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Here's a novel I would have loved to love. David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas" has a scope, structure and boldness for linguistic experimentation that baffles in its ambition. It's a jigsaw puzzle of narrative layers within layers, a mash-up of genres, styles, tones and vocabularies.
It all starts in the Pacific during the year 1850. An American notary by the name of Adam Erwig writes a journal of a hellish journey of sickness, fear and endless waiting.
During the trip, Erwig gets an intimate look into ...more
It all starts in the Pacific during the year 1850. An American notary by the name of Adam Erwig writes a journal of a hellish journey of sickness, fear and endless waiting.
During the trip, Erwig gets an intimate look into ...more
Well-written, intelligent, but a little too precious for its own good. "Cloud Atlas" is like 6 novellas loosely bound together. Each is written in a different literary style, which helped to evoke the flavor of a different era but also made it come across as a tad disjointed and, frankly, overly clever. My favorite part was the dystopian "An Orison of Sonmi-451", which I would have loved to see stand alone as its own work.
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