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Old 07-27-2005, 01:17 PM
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Cloud Atlas
Has anyone else read this yet?

I posted back in December regarding this book and I haven't noticed any other Dirts commenting on it.

Personally, I think it rocked. Best read I've had in a few years easy peasy.
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Old 07-28-2005, 03:44 AM
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Re: Cloud Atlas
i hated it - thought it started off ok; but then just meandered off up its own backside - the sci-fi and thriller sections were incredibly poor - especially the sci-fi (which was interminable) - i was jumping sections there without really losing the "plot" - i was bored by the time the stories fizzled out at the end...
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Old 07-28-2005, 09:34 AM
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Re: Cloud Atlas
I had this one in the old "books you've given up on" thread. After the first couple of chapters, no less.

My gf bought it and said it was OK though, so I might dip in again.
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Old 08-02-2005, 01:59 PM
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Re: Cloud Atlas
Well, that's done.

I thought it was OK, even though novels with contrived structures usually have me stuffing my knuckles into my mouth to stem the involuntary torrent of abuse. (Remember Alex Garland's The Tesseract? GNNNNR. Bad enough to try and tell a story in the shape of a flattened cube, but to boast at the end that you did? Someone smack him into aphasia before he writes anything else!)

The worst was the Adam Ewing strand. That sucked the sweat from a dead man's balls. Actually, even mentioning The Tesseract has now tainted this book forever. Alex Garland owes me ten hours of my life back.

I could handle the dodgy sci-fi, because every other story was a bit hack - affectionate parodies maybe?

Maybe now I'll have another stab at Ghostwritten.
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