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After seeing many, many recommendations for it on AskMe, I finally started Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. I absolutely love it--I love the switching genres, the different narrative voices, and the well-maintained sense of suspense. As I approach the end I am finding myself reading more and more ...

No, silly, he's taking your earlier idea. It's Cloud Atlas.

The last book I gave up on was David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. It's a horrible one to quit because it's very high-minded and elaborate so people assume you just couldn't get it. And I did really like the structure. I just couldn't get into any of the specific stories or their protagonists.

... to say, I'm enjoying it rather more. When I actually get to reading it, that is, in between everything else... > re Cloud Atlas, I did in fact read about half of it earlier this year, and enjoyed it too, but I had to return it to the library and didn't get it back out. I intend to return ...

I second Medellia. Cloud Atlas is even better than Ghostwritten. It's got a few of the same characters in it too so worth reading while Gostwritten is still fresh in your mind. Mitchell's other two novels are excellent too. The story set in the Japanese music store is inspired by Murakami. M ...

If you like Ghostwritten, you'll loooove Cloud Atlas. I'm laughing at your getting sucked into Jane Eyre again. I have to be careful not to mention Heart of Darkness to my hubby too often--he has read it probably ten times, and he reads so little that if he gets sucked back into it, that'll be ...

I read Cloud Atlas earlier this year and liked it a lot, Brenda. I hope you do, too, when you get around to it.

Cloud Atlas is one of my desert island books. It's very different from Black Swan Green, though.

... you so much for the welcome, arubabookwoman. I enjoyed Black Swan Green (my review will be done tonight I hope) and have Cloud Atlas on my TBR. I will keep The Wilderness in mind. Thanks for the suggestion.

... about mentioning the Ishiguro, but I found it dissatisfying - despite some lovely writing. Is number9dream sf? I know Cloud Atlas is.

... ed: Air by Geoff Ryman Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Maul by Tricia Sullivan Number9Dream Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Idlewild by Nick Sagan (Edited with thanks to iansales. Note: only 1/3 of Cloud Atlas is futuristic.)

Yes, Cloud Atlas really grew on me- at first I was a little puzzled, but as it went on I got more and more into it and couldn't wait to return to previous threads. #55 Rotes Meer by Åke Edwardson This one's been a bit of a disappointment for me. I have had this issue with this ...

... anything uncomfortable, they have a heads up to just flip ahead. What's going on with me... currently I'm almost done Cloud Atlas which has been taking a while to get through. I almost gave up on it (I really didn't like the first story), but the next story was better. I'm not sure if I ...

Hey brochettes... I didn't realise Cloud Atlas was also one of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - bonus!! I also didn't realise you liked it that much - I'm even happier! It is now my official next-to-read, and I am looking forward to it.

#127 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Fantastic book. If I had to recommend a book as a great holiday read to anyone, this would be it. One of my favourite books of the year.

... I found it hard to focus on this, and find it difficult to recall anything about these stories in retrospect. #54 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Fantastic book. If I had to recommend a book as a great holiday read to anyone, this would be it. One of my favourite books of the year.

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Original List 1-99 1 Never Let Me Go 2 Saturday 3 On Beauty 11 The Lambs of London 13 Cloud Atlas 18 What I Loved 19 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 21 Elizabeth Costello 24 Fingersmith 26 Everything is Illuminated on mount TBR 28 Kafka on ...

... the "pro" list vrs the "Reader" list. There are only have seven in common; American Genius, A Comedy Gilead Cloud Atlas The Road Austerlitz The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Middlesex

... particular order. Midnight's Children by Rushdie Vanity Fair by Thackeray The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov Cloud Atlas by Mitchell Darkness at Noon by Koestler Perfume: Story of a Murderer by Suskind The Road by McCarthy Secret River by Grenville Silas Marner by El ...

This is one of the stories in Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.

... group reads? Or maybe even group reads w/in group reads w/in group reads too: A veritable group read Chinese puzzle, a la Cloud Atlas, eh?

... Styron 2. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides ***** 10/29/09 3. Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 4. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 5. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 6. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond 7. Island at the Center of the World by Russel ...

... does that for me: smashing great writing and an ambitious, energetic storyline. David Mitchell (BLACK SWAN GREEN and CLOUD ATLAS) is another writer who comes to mind...

... with a very satisfying ending. The Line of Beauty was shortlisted alongside Toibin's The Master and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. Also longlisted that year was LT 75 book challenge current favourite Cooking with Fernet Branca.

... with a very satisfying ending. The Line of Beauty was shortlisted alongside Toibin's The Master and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. Also longlisted that year was current LT favourite Cooking with Fernet Branca.

I read Cloud Atlas & liked it a lot; the postmoderny/metafictiony stuff was entertaining but did not overwhelm the stories at the heart of the book.

... around with the site until a day or two ago. Still trying to figure out what's what here. . . I just finished reading Cloud Atlas (and several other books, all of which have completely vanished from my mind for the moment. I guess that's why I belong in the "over 50" group.). Not sure ...

Challenge dates: October 1, 2009 - October 1, 2010 Here are my categories and some preliminary titles for 2010. Might as well really ...

... Modern Classics) 10 1001 books 1. White Teeth 2. At swim two boys 3. Captain Corelli's Mandolin 4. Cloud Atlas: A Novel 5. The Inheritance of Loss 6. The Line of Beauty 7. Middlemarch 8. The Moor's Last Sigh 9. Possession: A Romance 10. A Praye ...

2000's 1. Never Let Me Go 2. Saturday 3. On Beauty 7. The Red Queen 13. Cloud Atlas I think I'm the only person in the world who didn't like this book 19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 21. Elizabeth Costello 23. Family Matters 24. Fingersmith ...

Cloud Atlas is one of my favourite books-glad that you liked it!

... going to like this one as it started out almost too juvenile, but I ended up really liking it; highly recommended 294. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - this book has been on Planet TBR for approximately forever and I finally got my hands on a copy; when I heard it compared to Calvino's I ...

I definitely need to read In Cold Blood And yes, there are certain books that just permeate LibraryThing Cloud Atlas is one of them. I'm thinking I should become aquainted with this book... Anyhoo, I enjoyed your list as well as your commentary...

... the marriages of his daughters to two Chinese brothers who live in America. This is an excellent read. Book #57 - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell This book is the story of several different characters living very different lives in different places at different times. There is an ...

Ah, new quote for today from Cloud Atlas: 'A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.' So true. I am posting to July thread too, so ignore it there if you read it here!

Ah, new quote for today from Cloud Atlas: 'A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.' So true. I am posting to the Kitchen too, so ignore it there if you read it here!

... and Clay Platforme Atonement Snow Kafka on the Shore The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Cloud Atlas 2666 The Accidental Bartleby and Co is one of my new favorite books. It's about one of your favorite things too- books! Cloud Atlas is another of ...

I am currently reading The Forgotten Beasts of Eld along with Carolyn and have picked up David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas as well.

... the Shore - Haruki Murakami ii. Wind up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami iii. Black Swan Green - David Mitchell iv. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell v. Number 9 Dream - David Mitchell vi. Ghostwritten - David Mitchell vii. After Dark - Haruki Murakami viii.Sputnik Sweetheart - Har ...

Just listed trade paperbacks of these wish-listed titles... -The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - mooched -Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell -The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield -The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow - mooched -A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by ...

#48: I have Mitchell's Cloud Atlas home from the library now to read. I will have to look for number9dream after I finish it. #49: I already have that one on my bedside table to read some time in the next century or 2.

#21 torontoc I like David Mitchell. His book Cloud Atlas was one of my favorites several years ago. If you haven't read that one I highly recommend it. I haven't read number9dream but have it on my TBR list.

It is probably a bit modern but I'd love to see Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - what they could do with illustrations would fascinate me. And the Rabbit series by Updike I would love to see as well as the completion of the Fairy series. But I have to say most of all I like the surprises that Folio ...

... Orange July, so went ahead and read alternate Black Swan Green, which I really did have on my TBR list... not as good as Cloud Atlas (read maybe 2 yrs ago, or Number9dream - read even longer ago).

... on Babbling Books: http://onlinebookclub.myfreeforum.org/about3408.html I thought it was alright, but nowhere near Cloud Atlas which I read in 2007 (?) ***BSG was on the Costa 2006 Shortlist - The Tenderness of Wolves won ! I'm now reading Wizard and Glass. --- I'm going on ...

