Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

If you like David Mitchell, you’ll probably like it.

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

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Hello! I love David Mitchell. Sometimes I don’t understand David Mitchell. Recently I learned he’s only 52, i.e., a couple of months *younger* than me, and so much younger than he was in my head, and was all, “You bastard!” But what has any of that to do with The Bone Clocks? Why, nothing at all! The Bone Clocks is somewhat similar in structure to Cloud Atlas, though not as complicated…structurally. It’s plenty complicated. There are immortals among us! There are good immortals and bad […]

Great story, great words, all good.

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Let me start this review by admitting that I love David Mitchell. I love everything he writes and I love that he interweaves his novels so there are always little references to previous works of his. The Bone Clocks is no different.  I loved it and I loved the small references to previous novels.  Now, you certainly don’t need to read The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet or Black Swan Green to appreciate The Bone Clocks, but you should read them anyway because they […]

Some books are a meal, The Bone Clocks is a banquet.

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Even if you personally have a hand in a battle against good and evil that shook the very pillars of Heaven, when the smoke clears and the evil is vanquished eventually life will return to normal. While you were locked in your own high stakes fight billions of others walk through their day with their own joys and miseries, burdens and triumphs. While you may have won this particular battle ultimately you can’t save the world. The best you can do is save those you […]

Like Cloud Atlas, only better

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Hoo boy. I said 2014 would be my Year of Big Books and this is most definitely a Big Book in all senses of the word. It is close to 600 pages in hardback with fairly small print, so it’s literally big. It covers a span of over fifty years and many characters, so it’s figuratively also big. And it’s not actually published until September 2nd 2014, so the fact that I have been able to read an advance copy is frankly HUGE. The proof […]



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