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Book Review of Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas
Author: David Mitchell
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 3


A good fun book, with a clever story-telling mechanism.
Six stories arranged like a sandwich inside a sandwich inside a sandwich ..., where each one finds the "story" of the character before them which ends unexpectedly, then completes in reverse order.

Of the stories themselves - they really had different "feels" to them. Some were more to my liking, and some not so much, but even so it was worth the read to get the whole tapestry.

The plot, well there are 6 plots ranging from "long ago" to "in the far distant future". I'll leave it at that. Any more details would be too much, or too little (or both).