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Ghostwritten

By: David Mitchell
Narrated by: Daniel York Loh, Sadeo Ueda, Eugenia Low, Lucy Paterson, Simon Slater, Grainne Gillis, Thomas Judd, Tina Chiang
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Winner of the Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

A magnificent achievement and an engrossing experience, David Mitchell's first novel announced the arrival of one of the most exciting writers of the 21st century.

An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what links him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? Or to a Mongolian gangster, a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree and a late night New York DJ?

Set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, Ghostwritten weaves together a host of characters, their interconnected destinies determined by the inescapable forces of cause and effect.

©1999 David Mitchell (P)2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Science Fiction Fiction

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I can't understand the reviews saying the performances were breathy and hard to understand - were we listening to the same recording?? I didn't notice any issues like that at all, all very clear and well interpreted. A couple of characters didn't quite have the voice they have in my head (Neal Brose and Marco, mainly) but they were still believable as their characters and made for a brilliant audiobook.

Great performance of my favourite book!

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Not the best david Mitchell book. Typical of his style. Bouncing around different stories that are tangentially linked. For some reason this one fell short for me.

Left feeling that I missed the point.

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My first David Mitchell. This is a series of shorter stories, each a stand alone but linked to the others by coincidences and chance. There are elements of mysticism and fantasy in places too. It is obvious that Mitchell can really write, his skills are breathtaking. For me it is let down by some of the performances, the accents are borderline terrible and you can hear the reader breathing at times. In terms of the stories the one set Ireland really dragged for me, it felt self indulgent and with stereotypes for characters. Overall though I really enjoyed this and will be reading / listening to more from David Mitchell.

Great book let down by some of the performances

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London was my favourite. But now I’m left with more questions.
His books must end up as standard school texts. Sorry kids!

I hear a bike pump

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As with David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, this story is made up of lots of different narratives, each one in a unique voice.. and so the producers of the audiobook have used different performers for each section.. and just like Cloud Atlas this little touch does wonders, literally giving each character their own voice!
The novel is brilliantly written, has a bit of everything in it.. loved every story equally. Can’t recommend enough

David Mitchell and the producers have done it again!

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His series of books are a masterpiece of literary enjoyment. Every time I re read I find something I missed first time round.

Love David. Love his series of books.

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I agree with some of the other reviewers comments on the performance- for example the Irish story, the New Zealand accent is terrible and the London story, marco starts off like he’s just finished a run and needs an inhaler- but this is just a small part of the book.
The stories carry you along, but I feel like there was no conclusion to any.
All in all an enjoyable listen, but it didn’t take my breath away, it was quite forgettable

Meh

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I love this book and delighted to have the unabridged version on Audible. The production however is cheap! Breathy, noisy performances with some downright awful accents.
My advice is re-record this book with the voice artists from the first book.

Poor Performance great story

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This is a fantastic first novel from David Mitchell. Like a lot of people probably I started with Cloud Atlas and have been picking up others here and there, and it's really impressive to see how well some of the ideas I knew from his later novels in this debut. I like that each main character had their own narrator, but some performances and stories are better than others. This story is a slow burn and things don't really come together until very late, but the journey is worth it if you enjoyed Cloud Atlas, or generally enjoy short story compilations or stories that feature different weaving narratives.

Slow burn but well worth it

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Thought the ending was very disappointing. There were some really good parts to this book and the writer is talented but it needed something more at the end.

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