Cloud Atlas in Overdue Podcast

Dec 11, 2020 Jason rated it it was amazing

Shelves: own, 2020-top-10

What a completely consumable Russian doll of a book. It's this big, philosophical fiction that has this time-play, genre shifting, style altering collection of six different stories. It's writing about writing and story telling about how stories touch/influence others lives and stories. That is a lot to take on, but Mitchell does it and he does it REALLY well.

I'm searching for some complaint to make, and I feel like the clear target is that there is a gimmicky quality to that basic format/struc ...more

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Dec 14, 2012 Tiffani rated it it was ok

Shelves: read-in-2012, fiction-general

I have a bad habit of sticking with a book even when I'm not enjoying it. I always hope that it is going to get better if I just give it enough time. I have to learn that it's okay to give up and move on to something I enjoy more. This was one of those times I should have given up. As hard as I tried I could not get into this book. I did admire the unusual structure and ambition of this book, which is divided into seven stories. After the seventh story comes the second half of the first six stor ...more

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Oct 16, 2015 Amanda rated it liked it · review of another edition

I've finally finished Cloud Atlas and I'm not quite sure how a feel about it as a whole. I really like five of the narratives and think that "An Orison of Somni-451" is one of the finest dystopian stories I have ever read, but the stories never really clicked for me as part of one over-arching story.

The sixth narrative, "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After", I hate, hate, hate! It took me longer to read that one section that it did all the others combined! ...more

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