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Number9dream
by David Mitchell | category Literature & Fiction
Registered by jezarnold of Worcester, Worcestershire United Kingdom on Tuesday, August 16, 2005
2 journalers Average 7 star rating by BookCrossing Members


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Journal Entry 1 by jezarnold from Worcester, Worcestershire United Kingdom on Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Another Warehouse book, this time only $1.97.. because of this it took me a while to get reading it, but when I did I couldn't put it down!! amazing!!

one of the Amazon reviews "In Ghostwritten Mitchell excelled when confronted with the Other; in the superb opening tale of a Japanese subway bombing, or the epic story of a soul's journey through many hosts in its search for its origin. That novel failed when the basic components were familiar, when the plot and characters occupied recognisable spaces, and when Mitchell overreached in terms of the variety of tales he told. In Number9dream the book achieves a degree of unity - it basically follows the story of a young man looking for his father in Tokyo, this plotline interrupted, delayed, sped up and dropped by other voices and stories that want to be heard. Tokyo is described in terms of an opaque, fast, towering underworld, a reference to the subterranean region of the mind accessible through dreams. Therefore, as Eiji experiences a psychological resolution to his quest, by returning to his starting point, can Tokyo's complex, overwhelming landscape be razed to the ground. The novel is verbally lush, some sections extraordinary (the double date, the kaiten pilot's diary), whereas some parts are weaker, owing again to familiarity (movie-ish false start opening chapter) or overreaching in style (the goatwriter sections). However, it is a beautiful book, full of amusing, lovely, believable and complicated characters, and Eiji as protagonist reacts always with a reassuring lack of pretension to the mad, unreal reality that he occupies in the loud, overcrowded city."
 

Journal Entry 2 by jezarnold at Central Business District in Queenstown, Otago New Zealand on Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Released 6 yrs ago (8/17/2005 UTC) at Central Business District in Queenstown, Otago New Zealand

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Actually released 26 August 2005 in Starbucks Coffee shop in Queenstown..
Apparently they want to have a bookshare in there..
 

Journal Entry 3 by wingAnonymousFinderwing on Saturday, May 06, 2006

Yeh i found this at work -Starbucks, Queenstown.No one had picked it up so i gave it a go.Would luv to have a bookshare in the store..! Story is good, a bit long-winded in fact i didnt actually finish it... But back into the wild u go little bookie!



CAUGHT IN QUEENSTOWN SOUTHLAND NEWZEALAND 

Journal Entry 4 by wingAnonymousFinderwing on Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Good Little Read, I Also found this book at Starbucks while i was working and my boss had read it and told me about how it travils it looks like it disapared for awail and ended back at Starbuck i guess it likes Coffee :)

Well its time to be FREE lil book, Hope it makes it out of Queenstown and to the rest of the world!

CAUGHT IN QUEENSTOWN SOUTH ISLAND NEW ZEALAND 

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