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katchkew 's review for:
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
Arggggg I dont have anything nice to say im sorry Mr Mitchell your afterword was so nice and very well explained you seem very thoughtful.
If you have ever stood somewhere and thought about all the people in the past who have lived and walked where you stand and felt empathy for them and curiosity about their lives this will not impress you very much at all. I feel like I understand the message of the prevailing optimism of human nature as well as the thread of constant change in our societies, and that was nice to have tied together at the end but I have just literally thought about that before.
There were some very poetic and beautifully written one-off lines buried in here; "the evening was lemon-blue" was my favorite, but largly I felt like I had to drag myself through the pages and I had to fight some long blinks.
I think would have liked this much more as 6 short stories in full moving forwards or backwards in time, rather than the split, because I largely forgot what was going on by the time I made it back to the second half. Made it very hard to give an f about any of the characters or their relationships to the people in their stories.
Feeling very let down but lots of people seem to say the reread is worth it so perhaps I shelve this for a decade and see how I feel next time. Sorry Dave.
If you have ever stood somewhere and thought about all the people in the past who have lived and walked where you stand and felt empathy for them and curiosity about their lives this will not impress you very much at all. I feel like I understand the message of the prevailing optimism of human nature as well as the thread of constant change in our societies, and that was nice to have tied together at the end but I have just literally thought about that before.
There were some very poetic and beautifully written one-off lines buried in here; "the evening was lemon-blue" was my favorite, but largly I felt like I had to drag myself through the pages and I had to fight some long blinks.
I think would have liked this much more as 6 short stories in full moving forwards or backwards in time, rather than the split, because I largely forgot what was going on by the time I made it back to the second half. Made it very hard to give an f about any of the characters or their relationships to the people in their stories.
Feeling very let down but lots of people seem to say the reread is worth it so perhaps I shelve this for a decade and see how I feel next time. Sorry Dave.