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This is definitely a book that is richer with rereading, but I still prefer his "Ghostwritten" (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...), which has significant echoes of this.
STRUCTURE
It’s often described as a matryoshka doll or a turducken, but that’s not the best analogy, imo.
Imagine six very different short books, each open at roughly the middle, then pile them up - and that is the structure of Cloud Atlas (story 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, 6, 5b, 4b, 3b, 2b, 1b). The structure is echoed in this c ...more
STRUCTURE
It’s often described as a matryoshka doll or a turducken, but that’s not the best analogy, imo.
Imagine six very different short books, each open at roughly the middle, then pile them up - and that is the structure of Cloud Atlas (story 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, 6, 5b, 4b, 3b, 2b, 1b). The structure is echoed in this c ...more
Things I liked:
I love the way each of his characters (so far at least) seem to be addressing a particular person (a personal journal in the first part and a correspondent in the second case).
He's clever in using language appropriate to the setting of each of the first three stories.
The premise: I guess there's meant to be something to connect each of the stories so far I'm intrigued by the premise and drawn along by the characters and writing so I figure that's a pretty good combo.
The ending ...more
I love the way each of his characters (so far at least) seem to be addressing a particular person (a personal journal in the first part and a correspondent in the second case).
He's clever in using language appropriate to the setting of each of the first three stories.
The premise: I guess there's meant to be something to connect each of the stories so far I'm intrigued by the premise and drawn along by the characters and writing so I figure that's a pretty good combo.
The ending ...more
I thought this novel did a good job of transitioning story lines and of telling a cohesive story even though it was composed of tremendously different plots and writing styles. That beings said, the first half of this symmetrical book was noticeably superior to the second half.
This book reminds me of reading books in the seventies that had a real moral even if they knock you over the head with it. Still love that stuff. Couldn't stop reading.
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