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I want to read this book again. Moreover, I want to read it again and annotate it, read it again. Six interlocking stories, all unique, with their own voice, yet linked to each other.
And it asks so many different questions, important questions, about how we want to live our lives, about loyalty, compassion, bravery.
It isn't an easy read. It requires you to think, to speculate on where you, where the world is heading, and to pick up on small details to make the important connections - hence the ...more
And it asks so many different questions, important questions, about how we want to live our lives, about loyalty, compassion, bravery.
It isn't an easy read. It requires you to think, to speculate on where you, where the world is heading, and to pick up on small details to make the important connections - hence the ...more
If you want to reading something different, then this is the book! Mitchell takes the reader through six different stories which the reader is only allowed to read the first part and then move on to the next story -- in this order 1 2 3 4 5 6 and then return to the books in this order 5 4 3 2 1. Personally I have to say that I enjoyed all of the stories except the dystopian one entitled An Orison of Sonmi, which made me think that Mitchell was influenced greatly by the 1973 film - Soylent Green,
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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.
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