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Gnocchic Apocryphon's avatar

I keep meaning to read through Rachel Pollack's Doom Patrol run to see how it holds up vs Morrison.

That Mitchell sounds interesting-It's funny with him how I always forget if I've read Cloud Atlas or not, which never happens to me with any other big writer!

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John Pistelli's avatar

Yes, same here on Pollack's DP. Of Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas, and The Bone Clocks, Ghostwritten might be best. James Wood wasn't totally wrong in one of his Mitchell reviews that there's something weightless or arbitrary in his inventions; but he is responding to a different media and technological environment than the one in which the models of authenticity of realism and modernism developed.

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