl Jung’s description of synchronicity.
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