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corinatter 's review for:
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
Revolutionary or gimmicky? Well, I’m sorry to say, David, but it’s definitely gimmick.
I had seen the film before I read the book and I loved the movie – granted, I was a bit confused, but that was okay. Yet the book is a whole different matter.
Mitchell had a clever idea; the whole idea of the book had great potential, but I think he could have been a little more subtle. I’m not dumb, see. I would have gotten that a film about an old man locked in a nursing home is a production of Tim Cavendish’s story without being explicitly told so. I think a bit of subtlety would have done wonders for this book.
Also I do think his pacing was a little off – the first parts of the stories dragged along and in the second part they suddenly got resolved in a matter of pages.
And – what is his point? That humanity is eventually going to destroy itself because of its own hunger for power? Well, yeah, that’s probably going to happen, we all see the problem, but what do you propose we do about it? This book just left me with a hopeless, bitter feeling and that is not at all something I like.
So there you go: two points for a good idea and lacking realisation.
I had seen the film before I read the book and I loved the movie – granted, I was a bit confused, but that was okay. Yet the book is a whole different matter.
Mitchell had a clever idea; the whole idea of the book had great potential, but I think he could have been a little more subtle. I’m not dumb, see. I would have gotten that a film about an old man locked in a nursing home is a production of Tim Cavendish’s story without being explicitly told so. I think a bit of subtlety would have done wonders for this book.
Also I do think his pacing was a little off – the first parts of the stories dragged along and in the second part they suddenly got resolved in a matter of pages.
And – what is his point? That humanity is eventually going to destroy itself because of its own hunger for power? Well, yeah, that’s probably going to happen, we all see the problem, but what do you propose we do about it? This book just left me with a hopeless, bitter feeling and that is not at all something I like.
So there you go: two points for a good idea and lacking realisation.