If you get a chance, it might be worth reading Mitchell's Ghostwritten before continuing with Cloud Atlas as it has some of the backstory for Cloud Atlas in it.

I must give Cloud Atlas another go. I tried to read it when I wasn't feeling smart. Just now cute books about penguins are about all I can handle. I finished Wake in Fright over the weekend. You know it's all going to end in tears, but it is so well done! I'm tossing up between The Safe House, ...

... like that, or whether he was just taking the mickey . . . I rather suspect the latter in this case. I really loved Cloud Atlas and the way the stories inter-weaved across the world and through time. Brilliant. And hey, that's hilarious wookiebender, that you thought you had a misbound ...

... I loved the series. Although, it is such a distant memory, I would never have recalled it without you mentioning it. Cloud Atlas is still sitting on my TBR pile saying "Read me, Read me" I have a few others tho' I've decided to read first. Freelunch, it will be really interesting to ...

... run out and get them all for your niece now!) If on a Winter's Night appealed to me particularly because I'd just read Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell which is another story-within-story, but I thought Cloud Atlas had been misbound and was about to take it back to the shop and get a new copy ...

Yes, I still want to read Cloud Atlas.

... was an excellent listen. I also think he may be interested in The Historian, some of Michael Chabon's books, Cloud Atlas, or Everything is Illuminated - all of which have been great to listen to.

... of catching up on threads I've got to do! One reason is I've been reading but not finishing... I'd got halfway through Cloud Atlas when I had to return it to the library. Hmph. Anyway, I've finished one at last, which I'll do another post on.

#7 I wasn't too impressed by David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. The link between the narratives wasn't strong enough. I have Houellebecq's Atomised on my TBR.

I found the first half of Cloud Atlas interesting but when in the second half it returned to the dystopian theme I started to lose heart and gave up. Clever but.....

#91 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell This book is very very good - except where it isn't! David Mitchell is an excellent writer - one of the best I can think of. There is humour and interest, and plenty of stuff to chew on and consider. I love his use of metaphor in description. I was giggling out ...

#91 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell This book is very very good - except where it isn't! David Mitchell is an excellent writer - one of the best I can think of. There is humour and interest, and plenty of stuff to chew on and consider. I love his use of metaphor in description. I was giggling out ...

My list of books to look at/buy is now in my library under, appropriately enough, Wish List.

... Tracy Snow Falling on Cedars by Guterson, David A Thousand Acres by Smiley, Jane Possession by Byatt, A.S. Cloud Atlas by Mitchell, David I read The Blind Assassin which was pretty good. My choice for this month will be One Hundred Years of Solitude as it's been on my TBR ...

... ike> +21/ 2. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote +22/ 3. The Sea, John Banville +23/ 4. Wild Swans, +24/ 5. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende +25/ 6. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis I only managed 6 off the list, but I ...

... or Atwood's The Blind Assassin?--book w/in book w/in book w/in book; or David Mitchell's masterpiece, Cloud Atlas? However, the direction I really think we should go, especially considering we have an in-house expert already with us along for the ride who is in ...

... the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

... – he has a very distinct style, A Wild Sheep Chase would be good to try, if you like more realistic - Norwegian Wood Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - stories in stories in stories Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector - about a narrator creating a character W.G. Sebald - seemingly ...

Cloud Atlas was terrible. Poor story, by the numbers scifi, bad writing. Can't be worse than that, especially if you're hoping for a good read. Also disliked The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. That was a mystery? The mystery is why people liked it. It's a dog thing?

... Pynchon (3.19) 5. The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball (3.13) 4. The Fall by Albert Camus (3.11) 3. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (1.26) 2. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (1.20) 1. Hairstyles of The Damned by Joe Meno (1.12)

*facepalm* Cloud Atlas was about slavery? Damn. How did I miss that? Except perhaps the whole didn't equal the sum of the parts. And the sf was bloody clumsily done. Come on, no one talks like Sonmi did in her "orison".

... subjective standards applied to literature all you want, but that doesn't make them actually objective. (I haven't read Cloud Atlas, but it is in my giant TBR pile). And finally, being a critic for Interzone or any other outlet doesn't give your arguments more weight. Your arguments ...

... whether you or I like a particular literary sf work... those are two entirely different matters. I just recently finished Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2004, so it's clearly a literary novel. It also includes a number of sf tropes - a post-apocalypse ...

Finished Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. I expected to like this more than I did. The sf was horribly clumsy, almost a text-book case of "mainstream writer reinventing ancient sf trope", and the tenuous link between the six embedded stories didn't actually add up to a plot. For all its cleverness, ...

... Thomas Mann Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne Ada by Vladimir Nabokov The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

... wrong - and often dumb - decision, quick montage showing how their life went as a result of that decision... Next up, Cloud Atlas. Hopefully, its well-written prose will calm me down so I don't go postal on the next person who tries to claim Asimov was a good writer...

... 1001 books a lot, if any of them are of interest to you for your next book: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Cloud Atlas At Swim, Two Boys

... I have The book Thief and after your comments and all the others here I will have to read it soon. I really enjoyed Cloud Atlas, even though it didn't look like the kind of book I'd usually pick up. The bright pink cover with the cloud didn't help! Squeaky, I read All Quiet ...

I read Cloud Atlas a few years ago. I can't remember what made pick it up, but I had no idea about the format of the novel and it threw me for a loop. Afterward I wanted to read, Number9dream. I haven't read it yet, it's in a long line of wishlist reading.

>141: I have been so in awe of David Mitchell since I read Cloud Atlas last year that I have been reluctant to try Black Swan Green for fear of disappointment!

... think you can match that "first love" feeling/attachment to an author. What's funny (to me anyway) is that I actually had Cloud Atlas on my list as the David Mitchell book to read, but couldn't find a used copy of it, so ended up getting Black Swan Green instead. Just noticed that ...

I liked Cloud Atlas but haven't read Black Swan Green yet. I've just read some reviews and think the main character is nearly the same age as me - I was 11 when the Falklands War happened. (The only thing I remember about it was that "Six Months in a Leaky Boat", a fantastic song by one of ...

#52: abw, I have not read Cloud Atlas so I cannot compare. I really have no expectations from Black Swan Green other than a good read.

#49--Stasia--Black Swan Green is a very good book, but be forewarned--it is NOTHING like Cloud Atlas, if that is what you are expecting.

... to tackle David Mitchell's BLACK SWAN GREEN next. Sam finished BLACK SWAN GREEN and immediately dove into Mitchell's CLOUD ATLAS. Monsieur Mitchell will soon have his most devoted 13-year old fan. And to think I was reading Companion Library books and LUCIFER'S HAMMER at their age...

i recall Cloud Atlas being more fantasy than SF, but it was a while ago that i checked it out from the library.

I think Mitchell's only sf is Cloud Atlas. I have it; I've not read it yet.

... it's just one of many literary styles incorporated in the book. You've convinced me to give it a second go. I won't list Cloud Atlas on BookMooch just yet. Thanks!

Re 39 and 40--Re Cloud Atlas You could probably get by with just skimming the first chapter. But once you get into the book you'll want to go back to reread it. Part of the experience of the book is that each part/chapter is written in a different literary style. It just so happens that the ...

I really like what I've heard about Cloud Atlas, but I can't seem to get past the first few pages. It just doesn't seem very interesting. The writing seems thick and overly detailed. I'm disappointed, because I was looking forward to reading a 'puzzle book'. Does it get any better?

I loved Cloud Atlas! It was one of my favourite books a year ago. Very interesting plot that travels through time and then back again, solving various puzzles that are presented in the interlocking chapters. You are in for a treat when you read it.

#34: Thanks for the input on the Mitchell book, Cyrel. I am trying to track down copies of both it and Cloud Atlas to read. Have you read Cloud Atlas yet, and if so, what did you think of it?

... it fizzled ... and I too loved the beginning. Cats talking, especially with such acumen, is just such a happy thing :) Cloud Atlas has been purchased and is in the top 10 of the TBR pile. I'm glad so many people here liked it! I cannot wait. Overall, I did like Vernon God Little (new ...

FlossieT has perfectly described the difference between Black Swan Green and Cloud Atlas. Black Swan Green is a straight-forward coming of age novel, and Cloud Atlas is what I call a "puzzle book." I much preferred Cloud Atlas--I thought it was amazing how everything fit together in the ...

