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gabe. reviewed Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Review of 'Cloud Atlas' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I liked following the different stories and bouncing back and forth between them. I'm not totally sure what the thread that wove them all together was, but the individual stories kept me reading and the book as a whole was fun to read. Having seen the movie before reading the books, I had already formulated pictures of what all the characters looked like, which was probably helpful since there were many to keep track of.

Kadomi reviewed Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Review of 'Cloud Atlas' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I can start this review by saying I was blown away, what a ride this novel was! It contains six unique stories that are interconnected. Every story is set in a different period, written in a different styles, like six different novels. We start with a 19th century seafaring story set in the Pacific, move on to a letter-style story set in Belgium in the 1930s. From there we move on to a political thriller with a compelling female protagonist in the 70s, a tragicomedy of a fairly unlikeable British guy trapped in a nursing home in our era, to fully blown dystopia set in Korea, to post-apocalypse in Hawaii, and then all the way back.

Like most dystopia, ultimately a depressing read, as the interconnected strands of story show that humans are pretty much terrible, and thirst for power, greed, it destroys, until there's almost nothing left. And even …

I can start this review by saying I was blown away, what a ride this novel was! It contains six unique stories that are interconnected. Every story is set in a different period, written in a different styles, like six different novels. We start with a 19th century seafaring story set in the Pacific, move on to a letter-style story set in Belgium in the 1930s. From there we move on to a political thriller with a compelling female protagonist in the 70s, a tragicomedy of a fairly unlikeable British guy trapped in a nursing home in our era, to fully blown dystopia set in Korea, to post-apocalypse in Hawaii, and then all the way back.

Like most dystopia, ultimately a depressing read, as the interconnected strands of story show that humans are pretty much terrible, and thirst for power, greed, it destroys, until there's almost nothing left. And even then, it goes on.

Still, a wonderful novel, I loved it deeply.

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