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Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
An entertaining but imperfect read. The six stories in this novel are impressively different in style, while retaining themes through the whole book. Some parts work better (Letters from Zedelghem was definitely my favorite of the six) and some parts did not work as well (the pidgin English in the last story was a pain to get through). The threads that tie all the stories together were carefully placed and a joy to unravel even if some of them were contrived (making fun of the birthmark gimmick in the story does not make it less of a gimmick). The philosophy of the book is not especially original, mostly a Guns Germs and Steel approach to history combined with a halfhearted new-agey approach to spirituality (perhaps the premise of reincarnations requires it).