>19: butting in on David Mitchell, yes, very different style: Cloud Atlas is much more 'literary' in its ambitions, in that it has a very deliberate structure; it's almost like a collection of linked stories, but the stories are nested inside one another like matryoshka, and the characters have ...

... thus far has been Some Tame Gazelle, which I enjoyed. I will definitely add Quartet in Autumn to the Continent. Cloud Atlas has already been on the Continent for a while, but my local library does not have it and I have not tracked down another copy as of yet. I eventually will get ...

... very different from his other books. Whether you like it or not, you should definitely give his other books a try, esp. Cloud Atlas.

... of to my attention. I don't have an arts background - I'm an IT techo. I would never have read books like Oroonoko or Cloud Atlas or If this is a Man if not for this book. I'm sure that they are not the best 1283 books out there, but its a fantastic list for someone like me who ...

... knowledge to save many lives. 26. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell. This is the first book by Mitchell.( I loved his Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green.) The stories of nine characters from around the world are told and then linked in unlikely ways. The writing is first rate. The end does ...

... knowledge to save many lives. 26. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell. This is the first book by Mitchell.( I loved his Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green.) The stories of nine characters from around the world are told and then linked in unlikely ways. The writing is first rate. The end does ...

... that it just should be there. And I never found it predictable, so I'm absolutely going to read more by Murakami. Cloud atlas is also on my TBR list. I've read Number9dream and although that was kind of a strange book, it makes me want to read more by David Mitchell.

Cloud Atlas and any book by Murakami would be my "desert island" book choices. KimB I hope you enjoy The Wind-up Bird Chronicle it has the most amazing section of descriptive prose that still haunts me. Without giving away any spoilers, watch out for the soldier's story.

... like a much more intense and longer work then Kafka, I'm a little concerned that I might not have the stamina for it ;-) Cloud Atlas was given to me last year by a very dear LT friend, I cant wait to get to it. I'll definately be reading it this year. I've noticed quite a few of the older ...

Just finished Cloud Atlas and it floored me.Yowza.

... Foucault's Pendulum (you've gotta be kidding-- I'm not wading through all that name-dropping and pseudo-intellectualism) Cloud Atlas (didn't like the writing style) The Alchemist (overly contrived and cliche) Me Talk Pretty One Day (the main character wasn't charming or funny or ...

... but other books I just chuck (or put up on BookMooch). Recent rejects are Foucault's Pendulum, The Road, and Cloud Atlas. I've set aside Beloved because I think I might re-read it again, but the first few pages was just not that interesting. We'll see. I have a lot of books on ...

... which has since fallen into the murky depths of my memory never to return). Also Walking on Glass by Iain Banks. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is also cool, and *bits* of it are definitely Sci-Fi. Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne HAS to be in there. I see ...

I really enjoyed Cloud Atlas also Jude the Obscure was memorable.

One week into February I have read: 18. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 509 pp. This book had been on my TBR list for over a year, I knew it was going to be challenging so kept putting it off. Glad I could mark it off, wasn’t my cup of tea. *** 19. Fingersmith by Sarah Wa ...

Last year I mistakenly read Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan instead of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (doh!) The Callanan book was beautiful, so no regrets. But now I'm reading the Mitchell one and whoa nellie what an interesting read it is...

... with letters (although that does kind of exclude my Japanese side....hmmm) Inspiration has just struck. I would take Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. It's intelligent, interesting and beautiful - just like me ;) - and it uses a selection of different styles and settings and interweaves them ...

... The Sea John Banville 6. The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst 7. Small Island Andrea Levy 8. Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 9. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Mark Haddon 10. Vernon God Little DBC Pierre 11. The Namesake Jh ...

... by Mark Haddon, 2003 311. *The Colour by Rose Tremain, 2007 312. *Drop City by T.C. Boyle, 2006 313. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, 2005 314. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, 2005 315. *On Beauty by Zadie Smith, 2005 316 *Saturday by Ian McEwan, 200 ...

I am on a boat from Australia going to US in Cloud Atlas

Whoa, #28 that was some amazing interview and the interviewer compared it to Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. That is some stamp of approval. I'll definitely check it out. Thanks

... the reviews. I'm very interested in The Secret Scripture based on your review. I'll be interested in your thoughts on Cloud Atlas, one of my favorite books.

>13, I just bought Cloud Atlas but haven't been able to get The Idea of Perfection from either my bookstore or the library. Found The Secret River--is that a worth substitution or should I wait? P.S. Did you succumb to P. Krugman? Don't you love that someone whose ideas you want ...

... Zookeeper's War by Steven Conte * The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser * White Tiger by Aravind Adiga * Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell * Pere Gonot by Honore de Balzac ( Group Read - Literature) Wish List: * The Road by Cormac McCarthy * The Uncommon Read ...

Both Cloud Atlas and The Book Thief made my list of top 5 books of 2008. It is interesting that The Book Thief is classified as adult in Europe. It seemed to me that it was written for teenagers, though with a great deal of appeal for adults, and I gave it to 2 of the teenagers ...

... Swan Green is excellent, and far more accessible than the other David Mitchell books I've read (Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas) - very highly recommended, particularly to anyone who was a teenager in the early 80's. next up for me: Adam Stemple's Steward Of Song, sequel to Singer ...

David Mitchell (author of Cloud Atlas) Markus Zusak Barbara Kingsolver

... Free Men - Terry Pratchett The Stranger - Albert Camus Amerika - Franz Kafka Den of Thieves - James B. Stewart Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - Marcel Proust

... Glass by Lewis Carroll 6. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 7. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 8. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 9. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 10.Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll 11.The Black Dahlia by James E ...

...just one or two then! how disappointing re Cloud Atlas! thanks!

... today. full list of LT authors An FYI: The author of Cloud Atlas is not the same author who is listed as the number one LT author. ------------------ Addendum: As of last month (I haven't updated the list for this ...

... I make profound observations like "I thought it was really good"! Your list of books to read looks great. I loved Cloud Atlas and The Idea of Perfection. And I'm trying not to succumb to temptation by buying the new Paul Krugman. I need to plough through some of the unread books I ...

... Adams The Return of Merlin, Deepak Chopra One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell The Sexiest Man Alive A Biography of Warren Beatty, Ellis Amburn The Ancient One, T.A. Barron Ex-Libris, Ross King The Amazing ...

Have just finished reading Cloud Atlas and I am not sure what to think. It's a book with six diverse novellas with some relation to eachother – there is a story set in the 1800's, one set in the 1930's, one in the 1970's, one modern fiction story, one dystopian SF story, and one post-apocalyptic ...

#292 I'm not Shrike58, but from my reading of "classic SF" (there are some books called classics that do not deserve that title, but that's another thread) far-future SF can feel dated for a variety of reasons - outdated technologies (tapes or punch-card computers), outdated social beliefs (racis ...

... Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

#121: Rachael, I still have not read Cloud Atlas - and yes, it does reside on Continent TBR - so I am not really sure what you mean. I bought a copy of Specimen Days over the internet, so I will give it a try and if I do not like it, pass it along. I have not read a lot either by or about Whi ...

Stasia, don't know how you feel about Whitman but lots of him.... slightly unsettling. It has that Cloud Atlas thing of interlinked stories across different historical timeframes.

... (4/?/09) 2. American Rust - Phillip Meyer An ER book! (3/04/09) 3. The Scarlet Feather - Maeve Binchy (1/14/09) 4. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 5. 6. Property - Valerie Martin (4/10/09) 7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer (1/04/09) 8. The Eleg ...

My 999 categories for now; they may (probably will) change.* And is it cheating to move a book from one category to another during the year? 'Cas I'll probably be a cheater! Will change titles to black type, and date, when finished. 1. Books Discovered on 'bonnie-runs' to my Favorite Indep ...

... abysmal). Sorry you didn't dig BLACK SWAN GREEN. I liked the voice and when you compare it to NUMBER 9 DREAM and CLOUD ATLAS, one finds a range in Mitchell's work that's absolutely mind-blowing.

I LOVED CLOUD ATLAS--I'm a David Mitchell fan. BLACK SWAN GREEN, though completely different in structure and voice, is equally brilliant. And ya can never go wrong with Mr. Crowley...

