David Mitchell is a chameleon -- at least in this book. Six stories, six styles.

"Sloosha's Crossin' etc." was a bit hard to get through, mainly due to the dialect. If the whole of the book contained that many apostrophes, there's no way I'd have finished it.

I think my favourite section was "An Orison of Sonmi~451"; my least favourite "The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing" (though I really came to dislike Robert Frobisher, the louche letter-writer in "Letters from Zedelghem").

Overall, I'd recommend this to a friend.