![]() ![]() He’s a very decent performer, but for me he delivered a tone that gave the characters and situations within the novel, a ‘young adult fiction’ style, cartoon like quality, and I think this was one of the reasons I found it difficult to ever feel there were multidimensional characters peopling this book. Almost immediately I was aware that the choice of performer was a problem. I preordered the hard back (it’s still not arrived), but I wasn’t too miffed, because I had a credit, so I got the audiobook too. News that he’d chosen to set Utopia Avenue in the mid to late 60s and to focus on the brief life of a band that almost made it, had me genuinely excited for this book. I disagreed entirely with the professional critics who found fault in the supernatural elements of Bone Clocks, personally I found the strange alternate existence he conjured, quite brilliant, and I was happy to read that Utopia Avenue would continue with these Atemporal parallel lives. Over the years all I’ve found in Mitchell’s works are positives. I love his writing and the worlds he creates, and I really didn’t want to be writing a negative review today. For me, every book by David Mitchell is an event. ![]()
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