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Another reread from when I was eighteen years old. This book isn’t as forthrightly enjoyable as Number9dream, which was this headlong surge into urban surrealism and ultraviolence and rivening familial loss and the travails of being a lovelorn story-tinkerer in an immense and alienating metropolis. Cloud Atlas is a very self-consciously thinky project that constantly calls attention to its own fictiveness. (Same’s true of Number9dream, except in CA the tale-spinner’s an even more pronounced pres
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So, I thought this was one of the best books I've ever "read." I'd certainly put it on everyone's essential reading list. The structure is admirably intelligent, dovetailing with some essential questions built into this book -- is reincarnation for real? what meaning do our lives have? what remains of us after we die? -- but also bringing eras and voices and characters to vivid life, and building in a cyclical sense which echoed the themes of the book. I loved the language, too, which is downrig
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Better than I expected. Still feels a little like a workshop exercise taken all the way out book form though.
17 years on and it's still a wonderful read.
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