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I can best sum up the brilliance of the novel Cloud Atlas as: a self-contained meta-fictional, layered, narrative of ambitious and epic proportions.
I read that David Mitchell came up with his grandiose plot when thinking about designing a narrative along the lines of a Russian doll. And this is precisely the manner in which Cloud Atlas has been constructed. The novel is constructed of six interlinking stories; each save the sixth is broken into two halves so that we end up with a narrative like ...more
It's fair to say that I did not enjoy this book, the fact that it too me nearly three weeks to read it speaks volumes for how disinterested I was in its conclusion. I know there are many people out there who love this book but I simply didn't get it.
When I read the back cover and saw that the novel was six interconnecting stories spanning several centuries I have to say I was very interested, it sounds new, different and very exciting. However the problem was that there weren't six interconnect ...more
When I read the back cover and saw that the novel was six interconnecting stories spanning several centuries I have to say I was very interested, it sounds new, different and very exciting. However the problem was that there weren't six interconnect ...more
Where do I begin with this book? If I'm going to be 100% honest here, the first chapter was torture and I almost gave up. I hated it and was having such a hard time actually paying attention I often just read the words and did not take anything in, but I would not give up. The book just got better from the end of that chapter. The different narrations were fascinating. Not all characters were likable, but there was something redeeming in the narrators. The middle part was probably one of the har
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To be honest, I picked this book up because I thought the movie trailer looked interesting. I didn't really know the story going in, other than what was in the trailer. The first few pages, I was a bit apprehensive and was worried that the whole book would be like that. It wasn't! It quickly picked up and was became highly readable. I liked that the chapters were somewhat interwoven while still maintaining their individuality. I didn't connect to the section set the furthest in the future, possi
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