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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
Nothing is getting my attention today, giving up on this one too.
challenging
slow-paced
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I finished it last night. This book is hard to wrap my head around. I think the big theme is "who is the 'savage,' and who is the 'civilized,' really?" Have I got that right?
Sinceramente, no me lo esperaba tan bueno.
Tengo la costumbre (mas bien es una manía injustificable) de, antes de ver una película de la que se tengan buenas críticas, tratar de leer la novela en la que está basada, si es el caso.
Normalmente, abordo estas lecturas de manera poco motivada (como he dicho antes, lo mío es una manía injustificable). Pero mira por donde, que a veces me encuentro con autenticas joyas, como la novela que acabo de leer.
El Atlas de las Nubes es un libro compuesto por seis historias, aparentemente independientes, pero que conforme la lectura va avanzando, el lector puede identificar un denominador común a todas ellas. La seis historias son altamente adictivas, situadas en distintas épocas y lugares, y con personajes de lo más variopinto. Aparte de lo bien hilados y estructurados están los relatos, lo que más me ha impresionado es el distinto uso que el autor hace del lenguaje, en función del narrador y la época en la que todo sucede. Esta manera de escribir introduce de forma pasmosa al lector en la sociedad y costumbres de la época en la que se narra cada una de las historias.
Los seis relatos me han encantado, pero por destacar alguno, me quedaría con las hilarantes andanzas de Timothy Cavendish y el futuro distópico relatado por la Sonmi-451. Los dos para enmarcar.
Lo dicho, un libro muy recomendable y , en mi caso, una agradable sorpresa.
Tengo la costumbre (mas bien es una manía injustificable) de, antes de ver una película de la que se tengan buenas críticas, tratar de leer la novela en la que está basada, si es el caso.
Normalmente, abordo estas lecturas de manera poco motivada (como he dicho antes, lo mío es una manía injustificable). Pero mira por donde, que a veces me encuentro con autenticas joyas, como la novela que acabo de leer.
El Atlas de las Nubes es un libro compuesto por seis historias, aparentemente independientes, pero que conforme la lectura va avanzando, el lector puede identificar un denominador común a todas ellas. La seis historias son altamente adictivas, situadas en distintas épocas y lugares, y con personajes de lo más variopinto. Aparte de lo bien hilados y estructurados están los relatos, lo que más me ha impresionado es el distinto uso que el autor hace del lenguaje, en función del narrador y la época en la que todo sucede. Esta manera de escribir introduce de forma pasmosa al lector en la sociedad y costumbres de la época en la que se narra cada una de las historias.
Los seis relatos me han encantado, pero por destacar alguno, me quedaría con las hilarantes andanzas de Timothy Cavendish y el futuro distópico relatado por la Sonmi-451. Los dos para enmarcar.
Lo dicho, un libro muy recomendable y , en mi caso, una agradable sorpresa.
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book was everything I hoped it would be! It's been on my TBR for quite a while. I've seen the movie multiple times, but the book somehow still puts even that excellent adaptation to shame in some respects. The nesting of the stories and how they all connect is so well thought out. One of my favorite parts of the book is indeed the plot with Robert Frobisher & Vivian Ayers. Mitchell does a stunning job of explaining the sounds of the music...not an easy thing to do. I listened to the audiobook version, and it was excellently done. Each story had it's own narrator/s, which I think really made you feel the connections and separations between the plots. It's a long book, but completely worth every minute.
This was a great book. So many different ways to explore the question of why and how humans prey on each other. It was the perfect length to convey all these ideas.
I loved all of the stories and felt lots of joy when noticing the small ways they all interconnected with each other. The change from genre to genre was immediately compelling instead of jarring and each one was written very well.
Somehow this book feels just as relevant now as it did when I was written - and I understand why it has been an inspiration for so many people who want a better world for all. Will likely be adding a physical copy of this to my library!
I loved all of the stories and felt lots of joy when noticing the small ways they all interconnected with each other. The change from genre to genre was immediately compelling instead of jarring and each one was written very well.
Somehow this book feels just as relevant now as it did when I was written - and I understand why it has been an inspiration for so many people who want a better world for all. Will likely be adding a physical copy of this to my library!
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Aug. 23rd, 2025
Dear Sixsmith,
Not sure how I ever missed this novel and film. What an original piece of literature this is. How unique and fantastical this magic trick was. Sixsmith, when David Mitchell described his inspiration for this story and confirmed my one and only intuitive link to Yukio Mishima’s Sea of Fertility (and its identical birthmark-identified reincarnatory storybase) I felt wholly vindicated and like we had shared an intimate meeting of minds.
One review of this on my copy says “How did he do it?” and even though he explains it a bit in the 20th anniversary afterword, I couldn’t help but wonder “how? How?”. I don’t know how and I don’t know where to go from here Sixsmith.
Yours,
Bean
Dear Sixsmith,
Not sure how I ever missed this novel and film. What an original piece of literature this is. How unique and fantastical this magic trick was. Sixsmith, when David Mitchell described his inspiration for this story and confirmed my one and only intuitive link to Yukio Mishima’s Sea of Fertility (and its identical birthmark-identified reincarnatory storybase) I felt wholly vindicated and like we had shared an intimate meeting of minds.
One review of this on my copy says “How did he do it?” and even though he explains it a bit in the 20th anniversary afterword, I couldn’t help but wonder “how? How?”. I don’t know how and I don’t know where to go from here Sixsmith.
Yours,
Bean