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My experience with Cloud Atlas, book and film, has been a most unusual one. Pretty much always, if a book in one of my general areas of interest attracts enough attention to be actually greenlit and made into a film, I won't go near said film until I've read the book, which is always better than the film (even though I love film). I figured this case would be no different, so when previews for this film started showing up before all the big dumb superhero movies and whatnot this summer, I took n
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I think I may have psyched myself out about this one. I was told that it was challenging, high-brow literature, and so I pre-judged that I wouldn't "get" it. I'm glad I gave it the college try, though, because I think these nested and entwined stories are very good. A few of them took some time for me to find the rhythm, but it wasn't insurmountably difficult.
I enjoyed the differences in tone and writing style among the six stories. And I liked most of the main characters, especially Luisa Rey a ...more
I enjoyed the differences in tone and writing style among the six stories. And I liked most of the main characters, especially Luisa Rey a ...more
While story-within-story structure supplies some interest, the bad bad things that the author does to English language in the SF tales make reading a huge chore.
About 40% into this book, I would have given it 5 starts. I loved the unusual structure - the different voices of each story - the cliff hanger endings. But then I got to the sixth story, which I absolutely hated. The dialect was tortuous, the story boring, the philosophy too much like a beginning undergraduate philosophy class. My sentiments towards this central story made it difficult to finish the rest of the stories, which were okay. Overall, I have very mixed feelings about this book.
Mar 20, 2017
Inge
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it was amazing
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Absolutely brilliant, wondrous and marvellous. Loved it. :)
Just couldn't get into it
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Susan
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The Lady Anna
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