Advantages: A big bold book, full of subtle meaning Disadvantages: May not appeal to some.
...I read a few ciao members' reviews a while back on Cloud Atlas and the book appealed to me so since then I've been looking in my library for this particular book. I could have bought it from Amazon but money is tight and my bookshelves are overflowing so ...
Advantages: an ambitious book Disadvantages: too ambitious
Browsing through amazon I chanced upon the novel ´Cloud Atlas´ by David Mitchell, a British author (born in Southport in 1969) hitherto unknown to me, the word ´bizarre´ in one of the critiques made me order it although the number of pages was not given a ...
Advantages: A really rich, rewarding and ambitious book Disadvantages: The concept might be a touch overdone, it has some sections that are quite hard going
When Cloud Atlas was first published, I bought the hardback and it took me about 6 weeks to read it. I ploughed through it relentlessly, and was left completely bewildered as to what it was about, what it meant, and who the hell this David Mitchell charac ...
Advantages: Wonderful use of words, intriguing style and really drew me in. Disadvantages: A bit odd and disjointed in places.
I am always pleased when a book is recommended to me by a friend. Often people think that, because I work in a library, I have mysteriously read every book in the world. Therefore, they expect me to tell them about titles and which authors to read. This ...
Advantages: One of the books of the decade. Disadvantages: Mind blowing.
...To paraphrase one of Mitchell's own characters, Cloud Atlas is a sextet of overlapping narratives. Six short stories linking the past, present and future of the human race: each one enveloping the next, like a set of Russian dolls. A bold enterprise indee ...
