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What does /lit/ think of this guy?

>> No.2847952

isn't he making a movie?

>> No.2847951

Why is he being posted so often? Is it because of the Cloud Atlas movie? He's a great author, read him.

>> No.2847962

He's clearly a very gifted writer and has a better sense of character than most.

>> No.2848038

>>2847952
I'm not very happy to hear it.

>> No.2848044

Reading Ghostwritten at the moment and i'm enjoying it.

Will probably pick up Cloud Atlas soon.

>> No.2848056

Book in OP's picture was amazing. Need to get on to reading Cloud Atlas.

>> No.2848076

The Amazon.com blurb for "Jacob de Zoet" says "A magnificent mix of luminous writing, prodigious research, and heedless imagination..." which I would say describes all of his books.

/lit/ needs to drop their DFW and Franzen suburban snoozers and pick up Mitchell's books.

>> No.2848112

David Mitchell's publicist confirmed for browsing /lit/

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>>2848112
Wouldn't be the first time.

>> No.2848127

Cloud Atlas is a fantastic book. Right up there with Blood Meridian and IJ for best Contemporary Novel.

Have not read anything else, though I plan on it.

>> No.2848133

>>2848112

you have quite a high opinion of this goofy board and the six morons you share it with. tao lin is the only writer autistic enough to want any sort of approval here.

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>>2848133
OP is either a shill or wholly autistic. Who else would make their own image for such a shitty thread?

You could say David Mitchell is great, but why would anyone believe you, especially when the responses in this thread are so completely uniform? It reeks of advertising, if not utter lack of taste.

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>>2848155
>>2848155
Literally two seconds in google, you stupid fucking faggot.

>> No.2848167

>>2848155
You're right, because this is an author who definitely needs plugging. He'll be thrilled to see he might gain another reader from this.

>> No.2848170

>>2848133
This.

David Mitchell is a deeply talented and internationally acclaimed author. Neither he nor his publicist need to waste time garnering the 2 new readers out of all the teenaged pinheads who come here.

>> No.2848172

>>2848112
He's a very popular author, you've never browsed through a literary review, apparently.

Anyways, I haven't read this one, but after going through Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas, I'm convinced the guy's got chops.
Ghostwritten was pretty damn impressive for a debut novel, and the loose connection of stories through theme and intertextual play was intriguing.
Cloud Atlas took that style and refined it, it's much more polished and clever, and the stories within stories within stories could've been a gimmicky trick, but it came off as a sincere look at interrelation and neither jeremiad on personal responsibility or an overly long production of "It's A Small World After All."
That House of Leaves joker wishes he had the creativity of this guy.

>> No.2848173

>>2848167
>he's so good, so why would he care about /lit/?

Makes you wonder why this thread exists

>> No.2848174

I've read Mitchell's first four books, they're great.

number9dream my personal favorite, black swan green is brilliant, cloud atlas is dynamite. ghostwritten is good.

sometimes, though, I somehow feel a lack of accomplishment or fulfillment of the type of meaning he is striving for/should be achieving.

sort of like michael chabon somehow. disappointing ultimately, although pleasurable at the time.

I would love to read more of Mitchell's work in the future and am incredibly happy that this movie looks like its going to be a big deal and possibly help get some financial stability after over 20 years of work

>> No.2848178

>>2848170
No, you're mistaken. He is shit, and having read both Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas, I can vouch.

>> No.2848181

This guy has been an up-and-comer for years... last year /lit/ had dozens of threads about him and not one moron posing that it was advertising.

>> No.2848182

>>2848173
This thread exists because he is a literary figure and this is a literature board. Obviously.

>> No.2848187

>>2848178
Please elaborate.

>> No.2848190

>>2848178
>I can vouch.

Oh, okay. Amid all the excellent reviews one anonymous malcontent is calling him shit. This is huge news. I hope the Huffington Post covers this breaking story!

>> No.2848385

If people can't argue about you, you're worthless as writer.

Prove me wrong.

>> No.2848392

>>2848385
K

>> No.2848406

>>2848385
I was honestly wanting the guy to make his case, it's why I asked him to elaborate. I like Mitchell, but there's room for criticism. His treatment of post-colonialism is way too typical of English writers, for starters, and his works are almost superficial in their treatment of man vs. man/man vs. nature as extension of man vs. himself, the old adage about pointing one finger and three others point back at you, yada yada yada...

>> No.2848480

>>2848126
he looks so happy
>original content