Status Updates From Cloud Atlas

Well written, interesting. A bit difficult to keep the characters straight, but that seems to be a common experience with this book. First story, story of Adam Ewing (1850, notary, traveling home to CA from Chatham Isles, befriended physician Dr. Goose) ended abruptly and book began the story of Robert Frobisher (1931, Belgium, bisexual disinherited composer).

Macht richtig Freude. Obwohl ich die Geschichte durch den Film recht gut zu kennen glaubte, bietet der Roman noch ganz andere Qualitäten, viel mehr Tiefe, subtilen Humor und sprachlichen Esprit. Hätte ich nicht gedacht, bin echt positiv überrascht.

The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish

“We-by whom I mean anyone over sixty-commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Ve-locity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second of-fence is being Everyman's memento mori.

Okay intrigued about how this is going to develop already

oh it’s getting serious

Frobisher :(

boli mnie głowa

I asked why Meronym'd never spoke this yarnin' in the Valleys.
Valleysmen’d not want to hear, she answered, that human hunger birthed the Civ’lize, but human hunger killed it too. I know it from other tribes offland what I stayed with. Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

Yay, she was prob'ly right.

Bow, ich weiß nicht…

it’s getting good ……

Hach the dystopian chapter - sehr gut und spannend und wieder ein Wechsel der Form und Struktur. Finds genial

Bin wieder maximal verwirrt

This author is GOOD

Soft DNF at 50%. Super cool, just takes more concentration than I am capable of right now :<

The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish

He made a noise like a didgeridoo at the root of his throat, “That don't grow in Marlboro Country." My head enlarged itself by magnitude of many hundreds, Alice-style, and became a multi story car park wherein dwelt a thousand and one operatic Citroëns. “My word, you can say that again," mouthed the Man Formerly known as Timothy Cavendish.

The next thing I remember…

versteh bisher nur bahnhof und viel rassismus

This may be the most interesting book I’ve ever read in my life

Kapitel drei das spannendste bis jetzt. Kapitel vier erschließt sich mir noch gar nicht

Enjoying this book but it is DENSE. Putting on a soft hold to get through an ARC then will come back to it.

Einfach so gut. Kapitel drei und die Sprache ist wieder eine ganz andere. Sehr spannend und langsam bildet sich mehr ein Bild. Muss weiter lesen

3.5 stars, this book is comprosed of 6 stories, I was captivated and giggling through out 3 of the 6. I wanted to know how these people all with a comet shaped birthmark ultimately were related. But I guess in creative writing classes, they instruct that a good writer shows not tells. So anyone want to tell me? 😉

Papa Songs GOLDEN ARCHES?!?! I’m sorry is this a MCDONALDS?!?

This central chapter is dragging, I can't wait for it to be done

This 6th story is my favorite for far

Letters from Zedelghem

People knelt in prayer, some moving their lips. Envy'em, really do. I envy God, too, privy to their secrets. Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again. Did my best to think beatific thoughts, but my mind kept running its fingers over Jocasta.

This book is insufferable.

Took getting ill and having insomnia but I'm in it now, let's goooo

Okay interesting start, was NOT what I expected, but I’m looking forward to seeing where this goes!