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	• Cloud Atlas: A Novel David Mitchell Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004 - 528 pages average customer review:based on 166 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Must read!

This is one of the best books I've ever read. It is a very complex book, which simply adds to its charm, since I didn't have any trouble following the storyline and interconnections that make up the novel. It is like a puzzle - you have to get well into the book to even slightly understand where it's going. But the manner in which it keeps you guessing I found absolutely intriguing. It has a very poignant, uplifting ending as well. Highly recommend it.

A Common Thread

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell was an exticing read. It grabbed you and didn't let go. I felt the need to keep reading to find the common thread and once I understood the "Sextet" it made the parts all become whole. It is a book that will stay with you for years to come.

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Reading Reincarnated

I finished this remarkable novel at the start of a long plane flight.

Then I turned from the last page of CLOUD ATLAS back to its first.

I don't usually re-read novels, but this book is that jaw-droppingly good. It certainly qualifies as the best book I've read since Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union. As this Amazon page contains analysis and plot synopsis aplenty on it, I'll simply add that this is the rare novel that should have won both literature's Man Booker prize and science fiction's Hugo award.

Wowsers.

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Challenging Read - Worth Every Second

This is a challenging but fast-paced and addictive book. Basically, it consists of six interrelated short stories, each told in a different narrative style, and each exploring, in varying contexts and on varying scales, the methods by which one group enslaves another, the oppressor's flawed justifications for so doing, and the power of individuals to overcome oppression and change the course of history. Sometimes the triumph over oppression is personal, sometimes it's far reaching, but it's always meaningful. Still, there's also a parallel theme at work here: the author seems to suggest that there will always be groups of people willing to opress others, that the fight against oppression is a never-ending duty passed on from individual to individual over the years, a duty that has a claim on us in the present no matter what progress has been made in the past. Overall this is probably the most impressive work of contemporary fiction I've read in a while, and although it took some effort to get into it, I'm extremely glad I stuck it out. Highly recommended.

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CLOUD ATLAS

I don't mean to write a review of this book. I just wanted to post my appreciation to the author for such a fine read and to recommend it to all of you readers out there who are looking for a challenging and rewarding read...
Six genres interlocked....satisfaction for all..

GREAT BOOK!

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From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta?s ?Best of Young British Novelists 2003? issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan?s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified ?dinery server? on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other?s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.

In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity?s dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.

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