I tried Cloud Atlas recently, and although I could see it would probably be worth the effort - because he's clearly a writer, not just a novelist - I gave up after the first section. I just don't have time for this, I told myself. Maybe Christmas is the time. Having said that, I'm intrigued ...

... have in-laws around for most of it. Now's the chance to finally tackle LITTLE, BIG by John Crowley or David Mitchell's CLOUD ATLAS. Or...what else is beckoning you from the "To Be Read" pile? Do tell.

The books I've completed for my 50-Books Challenge are listed first in the order read. The remaining books include: Books I've bought and haven't read yet, some books I want to finish, plus books recommended by other LT-ers. I was going to wait until Jan. 1st to begin, but I got snowed in, so m ...

... "> Some options: - Wolkenatlas / Cloud atlas - David Mitchell - Camouflage - Paul Goeken - De oversteek - Paul Goeken - Stille nacht / Visions of Sugar Plums Janet Evanovich

... novels off my "recent best" list. This year it's The Remains of the Day-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Famished Road-Ben Okri, Cloud Atlas-David Mitchell, Plowing the Dark-Richard Powers, and The French Lieutenant's Woman-John Fowles. I don't usually buy my father a book, but this year I did. ...

... in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - probably mis-categorized 8 - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks 5 - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (6 minus one UN-nudge) 3 - The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing 3 - The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa 2 - T ...

... Chameleons about 10 days ago and have also noticed that it's been getting great press and word-of-mouth. More nudges for Cloud Atlas from torontoc and Booksloth, but interestingly this is also one of the only books to receive an UN-nudge... What can it mean? If Alice wins, which it might, in ...

these mooches went to new exciting places yesterday Police at the Funeral wihtin the UK Cloud Atlas, The Black Pharoah, and The Forgotten Garden to Canada and A Thousand Splendid Suns to Australia.

... I'm tempted by The Grass Is Singing (and I'd love to chat about it when you've done - if you do), Year of Wonders, Cloud Atlas, Alice, Emma and Dorian Gray. Even of the others I have read that don't make the nudge pile, none is so bad as to be non-nudged. In the end I'm going to ...

... big nudge each for: The Grass is Singing (and I'd love to chat about it when you're done, if you do), Year of Wonders, Cloud Atlas, Alice in Wonderland, Emma and Dorian Gray. After lots of ooohing and aaahing I'm going to go for Cloud Atlas and Dorian Gray. Even of the ones I'v ...

... course I have to nudge The life and opinions of the tomcat Murr!!!!!!!!! , and from the other pile I would also recommend Cloud Atlas.

I loved Cloud Atlas - it was one of my favourite books last year!

Cloud Atlas has an unusual structure, but I persisted, and loved it. I also loved The Picture of Dorian Gray and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

cocoafiend (great name), I have to nudge Cloud Atlas. Beautiful book, and I really loved the way he tied the threads together.

I really liked Cloud Atlas and will nudge that. It sat on my shelves for ages because the bright pink cover was really ugly (how's that for a daft reason to leave a book alone?).

... in Wonderland for me, it's a book I love to return to every once in a while. I'm going to give a big un-nudge for Cloud Atlas, didn't like it and couldn't see why it was so popular.

... then the election fiasco increased tensions there and my father said it was a bad idea. I have had both Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell recommended to me and just haven't gotten round to them yet. The Umberto Eco intrigued me, I have to confess, because it included so ...

... once Rhodesia and now is the poor, affllicted country of Zimbabwe. I can't quite believe that no one has yet mentioned Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. An inventive book with a myriad of narrators linked by one thread, this book made a huge splash a few years back. Talking of inventive Ali ...

... Nation by George Saunders Tomorrow by Graham Swift The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Classics: Emma by ...

... influenced by Jean Rhys who wrote Wide Sargasso Sea- the book I hated last month. What a coincidence! Also completed Cloud Atlas which was beautiful and haunting.

... influenced by Jean Rhys who wrote Wide Sargasso Sea- the book I hated last month. What a coincidence! Also completed Cloud Atlas which was beautiful and haunting.

... influenced by Jean Rhys who wrote Wide Sargasso Sea- the book I hated last month. What a coincidence! Also completed Cloud Atlas which was beautiful and haunting.

... influenced by Jean Rhys who wrote Wide Sargasso Sea- the book I hated last month. What a coincidence! Also completed Cloud Atlas which was beautiful and haunting.

... influenced by Jean Rhys who wrote Wide Sargasso Sea- the book I hated last month. What a coincidence! Also completed Cloud Atlas which was beautiful and haunting.

UK Angel for Canada please and thank you for Cloud Atlas from lfbtdg (United Kingdom) Userid: lfbtdg http://www.bookmooch.com/m/detail/0340822783

... people start books thinking in advance that they won't like them ... however, I had that happen relatively recently with Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell ... it was one of those books that I felt I "should" read, just because of all the hype it had gotten, but looking at the blurbs for it ...

... by Malcolm Pryce Mobius Dick by Andrew Crumey Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde The Flood by Maggie Gee Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Clear Water by Will Ashon Specimen Days by M ...

... (e.g., A Handmaid's Tale, The Road). Still others could be seen as SF or not, depending on your point of view (e.g., Cloud Atlas, Being Invisible). And on the fringes of this category, spanning the remaining gap to completely mainstream fiction, lie writers whose work might not be ...

... Christie 8.The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith 9.The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl Science Fiction 1. Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan 2. Time Machine 3. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 4. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 5. 1984 by George Orwell 6. Animal Farm ...

... ami The Famished Road by Ben Okri If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino Straight Man by Richard Russo Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell I'm quite certain that In Search of Lost Time will join the list, when I've finished.

... by Malcolm Pryce Mobius Dick by Andrew Crumey Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde The Flood by Maggie Gee Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Clear Water by Will Ashon Specimen Days by M ...

... Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson The Ice People, Maggie Gee The Road, Cormac McCarthy anything by Thomas Pynchon Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell Resistance, Owen Sheers

#6 - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell In the first half of the book, I was frustrated at the structure as stories were left hanging and I thought I was in some sort of Delillo novel where nothing would ever be resolved. Of course, the second half of the novel comes back to all those stories ...

... Reads the Newspaper 7. Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics 8. unselected Recommendations / Gifts 1. Cloud Atlas 2. Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky 3. The Master and Margarita 4. Waiting 5. For Whom The Bell Tolls 6. Moby Dick 7. A Heartbreaking Work ...

... a The Red Queen The Plot Against America The Master Vanishing Point The Lambs of London Dining on Stones Cloud Atlas Drop City The Colour Thursbitch The Light of Day What I Loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Islands Elizabeth Costello ...

It's not something like Cloud Atlas is it? I just know I'm going to go 'Doh!' when someone gets this.....

ivyd: I'll definitely check those out, thanks! I think my dad has a copy of Dune, so I'll call him up. Cloud Atlas looks good, so I'll look for it on my next trip to the library.

... Butler A few extras that I highly recommend: Hellspark : Janet Kagan Herland : Charlotte Perkins Gilman Cloud Atlas : David Mitchell The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde : Robert Louis Stevenson Orlando Furioso : Ludovico Ariosto HaMasa HaShelishi shel Aldebaran ...

... & he keeps giving/loaning me books that I have really enjoyed. Dune by Frank Herbert is my favorite, I think, though Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is absolutely amazing -- it's sci fi, but a lot more, too.

VIII. Science Fiction 1. World War Z 2. Watchmen 3. Dune 4. Cloud Atlas 5. Gun, With Occasional Music 6. Jenna Starborn 7. Out of the Silent Planet 8. Ender's Game This will definitely ...

... Harrison * Scar, China Mieville * The Road, Cormac McCarthy * The End of Mr. Y, Scarlett Thomas * Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell * Tales of the Dying Earth, Jack Vance * Dahlgren, Samuel Delany * Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke * Consider Phleba ...

... tensions, school friends and foes. The voice of a thirteen year old is captured with great truthfulness. Mitchell wrote Cloud Atlas- one of my favourite books that I read last year.

I got books for my birthday from my parents: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro Can't wait to read them all!

... top, and then I end up delaying. (Oh well, sooner or later...) No particular order: Straight Man by Richard Russo Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami The Feast of Love by Charles Bax ...

October Sky (a/k/a Rocket Boys) by Homer Hickam Cloud Atlas Pigs in Heaven Night of Rain and Stars Red Sky at MOrning

... decadent. I've never run across this word before. Suddenly, it's in three different books that I read this summer: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Dust by Martha Grimes (I can't remember the other one!)

