Cloud Atlas in Reading with Style

Mar 23, 2015 Whitney rated it really liked it

I really wanted to like this book. The feeling of reading this book was like riding a boomerang through multiple space-time dimensions. Each time a new section began, I wondered, "how much further into dystopia am I going now?" (And then the bad punster in my mind immediately replied, "Dystopia. Not dat-topia.") The total number of main characters is six, but I lost count several times... sea traveler Adam Ewing; composer Robert Frobisher; journalist Luisa Rey; involuntarily retired Timothy Cave ...more

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Jan 11, 2011 Chinook rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 1001, korea, 1-kindle, asia, dystopia, apocalyptic

So, this book blew my mind. That first chapter, I wasn't too impressed. It was sort of meh, and I wondered what everyone was raving about and then it ended really abruptly and I was confused. The second chapter, still kind of meh, though it interested me that there was a connection between the two. And then by part three, I was completely and utterly hooked. It's the language, the technique, the fascinating way each connects with the other and how the things that you accept as fact turn out to b ...more

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Nov 30, 2012 d rated it it was ok

There is no doubt that Mitchell is able to write in distinct styles and voices, and that in itself is interesting and intellectually appealing. To me, this book was a bit like listening to Wagner: more than half the intellectual porn of it is analyzing the writing and how impressively he's created this epic story line.

Parts of the story held me and others felt dragged out and tedious. Some of it was quite excellent - especially the first part of Sonmi~451. I don't feel like this was a life-chan ...more

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