Anyone else find David Mitchell books a bit.......um.......dull?

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I've tried Cloud Atlas and failed miserably.
I'm now about a quarter of the way through The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and it is such a hard slog.
Is it just me? Should I carry on? I hate giving up on books but it is just such tough work reading it.
His reviews seem to be fantastic but I just can't seem to read them.

thetasigmamum I don't actually doubt that he wrote BSG, but it's just in such a different style to all his other books. I have to admit I just assumed it was written before the others- interesting that he switched to that style and then switched back - a good thing IMO.

he's brilliant

I don't usually persevere if I'm not into a book after 50 pages - but I kept going with Cloud Atlas which didn't grip me until about p100! But it was totally worth it.

Liking a book is a very personal thing, sometimes the book resonates with the mood your in, sometimes it leaves you cold. Personally I think that there are many great books in the world, so why continue reading one your clearly bored with. If I haven't got into the story after 100 pages then I put it to one side these days. I did persevere and read Gabriel Garcia Marquez 'One Hundred Years of Solitutude but god it felt like it had taken me 100 years to read it

My paperback edition of Thousand Autumns has a dramatis personnae at the back which I found incredibly helpful. ANyone who is struggling may want to take a look.

Very dull.

I loved Black Swan Green and quite liked Cloud Atlas.

I've not read any of the others, but I've just downloaded a sample of Ghostwritten to my Kindle. What do you think, is it worth downloading the rest?

baking - I never finished 'one hundred years of solitude'. I got stuck with the Lacuna too.

Lacuna...is that the one by Barbara Kingsolver. I bought that the other year but never read it. DH tried but said he couldn't get into it, we have quite similar tastes in books. I loved the Poisonwood Bible though which made me buy Lacuna. I'll let it gather dust on the bookshelves then. If you like South American literature I can recommend The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargos Llosa

Pourneanother I think I possibly loved Ghostwritten more than Cloud Altas. Possibly.

I really loved the change of style for Black Swan Green too, but did struggle with Number9Dream...I got into it fully towards the end, but think I only persevered because I took on holiday with me and so had less choice to dump it!

Despite buying it when it first came out, I've not got very far with Thousand Autumns, and it's been discarded on the upstairs bookcase. Should I give it another chance? I found it hard work, but I've loved everything else by DM so much...do I need to give it another bash or categorise it in my mind as another Number9, good but possibly not (dare I say?) worth the effort?
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I really loved the Poisonwood Bible - I'm going to give the Lacuna shelf space for a while and but I suspect it will have be replaced.

Will take a look at Ghostwritten.

Thought cloud atlas was very very clever but I didn't love it. I was reading it thinking 'oh yes this is clever, oh I can see what hes done there' but overall I was meh about the story and characters.

I have Thousand Autumns but have never gotten around to reading it