
The Bone Clocks
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David Mitchell
David Mitchell is an eloquent conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist. His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit - it is fiction at its most spellbinding and memorable.
Following a scalding row with her mother, 15-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people", Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life. For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics - and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly's life, affecting all the people Holly loves - even the ones who are not yet born. A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting from occupied Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list - all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world.
From the medieval Swiss Alps to the 19th-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder. Rich with character and realms of possibility, The Bone Clocks is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together.
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Also, as an oncology nurse, I do love the idea of referring to humans as "bone clocks ". As sad as that might seem, it's completely spot on.
What a wonderful surprise
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Felt unsure what it wanted to be
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Must have patience
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What did you like best about The Bone Clocks? What did you like least?
If this was a imagining of a fictional character's biography only, it would be good. The few slips into a sci-fi world could be written off as delusion. Then I could have saved many hours of listening waiting for the sci-fi to kick in. Instead there are large areas of basic day to day life with a teaser to an underlying mystery. In the last third you get into the mystery and think finally there is the true story. But it is like someone just switches the channel just as it is getting good. At the end I was driving home from work and found myself yelling, "that's it!?!"How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
More of the sci-fi parts.Which scene was your favorite?
I enjoyed the main character getting let in on the grand scheme of the secret society.Did The Bone Clocks inspire you to do anything?
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Good but lengthy
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A winding story, threaded thinly
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Not as philosophical as Cloud Atlas, nor as cohesive as "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoot," this new string of novellas is worth the listen.
A brilliantly written string of novellas
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loved it!
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A must read!
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The book didn't leave me clamoring for another David Mitchell book but I'd probably read him again. The great parts of the story were enough to think I'd like his other books.
Took a little while to get it.
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