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Look, I read a real-life book
Jun. 26th, 2002 06:50 pmI just finished reading the following book:
Title: number9dream
Author: David Mitchell, born in 1969
Publisher: Sceptre
Date: 2001
Pairing: Eiji Miyake/Ai Imajo, and some others
Rating: NC-17 for violence; PG-13 for sex
Warnings/Content: orig. char.; hetfic!
Summary: 20-year old boy from Japanese province comes to Tokyo to search for his father whom he's never met. Along the way, he becomes involved with Yakuza gangs, pizza cooks, his father's family and other assorted weirdos. He also has a lot of memories, mostly of his alcoholic mother and his drowned twin sister.
Reader's Notes: Slow start but once I got into it, I really enjoyed it. First-person, present tense. Lots of plot and thrills and twists and surprises plus nice poetic but at the same time razor-sharp prose. E.g.: "An egg cracks on my head and yolky happiness dribbles." Lurches from style to style, e.g. from sci-fi fairy tale (a book read by Eiji) to dry, wartime journal (Eiji's great-uncle's diary).
Recced by: Shortlisted for Booker Prize.
Downside: No boy-on-boy action.
In other news: Thank God Brazil is through to the final! Go, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho and Roberto Carlos!! (There only seem to be about 2 names to go round in Brazil.)
Title: number9dream
Author: David Mitchell, born in 1969
Publisher: Sceptre
Date: 2001
Pairing: Eiji Miyake/Ai Imajo, and some others
Rating: NC-17 for violence; PG-13 for sex
Warnings/Content: orig. char.; hetfic!
Summary: 20-year old boy from Japanese province comes to Tokyo to search for his father whom he's never met. Along the way, he becomes involved with Yakuza gangs, pizza cooks, his father's family and other assorted weirdos. He also has a lot of memories, mostly of his alcoholic mother and his drowned twin sister.
Reader's Notes: Slow start but once I got into it, I really enjoyed it. First-person, present tense. Lots of plot and thrills and twists and surprises plus nice poetic but at the same time razor-sharp prose. E.g.: "An egg cracks on my head and yolky happiness dribbles." Lurches from style to style, e.g. from sci-fi fairy tale (a book read by Eiji) to dry, wartime journal (Eiji's great-uncle's diary).
Recced by: Shortlisted for Booker Prize.
Downside: No boy-on-boy action.
In other news: Thank God Brazil is through to the final! Go, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho and Roberto Carlos!! (There only seem to be about 2 names to go round in Brazil.)