Has anyone on /lit/ read any David Mitchell? I had heard he was an entertaining non-'literary' po-mo author, but I tried reading pic related and it felt achingly pretentious in its attempt to be 'literary.'
is anything by him worth reading? does this book get better?
Just watch Peep Show, it's an absurdist masterpiece.
Read cloud atlas, my fwb called me out for reading chick lit and the book is pretentious as fuck, made me cringe at times. I think Mitchel is a pseud.
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I read Cloud Atlas. It felt painful. At the time i thought i was reading a masterpiece. It will probably feel that way to somebody who hasn't read that much. It feels intricate and well thought out but now i look back and see it as lazy and trite. Overall your time--worthless as it may be, since you are here--would be better spent reading something else.