This month CM Lowry is talking to CJ Eggett, writer and game designer, about number9dream by David Mitchell in ‘This Book I Read...’
Topics covered include:
The common confusion between David Mitchell the author and David Mitchell the comedian of Peep Show fame! Mitchell's use of modern magical realism to sort of lull the reader into a false sense of security before tricking them. Using similar literary themes throughout the book to pull the reader back to central themes. Mitchells clever use of language to capture the imagination of the reader. Intertextuality - full living worlds of things and stuff that connect with each other between texts. Or objects placed with a text that connect the created world with out real world. The process that Mitchell works with to create as authentic an experience as possible for his settings and characters. CJ encourages us to hunt out number9dream and read it because, in his opinion, it's David Mitchells best book. It's wildly underrated, full of fun and high drama. Stories within stories within stories, like Russian dolls!Links to things we discussed:
CM Lowry's latest Kickstarter Project Four Borg MORK BORG The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The poet Anne Carson The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick Making History by Stephen Fry House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende What I talk about when I talk about running by Haruki Murakami A Wild Sheep Chase …
