Tim Cavendish is My Hero
First off, I realllllly like David Mitchell. He’s the best author I’ve read in years. Indeed, Cloud Atlas, the first book I’d read by him, sort of woke me up again to how good fiction can be. I’d forgotten amid all the ponderous work which had grand ambitions how much fun reading can be.
Sounds crazy, I know. But the best book I’d read prior to Cloud Atlas was The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which, while quite great in it’s own right, wasn’t really what I’d call “fun”. It was closer to fun than The Corrections, which I of course never finished, a book which more or less defines what a lack of fun is all about. After all, The Corrections is serious literature, not meant to be enjoyed so much as consumed for medicinal purposes.
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