I am reading Cloud Atlas. David Mitchell is a genius. I
concur whole heartedly with the New York Time review on the back on the
book: “Mitchell is clearly a genius. he
writes as thought at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do
anything, and his ambition s written in magna across this novel’s every page.”
I have absolutely no idea how he does it. It is magnificent
writing. Mitchell takes me somewhere. Takes me wherever he wants to because the
worlds he creates are irresistible, complete; simultaneously strange and
familiar, compelling and outlandish. I love the novel. I love David Mitchell.
