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A review by outcolder
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
5.0
this guy is dealing with a lot of the same themes as [book:the man who was thursday] but in a more thought out and clever way.
there's a lot of nietzsche in here, and some comparison of his time-repeates-itself stuff with buddhist cycles. but for all the heavy stuff, it reads like an adventure story, or rather like 6 adventure stories. at the end there's a kind of 'the moral of the story is...' but it didn't bother me at all, and actually was kind of a relief as i was scratching my head about where the author came down on the question of should we bother?
as in should we bother when we're outnumbered by vicious idiots who are leading us to destruction... over and over again.
there's a lot of nietzsche in here, and some comparison of his time-repeates-itself stuff with buddhist cycles. but for all the heavy stuff, it reads like an adventure story, or rather like 6 adventure stories. at the end there's a kind of 'the moral of the story is...' but it didn't bother me at all, and actually was kind of a relief as i was scratching my head about where the author came down on the question of should we bother?
as in should we bother when we're outnumbered by vicious idiots who are leading us to destruction... over and over again.