... 2. Disgrace J M Coetzee (Booker Prize 1999) 3. The Gathering Anne Enright (Booker Prize 2007) 4. Cloud Atlas David Mitchell (Booking 2004) 5. The Shipping News Anne Proulx (Pulitzer Prize 1994) 6. The Road Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer Prize 2007) 7. The R ...

... of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngochie Adichie Rain Storm by Barry Eisler A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

... to give you all a head's up, I've posted some new books to the inventory, one or two are quite wishlisted ... Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams Bi ...

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

... fairly long and definitely slow reading, plus my daughter is home from overseas (a welcome alternative from reading). Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is a truly amazing book. I've never read anything quite like it. Part sci fi, part fantasy, part mystery, part historical fiction, and ...

#70: Brings to mind David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. One thing I am still not clear on, even after extensive Googling: how is this age banding determined? Vocabulary, or content, or both?

... more of a filler book than anything else but still wonderful. My head was buzzing with little facts for days afterward. Cloud Atlas I'm not usually a huge fan of short stories but this followed an unusual formula that made it good to the last page. American Gods I had been putting off ...

... Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003) 68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006) 69. Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992) 70. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004) 71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman (1997) 72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon ...

I absolutely loved Cloud Atlas. I recommend it to people all the time. Poisonwood Bible is also excellent. Finished Unaccustomed Earth - why are some people so opposed to any hint of a happy ending? Even in real life, sometimes things work out okay. Listening to Another Thing to Fall ...

Finally finished Cloud Atlas. Excellent book and I highy reccomend it. Now I'm embarking on The Poisonwood Bible

I finished Cloud Atlas and have started The Poisonwood Bible

Specimen Days Only Revolutions House of Leaves Raw Shark Texts This is Not a Novel Cloud Atlas People of Paper Book of Portraiture

I just finished Dining on Stones and I am now moving on to Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

I just finished Dining on Stones this evening, so now onto Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. After that I have The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver which I have been meaning to read for years.

June 31. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

... prose style may not suit everyone, though. As has already been mentioned around here many times, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (of which only portions are SF). I'm convinced that there's no prose style the man can't pull off. Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of ...

... for me in Eliot’s Middlemarch, for example, but became simply a collection of interlinked stories in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas). Troyanovs use of this structure is better than some, but not as seamless as one might wish. I think the reason it may have worked less in my view was that ...

... Child, which I think was my favorite since the 1st book (Bootlegger's Daughter) I am, however, about halfway through Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, and I'm suspecting that it may end up on my list of top reads for the year.

... swing. The Story of Lucy Gault, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Peace Like a River, Prodigal Summer, Timbuktu, Cloud Atlas, Freddy and Fredericka, and The Raw Shark Texts. Do you think he'll notice? As if that wasn't enough, I hit the library on the way home for Beginner's G ...

We have done that one, and it's Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. This one's probably fairly easy, but I like it and am going to use it anyways: "The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, ...

... Half of a Yellow Sun, & Mrs. Dalloway. I agree with all your comments about these books too. I also have Orlando, Cloud Atlas & Wide Sargasso Sea in my TBR pile. I'll have to keep an eye on your library to see what you like and what you're reading next.

... so these followed me home: Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell

>6: I read Ghostwritten, absolutely loved it and went out and bought Cloud Atlas. For some reason I haven't read it yet, but I really, really want to read it this year! ;-)

... are: War and Peace Middlemarch Northanger Abbey Naomi Novik's Temeraire series My Cormac McCarthy books Cloud Atlas Stephen King's Dark Tower series Der Zauberberg House of Leaves Paradise Lost My three H.P. Lovecraft omnibuses No reasons.. just because I ...

... 8 "2666" Roberto Bolaño 2666 9 Den skjønne linje Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty 10 Skyatlas David Mitchell Cloud Atlas 11 Berlinerpopplene Anne B. Ragde 12 "Ansiktet ditt i morgen" Javier Marías Tu rostro mañana 13 Hvitt på svart Ruben Gallego Beloje na tsjernom ...

dreamlikecheese, Cloud Atlas has also been named before (March 28). Do you want to suggest another?

I've read that! It's one of my all time favourite books. How about...Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

... (at least, you can if you look at the shortlists rather than the winners). Both Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood and Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell have both sci-fi and dystopian elements. hazelk> The reason it touchstoned Terry Pratchett is that he also wrote a book called Night Watch. ...

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell has multiple time lines. It starts in one era and setting and moves through past to present to future and back again. This book kept me reading far into the night and was one of the first so-called "post-modern" novels that I really have liked. I highly ...

... - One who is employed to take dictation or to copy manuscript. (American Heritage Dictionary) This word was used in Cloud Atlas. I find it odd that I read this over a year ago and yet this is the "new word" that immediately came to mind when I read this topic!

The ends of both Cloud Atlas and Foucault's Pendulum are in sight. Not sure what I'll read next.

Thanks beeg, it is on my list now. 38. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell I always get a bit scared starting books which have been praised as highly as this one. I approach them hoping that they will live up to their hype; sometimes I am disappointed and sometimes I wonder why I didn't read ...

Have read Sputnik Sweetheart, what about Cloud Atlas?

I am somewhere in Cloud Atlas - perhaps it is Hawaii at the moment? But I am not too sure.

So, I can finally post here again because I am reading Cloud Atlas. I haven't been able to cross any of this list for quite a while! Only 50 pages in, and I'm hoping it will get better. So many people rate this book so highly, I have very high expectations.

I've begun Cloud Atlas today.

... (and I'm halfway through Huck Finn at the moment too). Enjoyable though and not a mid life crisis! I went out and bought Cloud Atlas when I was 100 pages in, and I reckon I'll be reading his other work now, too. Its made me think a lot about choices in life (and in fiction). I'm also ...

... FINISHED 2. Disgrace FINISHED 3. The black dahlia FINISHED 4. The virgin suicides 5. Kafka on the shore 6. Cloud Atlas 7. American psycho 8. Never let me go

... Lewycka which was pretty good. I finished Ghostwritten by David Mitchell which was quite good, but not as good as Cloud Atlas and I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy which was fine, good even, but not my cup of tea. I've now started The Ministry of Special Cases by ...

... Lewycka which was pretty good. I finished Ghostwritten by David Mitchell which was quite good, but not as good as Cloud Atlas and I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy which was fine, good even, but not my cup of tea. I've now started The Ministry of Special Cases by ...

... the old family homestead. Two hours in the car allowed me to make serious progress with my audiobook of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. I may go to an art gallery somewhere in central London tomorrow, but I haven't decided which one - there are a lot of good exhibitions on at the moment. O ...

... The Elephant Vanishes. I listen to unabridged audiobooks and have reached disc 10 of 18 in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas The smallest room has Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn, a collection of his TV criticism from The Guardian Guide, in it.

How about Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - time frame runs from 19thC (as far as I can remember) to some time in the far distant future.

David Mitchell does a good job of building novels (Cloud Atlas, Ghostwritten with multiple stories where the characters are (slightly) interconnected. Are there other authors that write books like this (whether the connection is weak or strong)?

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

... at the moment. I'm just over halfway through Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, my audiobook is David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and, I've started reading the copy of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw I acquired whilst in Rome. My short story collection is The Elephant Vanishes ...

I'm midway through the 3rd of 18 discs of an unabridged reading of Cloud Atlas, with a different reader for each of its sections.

... I've previously read by Henry James, am finding this reasonably tolerable. Now I'm back at work, I'm listening to Cloud Atlas on audiobook. These are books 132, 133 and 134 for me off the list.

... last year of 64 books, only A Thousand Splendid Suns, Water for Elephants, and The Road). I'm currently waiting for Cloud Atlas from my son-in-law, The Time Traveler's Wife from my daughter, and 2 Margaret Maron books that I have on order. In the meantime, I picked up Luke's Que ...

#62 dreamlikecheese I'll let you know how I go with Cloud Atlas. Coetzee is one of my favourite authors but I wasn't that impressed with Elizabeth Costello. #63 strandbooks I generally enjoy and appreciate books like The Remains of the Day. But somehow, and I'm not sure why, it just ...

I finished Cloud Atlas a few days ago and I loved it. I've now decided to track all his other stuff to read as well. It took a little while to get into, but the way in which he weaves the 6 seemingly unconnected stories together is fantastic. I hope you enjoy it too!

