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Cloud Atlas
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Start date
February 16, 2013
Finish date
February 28, 2013
Discussion leader
Nadine
Why we're reading this
Leserund ab 16.02

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Shanoe
Jun 30, 2019 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2019
Phew - that was some sort of battle here. I can't really say that I enjoyed reading that book very much - especially the first and the last of the different perspectives didn't really appeal to me. Sometimes I really had the impression that I am just too dumb for this book and I'm sure there are many interessting ideas lying underneath, but I didn't find them.
Nevertheless, I appreciated the development of the storys, the connections between them and the arc they are building. I recognize that t
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Nadine
Sep 26, 2012 rated it really liked it
Bei der Bewertung dieses Buches bin ich gespalten. Einerseits fand ich es grandios geschrieben, andererseits waren einige Passagen einfach mühsam zu lesen. Mit etwas Abstand betrachtet, tragen aber gerade diese Passagen dazu bei, dass Cloud Atlas ein so vielseitiges Werk geworden ist.

Was mir besonders gefallen hat, war dass jede Geschichte ihren ganz eigenen Charakter hatte. Nicht nur, dass jede Geschichte ihr eigenes "Format" hatte (Briefzyklus, Interview etc.), jede Geschichte wurde zum Beispi
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Ascari Vau
May 03, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
David Mitchells "Wolkenatlas" lag eigentlich schon auf meinem SuB, seit ich zum ersten Mal die Verfilmung im Kino gesehen hatte ... Seither war ich wieder einmal neugierig, wie unterschiedlich Verfilmung und Original sein würden :).

Zum Inhalt:

Es ist hier wirklich schwer, etwas zum Inhalt zu sagen, wenn ich nicht gleich einen ganzen Roman schreiben möchte. Der Roman enthält insgesamt sechs Geschichten, die vom 19. Jahrhundert bis in eine unbekannte Zukunft reichen und die alle miteinander durch b
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Millari
Nov 23, 2012 rated it it was amazing
My second time around reading this book and it's still as good as I remember. One of the books whose characters will stay with me the rest of my life. I love how this book manages to both be epic and scope and yet draw you into each separate story's world in a very intimate, emotional way. This book is a philosophical manifesto about human nature disguised as a novel, but it really never feels that way. You just realize it in these little moments, where you are pleasantly struck by how the stori ...more
Bookcrazy
Feb 16, 2013 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Meine kurze Meinung zum Buch:
Leider konnte mich das Buch nicht überzeugen. Teilweise gefielen mir die Geschichten nicht, teilweise gab es Schreibstile, die einfach zäh zu lesen waren.
David Mitchell erzählt 6 Geschichten und bricht diese teilweise abrupt ab um diese dann retrograd fertig zu erzählen. Der Autor macht sich viel Mühe, erfindet für jede Geschichte etwas Einzigartiges - einzigartige Schreib- Sprachstile oder erfindet neue Wörter für die fantastischen Geschichten z.B. die Sonmi-Erzählu
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Jules
Nov 15, 2012 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: krakenbuch
Krakenbuch means I read this together with my boyfriend Tony. We read it out loud to each other, so it takes a lot more time to finish a book.
Here are our opinions:


Jules: 2 stars. horribly pretentious and trivial. terribly written with a dictionary of "how to seem elaborate". Some stories or scenes were interesting or funny but the way it was written was just annoying. The connections were forced and not meaningful at all. It was...okay. Barely okay.

Tony: 2 stars. "okay he thought and said "okay
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byeol
Feb 17, 2012 rated it really liked it
Pixelnische
Oct 16, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: wunschliste
Daniel
Dec 29, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Zara
Nov 09, 2012 marked it as wunschzettel  ·  review of another edition
Maria
Dec 17, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Redangel333
Feb 10, 2013 marked it as to-read
Jana
Feb 24, 2013 marked it as to-read
Ingrid
May 04, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: read-2013
Birgit
May 27, 2013 marked it as must-read  ·  review of another edition
Sindy
Jul 08, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: gifts
Literanie*
Sep 15, 2013 marked it as to-read
Michaela
Jan 05, 2014 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Elisa
Jun 25, 2014 marked it as to-read
Carol Dobson
Feb 09, 2015 is currently reading it
Zcale
Jan 09, 2016 marked it as did-not-finish  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: try-again-later
Anja
Jul 30, 2018 marked it as to-read
Jackie
Jun 07, 2019 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: bellestrik
Melena
Aug 29, 2019 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2019, x-aussortiert
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