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Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr

Start date: May 1, 2025

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What Members Thought

Oct 04, 2021 Amy rated it liked it

I loved Anthony Doerr's previous title and couldn't wait to read his new book. Excited to start Cloud Cuckoo Land,I was surprised with the disjointed format and subject matter. Like others, I was quick to dismiss the story as I was fixated on "All the Light We Cannot See."

Due to the 5-starred reviews,, I decided to take my blinders off to separate this book from his past. While it's not my favorite novel, I can recognize its merit. In a COVID era, the feelings of isolation and dreaming of a bet ...more

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Sep 16, 2021 Karen D rated it it was amazing

Shelves: historical-fiction, dystopian, science-fiction, literary-fiction, 5-stars, adventure, depressing

This was unlike anything I have ever read. I don't even know how to provide a pithy synopsis as this is the definition of epic. It covers hundreds of years, multiple POVs, and a long-lost Greek story that plays a key role at multiple points of history. The story itself is somewhat absurd, but slowly is revealed just why it mattered so much.

This should have been hard to read. It's really long (over 600 pages) and changes POVs and timelines frequently, including different timelines of the same ch ...more

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Sep 16, 2021 Debie Orrell rated it liked it

Shelves: netgalley, b-obama-book-club

Thank you NetGalley and Scribner for an ARC of the Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. This is a sci-do novel based on several different eras. A book of Aethons is the base for all the lives. Anna is an orphan that lives with the women who embroider robes for the priests. She is always searching for something new and learns to read. Anne finds the book by Aethon and reads it to her sick sister, Maria during the siege of Constantinople. Omeir, a conscripted youth with his two oxen, are outside th ...more

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