Have to agree about The Life of Pi. Just finished The Remains of the Day which didn't really do it for me. Hoping Cloud Atlas - which I'll start reading soon is better.

More from the library First Among Sequels Stardust Cloud Atlas

It's Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell and you're right, it should have won.

cloud atlas I believe got on to the Nebula final ballot as the jury addition. And the other SF award it was up for (Arthur C. Clarke) was also jury selected. For those that don't know there are two ways to get on the final ballot. 1) get sufficient nominations from memebers in the twelve ...

I just finished Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell this morning, and I bought a copy of The Plot Against America by Philip Roth yesterday so I'll probably start that tonight. If not, I'll finish reading A Pale View Of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro which I'm currently half way through. It's ...

... cret). Last year there was Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet and Hav by Jan Morris In 2005 there was Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell and The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome won the Clarke Award. A lot of ...

... own right) works have some degree of intertexuality with SF works. In fact we see inter-textuality with many genres in Cloud Atlas (as Medellia12 points out) - not just SF (although 2 of the 6 stories are SF). I am certainly not one who claims a book exclusively for a genre (a lot of good ...

Of course some feel that Cloud Atlas was a SF novel - even if it didn't say so on the label. It was nominated for both the Clarke and the Nebula.

... Burns, get out of my head! I have agreed with everything you've said 100%--and then you had to read my mind and bring up Cloud Atlas. Everything I might have had to say has been said by Cliff Burns & jargoneer... Interesting discussion.

... ideas in them--Anthony Burgess' EARTHLY POWERS, the novels of Thomas Pynchon, Ian McEwan's BLACK DOGS, David Mitchell's CLOUD ATLAS, Don DeLillo's UNDERWORLD...all present you with ethical and moral dilemnas, breath-taking perspectives and vistas of imagined and wholly invented worlds, ...

... and String by Ben Marcus Song for the Basilisk by Patricia A. McKillip Once on a Time by A. A. MIlne Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Dragon Path by Kenneth Morris A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien Buddha' ...

... this time ;) #106 joehutcheon & #111 Booksloth Thanks, that is a lot of suggestions... The Bookseller of Kabul and Cloud Atlas are on my TBR (er, along with ~ 600 other books). I'm intrigued by the London books. I'll poke around about the others.

... Swimming in the Wild, Wild Surf, by John Bennett, Girlfriend in a Coma, South of the Border, West of the Sun and Cloud Atlas. Hope something here might be a help or at least inspire someone else to come up with some good suggestions.

13. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, 2004 Dystopian fiction based on 6 time-periods, from the 19th Century to a post-apocalyptic future, interwoven to show that the fall of civilisation is inevitable due to human greed that ranges from simple banditry/slavery to corporate greed/slavery, and ...

... (January, 4*) 2. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (April, 5*) 3. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (June, 5*) 4. Dune: House Atreides by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson (August) 5. Consider Phleba ...

... felt in the mood for some McEwan after I went to see the movie of Atonement. I'm currently making my way through Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell which I'm enjoying so far, though I'm only about 70 pages in as I got distracted by some non-1001 reading in the middle. Both of these ...

... and failings and joyful ya-gotta-laugh overview make a fine insight into today's psyche. Also, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green.

From the library: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver From the bookshop: The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon

... mentions Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with 9 mentions Snow Flower and the Secret Fan with 8 mentions Cloud Atlas The Time Traveler's Wife TIED with 7 mentions Honorable mentions with 5 mentions each are: Bel Canto Nineteen Minutes Out Stealing Horses The ...

... awful, the book will be counted twice. P.S. These seem to be the most mentioned so far: A Thousand Splendid Suns Cloud Atlas Half of a Yellow Sun Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Nineteen Minutes Snow Flower and the Secret Fan The Book Thief The Road The Thirtee ...

Never Let Me Go - has the whole parallel world thing A couple of the sections in Cloud Atlas are futuristic Murakami in general is sort of fantastic, though I'd classify him more like existential sci-fi noir The Blind Assassin has a sci-fi story in story Cryptonomicon is more ...

... about it that I felt it 'cheating' a bit to tick it off without refreshing my memory about it. >291 amanda I gifted Cloud Atlas to my dad for xmas, which I feel is the highest form of praise you can give to a book- sharing it with someone else :)

My top five this year- in no particular order. The World to Come by Dara Horn Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Istanbul, Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk This has been a good reading ...

... Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas by Isabel Vincent. *spoiler-the cemetary issue was much clearer Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell This is one of the best books that I read this year. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy-this is one book that I read after ...

... I have enough to be getting on with with all the Bookmooch packages I always seem to be receiving... I gave my dad Cloud Atlas as it was one I enjoyed this year.

... are books that have come in the house in the last week: Fiction: The Snow Empress by Laura Joh Rowland Cloud Atlas picked up for $1 Gone for Soldiers ditto, and Peter and the Shadow Thieves Non-Fiction: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, which I've ...

Top 5 (in no particular order): Straight Man-Richard Russo Cloud Atlas-David Mitchell Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen (first time!) Plowing the Dark-Richard Powers Special Topics in Calamity Physics-Marisha Pessl Honorable mention: Kafka on the Shore-Haruki Murakami The Diamon ...

I loved Cloud Atlas! Read it several months ago; I don't reread often, but if this one wasn't out on loan to a friend, I'd probably dive into it again. I have wanted to read The Moonstone, but thanks to another novel I read (To Say Nothing of the Dog), I already know the twist ending. Did ...

... of the year: Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Richard Powers' Plowing the Dark, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion, Richard Russo's Straight Man, Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore and Pinball, 1973, Neal Stephenso ...

... Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Hey, it's still several hundred pages shorter than The Baroque Cycle by Stephenson. 3. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. 4. The Last Witchfinderby James Morrow. 5. The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas. Different, very different. ******** ...

... by Khaled Hosseini Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love by Lisa See Nineteen Minutes, by Jodi Picoult Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (won the Booksense BOTY award, 2007) Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (won the Impac/Dublin Prize, ...

... by Khaled Hosseini Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love by Lisa See Nineteen Minutes, by Jodi Picoult Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Lizard C ...

I'm not ready to post my top five but I have to agree about Cloud Atlas -it is in my top reads for 2007.

... : Fiction - Half brother by Lars Saabye Christensen I can't stress the brilliance of this book. Fiction re-read - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Non-fiction - Wildwood by Roger Deakin Truly erudite and learned. Teenage fiction - Apache by Tanya Landman Graphic ...

... Columbia with The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland Belgium, California,Hawaii, Korea and the Pacific Ocean with Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Palermo withThe Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth

... by Jim Crace 3. Far Horizons by Robert Silverberg 4. Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris 5. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 6. The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung 7. Storm Front by Jim Butcher 8. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 9. ...

... my top 5 (some of which I see others have also loved): Tess of the D'Urbervilles To Kill a Mockingbird (re-read) Cloud Atlas The Grapes of Wrath Sense and Sensibility

Top 5: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson The Ghost Road by Pat Barker The Awakening by Kate Chopin My least favorite was The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. What's with the ...

I just finished Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell and think that it is one of the best that I have read this year. I am now reading Thunderstruck by Erik Larson and am thoroughly enjoying it. I ,too, liked Accordian Crimes. I like all of Annie Proulx's works-novels and short stories. ...

From Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell: "Sometime the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage. (...snip...) I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed ...

I finished The Education of Koko by Francine Patterson and started Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Wonky touchstones, yadayada.

... was really well done. It seemed a bit longer than it needed to be, but that's the Victorian way, I suppose. 3. Cloud Atlas -- David Mitchell -- Some of the passages were just so sweet, there were lines that I re-read over and over again, and read out loud to others, just for the ...

I finished Cloud Atlas. We had a great book club discussion. Now I'm reading Love in the Time of Cholera. It has been in my TBR pile for months and after hearing a little bit about it lately (new Oprah book club choice) I decided to pick it up.

#281 and 283 I loved Cloud Atlas as well.

>281 robin27 I also really enjoyed Cloud Atlas. Does your brother have any more recommendations ? ;) I'm currently 34% through The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende. It's okay, but not really my cup o'tea. I might have to try drawing out a family tree to help remember all ...

i also loved Cloud Atlas and, though it's not on the list, would recommend Number 9 Dream by the same author.

