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sarah_ls 's review for:
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
First and foremost - I would recommend this book to absolutely anybody. My rating is a bit low but I don't want that to discourage anyone, because this was just a cool book with a lot of things going for it.
I found it difficult to decide on a rating. When I split up the stories, I got Ewing - 2*, Frobisher - 1*, Rey - 3*, Cavendish - 5*, Neo Korea/Sonmi - 4*, Sloosha - 5*. So then I'm like, crap do I average it out? What it came down to for me is that the latter halves of the last three stories left me with the feeling of the last air in an inner tube slooooowly leaking out.
I completely loved the Matryoshka style of the story. The feeling of delayed gratification was like very slowly opening up a wonderful mystery and I loved every second of it. I loved that, as you took each step into the future, the POV in the next story was reading/viewing the prior story, and I loved, especially, the little pokes at Scots. That moment in the Cavendish story when (name removed) jumps up and yells "Are there nor trrruuue Scortsmen in tha hooossse?" had me absolutely dying of laughter. In fact the Cavendish story alone is worth reading all 500 pages of this puppy.
There's a lot of genius and creativity in this and I have no doubt that I will read it again. To say that I merely "liked" the book seems grossly unfair in some way. Unfortunately, I just couldn't give it four stars. It's a brilliant book and I'm glad I read it. It's well worth the effort of reading it. Also, I did not find it confusing but I glanced at the Wikipedia page just a bit. This may have helped.
I found it difficult to decide on a rating. When I split up the stories, I got Ewing - 2*, Frobisher - 1*, Rey - 3*, Cavendish - 5*, Neo Korea/Sonmi - 4*, Sloosha - 5*. So then I'm like, crap do I average it out? What it came down to for me is that the latter halves of the last three stories left me with the feeling of the last air in an inner tube slooooowly leaking out.
I completely loved the Matryoshka style of the story. The feeling of delayed gratification was like very slowly opening up a wonderful mystery and I loved every second of it. I loved that, as you took each step into the future, the POV in the next story was reading/viewing the prior story, and I loved, especially, the little pokes at Scots. That moment in the Cavendish story when (name removed) jumps up and yells "Are there nor trrruuue Scortsmen in tha hooossse?" had me absolutely dying of laughter. In fact the Cavendish story alone is worth reading all 500 pages of this puppy.
There's a lot of genius and creativity in this and I have no doubt that I will read it again. To say that I merely "liked" the book seems grossly unfair in some way. Unfortunately, I just couldn't give it four stars. It's a brilliant book and I'm glad I read it. It's well worth the effort of reading it. Also, I did not find it confusing but I glanced at the Wikipedia page just a bit. This may have helped.