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I loved this book. (Another case of 4 1/2 stars, upgraded to 5 stars.)
Before reading Cloud Atlas, I knew that it was comprised of a series of stories nested within each other. What I didn't realize was that each story is written in completely different styles. At first, it was a bit jarring, but then made sense given the context of each section.
At each section break where the given narrator's story ended, cliff-hanger style, I kept thinking "No, I want more! Don't stop here!" Then the next sect ...more
Before reading Cloud Atlas, I knew that it was comprised of a series of stories nested within each other. What I didn't realize was that each story is written in completely different styles. At first, it was a bit jarring, but then made sense given the context of each section.
At each section break where the given narrator's story ended, cliff-hanger style, I kept thinking "No, I want more! Don't stop here!" Then the next sect ...more
Wow. Loved it. Six novellas written over a timeline of hundreds of years.It's difficult to even begin to touch on the themes throughout the book. How we are all as a race connected? How greed will ultimately destroy civilisation as we know it?
The first five stories, an Americans journal of his trip in the South Pacific in the Nineteenth Century; the letters from a musically prodigious bisexual rake in Belgium in the 1930's to his lover back home in England; the addressee of those letters some 3 ...more
The first five stories, an Americans journal of his trip in the South Pacific in the Nineteenth Century; the letters from a musically prodigious bisexual rake in Belgium in the 1930's to his lover back home in England; the addressee of those letters some 3 ...more
So, this book blew my mind. That first chapter, I wasn't too impressed. It was sort of meh, and I wondered what everyone was raving about and then it ended really abruptly and I was confused. The second chapter, still kind of meh, though it interested me that there was a connection between the two. And then by part three, I was completely and utterly hooked. It's the language, the technique, the fascinating way each connects with the other and how the things that you accept as fact turn out to b
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Everyone should read this book, it is bound to become a prophetic neo-classic for coming generations. The author must be as close to a literary and linguistic genius as the 21st century has yet seen writing in the English language. It was a pleasure, almost a privilege to be able to read (and, to some extent, grasp). Though it did often make me feel rather inadequate about my own knowledge of my mother tongue. I will have to give it a second read at some point in the not too distant future in or
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