>49 Strandbooks I recently finished Cloud Atlas and found the Adam Ewing stories the least engaging. However I found parts of the second Timothy Cavendish stories laugh-out-loud funny. I'm now 20% through The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende... it's readable, but perhaps just ...

I'm reading Cloud Atlas. I'm now in the second story. It is strange how the first one ended, but I guess that is part of the cleverness of the book. I'm interested to see how all the stories are weaved together.

>43 Strandbooks re Cloud Atlas ~ is there a reason why the majority of readers don't finish it? I really enjoyed it and the structure of telling half of the stories spurred me on to read further, rather than putting it down. I've now started The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende. ...

... one in my LT suggestions list for a long time and it is one of the 1001). I'm also going to get The Mill on the Floss and Cloud Atlas. We are reading Cloud Atlas for my book club....I picked it before I learned that it is a book that a majority of readers never finish. Not sure where I read ...

... was a Guardian review that compared Cloud Atlas to modern soaps. I'm just over half-way through and really looking forward to meeting all the characters again when their story's resume

I'm approx 1/2 way through Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell and really enjoying it. I'm going to London on the train on the 14th and am looking forward to being able to have a good long stretch reading it & maybe even finish it off :)

> 33: wonderlake, I wouldn't have compared Cloud Atlas to a soap opera. The "endings" are not so much cliffhangers as they are abrupt & unfinished. I agree the Luisa Rey Mystery is the most suspenseful storyline. I also liked the way the stories connected to each other through objects or ...

... focusing on a different (and much less reliable) narrator/character. That was fun. Also enjoyed, for example, the way Cloud Atlas is structured.

Ooh, I'm back to the 1,001; 10% through Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. (ugh, the touchstone always mis-spells his surname with only one 'L')

I'm reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell & have just finished the first story. I thought they were supposed to have cliff-hanger endings leaving you in suspense, before plunging into the next tale ? I thought it just ended, hmm.

>24: wonderlake, I loved Cloud Atlas. I think Mitchell is a wonderful writer. I hope you enjoy it!

>Jubby I very much enjoyed The Sea, hope you do too. I'm making a return to the 1,001 with Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell. I started it in November last year, but for some reason didn't get very far with it at all- I think it might have borrowed it from the library in a 1,001 binge & ...

I have started the reviewing process. Also finished Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. Loved it. Have added: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Idlewild by Nick Sagan On the beach by Nevil Shute Spin by Robert Charles Wilson The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau ...

>155: happyanddandy1, I loved Black Swan Green! If you like it you might also like Mitchell's Cloud Atlas.

... Concentration. Thomas Disch A Canticle for Leibowitz.* Walter M. Miller The Child Garden. Geoff Ryman Cloud Atlas. David Mitchell The Conquest of the Space Sea. Robert Moore Williams The Crucible of Time. John Brunner Dangerous Visions (anthology). Har ...

... little break from Ghostwritten, David Mitchell's first novel. Thus far, it seems like a less accomplished version of Cloud Atlas. I think it's really more a series of short stories than a novel and it's kind of uneven - sometimes I'm amazed at his ability to get into the heads of really ...

1. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2) 2. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (2) 3. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (1) 4. Walking the Bible by Bruce Feiler (1) 5. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka Actually, Walking the Bible didn't make my top 5 ...

... zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, at the starting cage." David Mitchell Cloud Atlas

... a shorter version about her childhood written for young adults. Loved it but couldn't get into Falling Leaves. Hated Cloud Atlas, The Magus, Notes on a Scandal, most of the books on any booker prize list (why do they have to try and be so intellectual, a good plot and interesting ...

... Ngozi Adichie To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ******* Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

... only those books I gave a 4.75 or 5 rating (and the month of June's not over yet, so I may add or change things later): Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - 4.75 The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg - 4.75 The Road by Cormac McCarthy - 5 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho -5

... by Irene Nemirovsky (1) 3. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 2007 Orange Prize Winner! (1) 4. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2) 5. A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela - I learned so much from this one (2) All of my first quarter picks are still in ...

My second-quarter picks are: 1. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2. A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela 3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The last one was a re-read, but such a wonderful classic I have to put it on the list.

from Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell: Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if his voice is leaning on mine.

... Wuthering Heights, which I found exhausting at times but overall much easier to read than I'd expected. Now I'm reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell and finding it very absorbing!

21. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell ...

... but Titus Alone was written for me, personally...well, I once knew someone who MET Peake... I'm having trouble with Cloud Atlas and Iron Council even though I really liked previous books by both authors. And there are so many classics I can't get through it's embarrassing. Wuthering He ...

40. Darkfall by Dean Koontz 41. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 42. Human Nature by Paul Cornell

... ... I *barely* got through it ... it bored me to tears ... it's just not my style of writing ... but if you liked Cloud Atlas, you may like Ghostwritten too (a lot of people seem to love it), so give it a try! =)

How did you like Ghostwritten? I read hisCloud Atlas and Black Swan Green and just loved them both. I've been thinking I need to read all of Mitchell's work.

... and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Road by Cormac McCarthy Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Anything by John Steinbeck The World According to Garp by John Irving To Kill a Moc ...

David Mitchell, in my opinion, writes novels along the same line as Atwood - especially Cloud Atlas which was just brilliant on so many level.s

I think Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell qualifies, or at least I hope it will some day. Each of the 6 interlocking pieces of the novel are so original and vivid. Best of all, they fit together into a coherent vision of the future but it's not too neat -- there's still plenty of room for ...

I finished Cloud Atlas at 3 o'clock this morning. In a way it's a relief because I really struggled with the first half - I couldn't see how the stories fit together and some of the dialogue was really difficult to work through. I'm so glad I persevered though. I've got a couple books going ...

I finally finished Cloud Atlas. It was, in the end, an outstanding piece of literature but definitely something it takes effort to read. Right now, I'm in 1960s Japan with The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. It looks to be a disturbing place. I'm also visiting China during the Cul ...

Cestovatela - I LOVED Cloud Atlas - it gets clearer as the novel progresses. Amandameale - Achebe is wonderful and this novel is one of his best. Lindsacl - I noticed that we have 99% of books in common :) gee who would've thunk it???!? I left Indiana on Saturday (The Bright Forever by Lee ...

... by. I'd like to keep reading it, but I also don't want to accidentally stop reading my acclaimed literary masterpiece (Cloud Atlas, if you were wondering). So how do you manage to split yourself between two books - do you switch books every day? Do you have one that you read at different ...

#129 keren7 For me, Cloud Atlas, for all its disparate parts, had one common theme. If you wish to discuss leave a comment on my profile.

... from his experience. At least that disappointment propelled me into the arms of some real literature in the form of Cloud Atlas. I haven't gotten far enough in to see how all of it fits together, but I have faith that I'm going to appreciate it in the end.

I'm plugging away on Cloud Atlas. It's not that it's bad, it's just that I feel disoriented because the jacket copy is all about how brilliant David Mitchell is and says nothing about what I might expect from the book (other than literary brilliance). This book has been recommended so highly ...

... so, I closed that book feeling I had a lot to think about. I just started the Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish in Cloud Atlas. I'm hoping it doesn't turn out to be one of those books that's so hyped by everyone that I end up disappointed. It's not bad so far, but I keep expecting to ...

>7: cestovatela, Cloud Atlas was my favorite book for the month of April, and I really like David Mitchell's work. Enjoy!

I just started Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. I'm kinda disoriented, but I think I'm on an island off the coast of New Zealand.

I finished Cloud Atlas. I found it a fun and interesting read, could attribute so many meanings and plots to the story - hmm - still trying to sort it out. I did enjoy reading it though. Am now reading Gabriel's gift and have only just begun.

#139 & 140 I loved Cloud Atlas too.

... favs: Baltazar and Blimunda by Saramago The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Carey A Fine Balance by Minstry Cloud Atlas by Mitchell Wicked by Maguire The Idiot by Dostoevsky Years of Rice and Salt by Robinson (there are more too, but these are the top 7)

>139: keren7, see my post #121. I loved Cloud Atlas. It turned out to be my favorite book for the month of April, and at this point is a solid contender for my list of faves for the year. Hope you enjoy it!

I am now reading Cloud Atlas and am finding the book intriguing to say the least

... writing was hard to read at times. It took me a long time to read. But I do feel it was worth it. Next up, I will read Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

For me it was David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. An excellent book!!

