21.10.2009 22:34

Cloud Atlas Sextet

I didn't write anything for a month. I was reading a lot. I found some good books but one of them I can't get rid of, I think about Cloud Atlas every day.

This book by David Mitchell is composed of several shorter stories, all connected by subtle links. None of them were bad, some were good but some were pure genius. Starting in the 19th century. Going trough the 20th trough a few stories and then all the way forward to the end of civilization. Story following the journalist Luisa Rey was an interesting thriller. Adventures of Timothy Cavendish had me turning pages in suspense and laughing like crazy on occasion. The story about Robert Frobisher, the composer, was beautiful, but the one about clones in the future superstate of Korea was genius.

I found a copy in the local library after failing to find an e-book in English. You should invest some time in reading it, even if you don't like it, it is undeniably an epic novel.


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