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    <body><![CDATA[First and foremost, this is a book about form. Four of the five stories are broken in half, each one ‘nesting’ (thanks, Chabon) inside the other until we get to the apex of the novel in one complete, contained story. It’s an intriguing project for many reasons. Firstly, there are the more form...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1207889">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This, Sir, is a Novel. I don't think I've read anything so surprisingly excellent since <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norell" title=" Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell"> Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norell</a>. Actually, I have. What I meant to say is that I've read nothing so marvelously epic since then. As usual, my attempts to explain it to people have met with polite nods and chang...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9641629">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think people sometimes toss around the idea that something they've read or seen or heard has &quot;changed&quot; them. I almost never come away from something feeling changed, at least not in any way that I can immediately sense. But after I'd finished Cloud Atlas, I had this bizarre, unshakable f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3704605">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book can be called a matryoshka novel, delivering six compelling stories in six different locales and time periods, all accordion-folded into one another. This seems on the surface easy to do. Just come up with six novellas and put them in chronological order and then take the first five and ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10637815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book and its nesting stories very much and was left to ponder--what does it all mean?  In my view (an perhaps no one else's!) Mitchell has re-interpreted Virgil's Aeneid to provide us a guiding myth for the destruction of Western civilization--just as Virgil provided the guiding myth ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10162998">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell--recommended<br/>This is a VERY long book. Mostly because it is several books in one. One of the professional reviewers compared it to a Russian nesting doll -- a very apt comparison. I enjoyed this book and intend to read it again in the future. It's difficult to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2625378">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[About 50 pages from the end of the book, I found myself in line at Book People, about to purchase a fresh copy to give a visiting Jeni Wischmeyer as a gift.  I noticed my friend Ian in line ahead of me, so I tapped him on the shoulder and initiated one of those awkward 30 second conversations that h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2147943">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Apologies again: this book did take me a while to finish, but I got through it finally over a week ago and just haven't been able to sit down and write up my thoughts until now. I've been doing a lot of my own writing these past few weeks and it's hard to justify stopping that (when it's going well)...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24233777">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book takes a very dim view of human history and of human beings, although in each story challenges to this viewpoint do happen.<br/><br/>This book consists of what I thought of as 6 novellas or long short stories. They’re all interconnected into one big novel. The first five stories, all in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2071459">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Cloud Atlas</em> was the most challenging book I read in 2006. It was also the most rewarding. A bravura literary performance if ever I saw one, <em>Cloud Atlas</em> weaves together six vastly different stories which are all, in a way, about story-telling. We start reading the journal of a nineteenth-century trav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6287861">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ A Good Concept is Not Enough: I have a feeling this may become my mantra. David Mitchell, take note.<br/><br/><em>Cloud Atlas</em> has a very good concept, but is only mediocre-ly executed, in my opinion. It contains six interlocking stories which have been recorded in various media. In each consecutive s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30114750">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never heard of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= David Mitchell" title=" David Mitchell"> David Mitchell</a> before, so I didn't know what to expect from this book. What a treat it turned out to be! This is hands-down one of the best books I have ever read. I can't help but feel that Mitchell has ruined me for other authors. What he does with the english language is simp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24452500">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this to be a riveting page-turner.  I would find excuses to stop what I was doing so I could read this book.  I even read it when I was walking home from school, only looking up every few seconds to make sure I wasn't going to run in to anyone or when I was crossing the street.<br/><br/>Revi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11751970">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not only is the structure of this book remarkable, but each interrelated short story (broken into two pieces, one part told in ascending chronological order, from the days of seafaring explorers, to 1930s Europe, to 1970s sci-fi-noir, to near future Korea, to post-apocalyptic Hawaii, and then back a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3001084">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Incredible. Very well written, unique, and fun. All six intertwined stories were excellent, and I was pleasantly surprised that two of them had science fiction elements to them. One is a future society of replicant slaves and the other is about a tribe of post-apocalyptic natives trying to survive i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21080452">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stunning. This book was fantastic! <br/><br/>This book is one cohesive novel, written as a series of six short stories. Each story takes place in a different location and time period, and is written in a completely different style, narrative tone, etc. They are each individual, self-contained stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6555909">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has 6 parts:<br/><br/>The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing - Set in the mid 19th century, this is the story of a lawyer from San Francisco, trying to make his way back from Australia to San Francisco.  This story is told via Adam Ewing's entries in his journal.<br/><br/>Letters from Zedel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4036899">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel most certainly requires patience. A stream of 6 different narrative voices across a thousand years, the book deserts the reader in a Calvino-If-On-a-Winter's-Night-Traveler style, goading the reader into a building plot and then deserting him at its climax. Yet unlike Calvino's frustratin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9315194">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cloud Atlas unfolded patiently, but with perfect pacing. I found myself becoming increasingly drawn into the many worlds, that are really one world, of the story, until I could think of nothing else but this book. It's been a long time since I read anything so engrossing, and I wish it wasn't over. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40436260">more...</a>]]></body>
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