... for people. Happy Friday for me! The Thirteenth Tale Cross 4th of july 5th horseman Lonesome dove cloud atlas Down Under The Camel Club The Outsiders Rise and Shine Dear John The Lincoln Lawyer Judge and Jury This Christmas The Plague Fight ...

# 195 (Stensvaag) Isn't Black Swan Green fabulous!??! I loved this book. You might also like his book Cloud Atlas which I just finished. David Mitchell is a writer of rare brilliance!

Just finished Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell WOW - awesome book. Last night I dove into The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar. I'm only 25 pages in, but so far so good.

>43: writestuff, I'm delighted you are enjoying Cloud Atlas !!

... of the year. #100 (HMOKeefe) how are you liking Ghostwritten? I have read Black Swan Green and am currently reading Cloud Atlas by this same author...both are wonderful books.

From Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell: "...What drives some to accrue power where the majority of their compatriots lose, mishandle, or eschew power? Is it addiction? Wealth? Survival? natural selection? I propose these are all pretexts and results, no the root cause. The only answer can be 'T ...

I am reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. It is taking me longer to read than it should because I have been distracted by family health issues (my dad), BUT it is fantastic. I am in awe of Mitchell. This is my second Mitchell book in the last month (I also read Black Swan Green). And now I ...

>96: lhuggins, I loved The Poisonwood Bible. Hope you enjoy it! I finished Cloud Atlas on Monday and am now on to Beasts of no Nation.

... Years of Solitude - review: didn't like this one so much. 17. Cloud Atlas - review: FANTASTIC! Predict this will be my favorite for April.

lindsad - I am SOOOOOO looking forward to diving into Cloud Atlas after reading Black Swan Green. I decided to read a short, quick read first (I was so exhausted after plodding through For Whom The Bell Tolls!!

... Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg. It's a short novel, so I anticipate reading two other books this week as well: Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell and The Space Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar

I recently finished One Hundred Years of Solitude and am now reading Cloud Atlas.

I am voraciously devouring David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. I started it last night and have been unable to put it down. It's delightful!

... the Chatham Islands off of New Zealand, and then abruptly en route from England to Belgium. This is David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas.

>32: writestuff, I am about 50 pages into Cloud Atlas and utterly enchanted. Amazing stuff. And one of the characters, set in 1931, has just met a Mrs. van Outryve de Crommelynck ... hmmm ... same character as in Mitchell's Black Swan Green? Needless to say, I'm hooked.

Cloud Atlas is also on my list TBR as soon as I finish For Whom The Bell Tolls which has become quite plodding for me.

#27 lindsacl I re-read Cloud Atlas a couple of months ago. Nothing else I've read this year has had the same impact. It's a truly astonishing piece of literature. I do hope the two of you engage.

Just returned from the Library with three books for myself: 1. From my TBR pile - Cloud Atlas 2. For my New York Times Notable Book Challenge - Beasts of No Nation 3. For an online book group - Fall on Your Knees And I also picked up, for my other half, Pigeons, which had caught his ...

I think Ghostwritten is a much better book than Cloud Atlas, although the conceit and structure is essentially the same. I don't quite know why I've never been attracted to number9dream; perhaps because of Norweigan Wood where a similar Beatles reference is used by an author, Murakami, who ...

Today I went into a bookstore that I like and found a half-price sale! I bought Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua and Six Plays by Jason Sherman

... to finish. In fiction the top 10 included Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (32%), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (27%), Cloud Atlas (24%). Non-fiction included at position 4 "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Lynne Truss (26%). Top was The Blunkett Tapes. The comment mentions that Cloud Atla ...

I loved Cloud Atlas. The different styles were terrific and I throught that the disparate stories formed a perfect whole due to recurring themes used throughout the novel. Prior to that I had looked at Page 1 of Number9dream and given up straight away. I haven't read Ghostwritten. Should I? ...

... a book is nothing new in fiction, though. Unfortunately I can't think of any examples I've read at the moment, but I heard Cloud Atlas had a plot like that.

... moving on to The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney. The Zoe Heller was ok but I'm still on a mental high from Cloud Atlas last weekend, which has carried me through a difficult week and pushed other books into the 'also ran' class. Also zapping through Night Rise by Anthony Hor ...

#48 angstrat - I have just found Cloud Atlas benefits immeasurably by being read a second time and I can see me re-visiting it yet again as it has proved such an exhilarating experience this weekend. At a certain point, I found myself breathless with admiration at the cohesive structure of the ...

lizzier #35 I really liked Cloud Atlas and it is a book I would like to re-read soon because I think there are layers I might have missed the first time around when I gulped it down. I just finished back-to-back two memoirs/reflections on a dead spouse--About Alice by Calvin Trillin ...

Started re-reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell for one of my upcoming Reading Group meetings during the insomniac hours last night. I only wanted to skim read but it really is impossible to do justice to this book by skimping. On a second reading, it simply becomes better and better and ...

... have sitting in the little shelf on my headboard: The Final Confession of Mabel Stark (indeed, I've started this one) The Cloud Atlas Anansi Boys The Roald Dahl Omnibus The Best New British Mysteries Extra Virgin and Tom's Midnight Garden ...a nice range, I think! ~S

>71 I haven't read the most recent by David Mitchell but all the reviews suggest that it's quite different from Cloud Atlas and Ghostwritten, both of which I have read and very much enjoyed. Not sure how best to describe their narrative structure - someone here will probably do a much ...

... started I am Charlotte Simmons -- I feel obligated living right down the street from Duke. Krin re#61 -- did you like Cloud Atlas? It is on my list, but I was underwhelmed by Black Swan Green

Recently finished: Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Now reading: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung

There are also those instances when a TEFL teacher becomes a writer in his own right - Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell is a good example. Back to the point though - I can't think of any instances in literature that I've read. I'll give it some thought over the weekend; there must be ...

... a slightly disjointed novel. The narrative flow between stories is much stronger than in other such works, i'm thinking of cloud atlas and Hotel World.

Currently reading: Far Horizons edited by Robert Silverberg Arcadia by Jim Crace Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

... Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Lamb by Christopher Moore Honorable mentions go to The Thirteenth Tale and Cloud Atlas.

... The Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson (I know, it's three books and therefore a cheat, but I did read it all at once.) Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Wallace Stegner And my top audiobook of the year was The Moon ...

Yesterday I started Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. I've not given it quite my full attention yet, which I find a problem when starting a book - I like to read at length the first time I pick up a book. And I know it's a cliche but I hope it's as lucious a read as its cover suggests!

... on books that have some redeeming qualities that kept me reading, but ultimately disappoint in some way. See my review of Cloud Atlas, for example.

... John Irving The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Good Omens ...

... is part of Ishiguro's skill: for me, he communicates wonderfully without playing with language. At the same time, I loved Cloud Atlas and The Sea for their cleverness with words.

... think so..." pieces when remembering stuff. Also, the prose isn't that good, compared to John Banville's The Sea or Cloud Atlas (I'm certainly no expert, so take what I say with a grain of salt; I'd love to be shown the error of my ways)

... 30 years ago Pynchon made the Hugo shortlist and today we see award nominations for people like David Mitchell for Cloud Atlas and awards for Philip Roth for The Plot Against America and Amitav Ghosh for The Calcutta Chromosome. Of course most of those aren't SF writers but ...

... participate like I thought I could), and I'm trying to get a Book Discussion on the Bas Bleu group going, I was think of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. I'm to busy in "real time" to attend local book clubs. So, I'm going to keep busy with them here.

... up some of the others, and still haven't done it. If there's anyone else interested, I'd be happy to do so, or to read Cloud Atlas, which really appealed.

Wait look what I found that looks interesting: Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

... they're quite good. As for contemporary novels to convince the unfaithful, I'd go with Atonement, What a carve up!, Cloud atlas, The line of beauty Everything is Illuminated, White Teeth, La classe de neige (any francophiles around?), The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay, ...

... and Silence by Rose Tremain Leaning Towards Infinity by Sue Woolfe HIghways to a War by Christopher Koch Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Saturday by Ian McEwan The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

... A Feast for Crows, which I'm finding slower going than the first three in the series. Also, I'm almost done listening to Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - I've got Alanna, the First Adventure by Tamora Pierce queued up next.

... morning. Going to go pick up A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin from the library tomorrow. Also listening to Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.

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