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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell



Blurb (from the jacket):


'Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies. . .'

Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us.

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Blurb (from GoodReads):

The narrators hear their echoes in history and change their destinies in ways great and small, in a study of humanity's dangerous will to power. A reluctant voyager crosses the Pacific in 1850. A disinherited composer gatecrashes in between-wars Belgium. A vanity publisher flees gangland creditors. Others are a journalist in Governor Reagan’s California, and genetically-modified dinery server on death-row. Finally, a young Pacific Islander witnesses the nightfall of science and civilization.



My take on the book:
I want to jump straight to the point. I gave up this book mid-way.

Not even mid-way. I couldn't get past 51st page. It was by sheer forced will that I even got that far.

The language is complicated. The storyline is way too complicated. I read the story on Wikipedia and don't see the point.

Then I decided to give the movie a try, but it did no help. In fact, it further stirred my thoughts into a mess. Perhaps, this book is not my cup of tea.

I somehow started to feel Booker shortlists are selected based on the degree of story's ambiguity...

              

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Title: Cloud Atlas

Author: David Mitchell

ISBN (edition I've read): 9780340822784

Rating

Read between: 11-01-2015 to 15-01-2015

Publishers: Sceptre Paperback

Pages: 529

MRP: ₹ 399

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