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Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

Start date: November 1, 2012

Finish date: November 30, 2012

Why we're reading this: For November we will be reading the contemporary classic Cloud Atlas! Please feel free to add your though…more
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Mar 23, 2015 Whitney rated it really liked it

I really wanted to like this book. The feeling of reading this book was like riding a boomerang through multiple space-time dimensions. Each time a new section began, I wondered, "how much further into dystopia am I going now?" (And then the bad punster in my mind immediately replied, "Dystopia. Not dat-topia.") The total number of main characters is six, but I lost count several times... sea traveler Adam Ewing; composer Robert Frobisher; journalist Luisa Rey; involuntarily retired Timothy Cave ...more

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Aug 12, 2013 Carol rated it really liked it

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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, ...more

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