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I'm giving this book 2 stars because I enjoyed some of the stories, others not so much. I heard that the stories will make sense and fit together once I got to near the end, I think I missed it. I did listen to the audio and maybe some of it was lost in translation for me. I have not seen the movie, but I think I will and hopefully this book will make more sense and maybe I should re-read the book after watching the movie and this time read it instead of listening to it. But clearly, I did not g
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How rich can a book be? This sextet of interlocking stories is unique in structure and full of literary and musical references. I was in charge of the discussion at our book club and i had over 100 tabs in the book and dozens of pages of notes. Reading this book was ridiculously fun, challenging and thought provoking. It is composed of six stories that pull you through time and back again. The narratives travel from the past (1850, 1931, 1975, 2000) to two undated futures (both dystopian). Each
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What a novel. I can't possibly imagine Mitchell topping it, but I suppose we'll see. This is a very thought-provoking work, with intentional layers upon layers of connections between characters who lived decades, sometimes centuries apart from one another, who had nothing yet everything to do with one other. The messages and theories in this novel on life, death, love, and human progress are both bleak and encouraging, which I find inherently appropriate. I highly recommend this novel to anyone
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The six deceptively interconnected stories in Cloud Atlas are compelling, poignant, funny, pointed, insightful,and possibly most of all, thought provoking. I can't help but admire the author's ability to write such a powerful group of stories, each with it's own focus and thrust, yet each relating to all the other stories. What makes an author great, in my mind,and definitely what David Mitchell has done in Cloud Atlas, is devising a compelling narrative by weaving thoughts, ideas,and perspectiv
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Mar 16, 2011
Heather (DeathByBook)
marked it as to-read
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Mary Chambers
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Oct 30, 2011
Megan
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it was amazing
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