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I LOVED Cloud Atlas. If I could, I would give it six stars. If I ever write a novel, I would want it to be like this. If I could marry a novel, it would be this one. Considering it was published nearly a decade ago, I kept asking it, "Where have I been all your life?"
Okay, now for why I loved this book so much:
There are six seemingly unrelated stories, all beautifully written in such different styles that it feels like each could have been written by a different author. Yet, they do all connect and fit together like a series of those little Russian nesting dolls. The ways in which they connect, building to a crescendo and then each wrapping up in the second half of the novel, is nothing short of genius.
Possible drawbacks, which weren't really drawbacks for me:
Each of the stories is so different that it took me a little while to get into them, particularly the first two, but once I picked up the rhythm of the narrative, I was fully immersed.
Sometimes Mitchell is a little heavy-handed with the connections between the stories, which some readers might find insulting. I, however, enjoyed the confirmation that I was right. Because I really like being right.
Okay, now for why I loved this book so much:
There are six seemingly unrelated stories, all beautifully written in such different styles that it feels like each could have been written by a different author. Yet, they do all connect and fit together like a series of those little Russian nesting dolls. The ways in which they connect, building to a crescendo and then each wrapping up in the second half of the novel, is nothing short of genius.
Possible drawbacks, which weren't really drawbacks for me:
Each of the stories is so different that it took me a little while to get into them, particularly the first two, but once I picked up the rhythm of the narrative, I was fully immersed.
Sometimes Mitchell is a little heavy-handed with the connections between the stories, which some readers might find insulting. I, however, enjoyed the confirmation that I was right. Because I really like being right.
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