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geowhaley 's review for:
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
What a wonderful novel AND a beautiful film! The day I bought this book my roommate asked if I wanted to go see the film and after a lot of internal dialogue made external I decided to see the film before reading the book and it was well worth it. The score of the film was one of the most beautiful I’ve heard in ages and it was also visually stunning.
I knew this would be a good novel because it was only short listed for the Man Booker Prize! It was nominated for and won a few other awards. I’m still convinced, in general, the runners-up on the shortlist are often better than the winners. I have read the winner that year, Alan Hollinghurt’s The Line of Beauty, and although I really enjoyed Hollinghurst’s novel it was a tome and I struggled, so this book was easier to read and I would say more enjoyable for it’s set up and it’s approachability.
One of the quotes on the cover talks about Mitchell’s effortless changing between genres within the novel and that was definitely one of the highlights. Mitchell switches between various fiction forms from historical, contemporary, science and speculative. Of the stories, The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish was my favorite. The film version was hysterical and the book was some how filled with more wit and even more entertaining.
Continue reading on my book blog at geoffwhaley.com.
I knew this would be a good novel because it was only short listed for the Man Booker Prize! It was nominated for and won a few other awards. I’m still convinced, in general, the runners-up on the shortlist are often better than the winners. I have read the winner that year, Alan Hollinghurt’s The Line of Beauty, and although I really enjoyed Hollinghurst’s novel it was a tome and I struggled, so this book was easier to read and I would say more enjoyable for it’s set up and it’s approachability.
One of the quotes on the cover talks about Mitchell’s effortless changing between genres within the novel and that was definitely one of the highlights. Mitchell switches between various fiction forms from historical, contemporary, science and speculative. Of the stories, The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish was my favorite. The film version was hysterical and the book was some how filled with more wit and even more entertaining.
Continue reading on my book blog at geoffwhaley.com.