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Colson Whitehead, Apex hides the hurt.
Mar. 8th, 2010 10:36 pmI picked this up because I loved The Intuitionist, which may have elevated my expectations – I enjoyed this, for the most part, but I didn’t love it, and possibly it’s suffered a bit by comparison. It’s still very good.
( Colson Whitehead, Apex hides the hurt. )
And I have just discovered there is a new David Mitchell book due out in May. I am madly excited by this (I loved Cloud Atlas) and even more excited to discover that it's set in Japan in 1799 with a Dutch protagonist, and an opening chapter complete with engravings from period obstetric texts. What I should really do now is read the last forty pages or so of Number9dream, which I think is a book with a lot of potential but also a lot of ability to irritate the reader - I got so caught up in the kaiten (submarine version of kamikaze) pilot's diaries that I couldn't cope with returning to the present day protagonist, and put it down for just that little bit too long. Black Swan Green was perfectly admirable technically, but I'm personally not fond of the novel as a linked series of short stories approach.
( Colson Whitehead, Apex hides the hurt. )
And I have just discovered there is a new David Mitchell book due out in May. I am madly excited by this (I loved Cloud Atlas) and even more excited to discover that it's set in Japan in 1799 with a Dutch protagonist, and an opening chapter complete with engravings from period obstetric texts. What I should really do now is read the last forty pages or so of Number9dream, which I think is a book with a lot of potential but also a lot of ability to irritate the reader - I got so caught up in the kaiten (submarine version of kamikaze) pilot's diaries that I couldn't cope with returning to the present day protagonist, and put it down for just that little bit too long. Black Swan Green was perfectly admirable technically, but I'm personally not fond of the novel as a linked series of short stories approach.
