{"id":1713,"date":"2008-03-30T00:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenbooks.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/30\/book-review-cloud-atlas\/"},"modified":"2011-06-26T10:18:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:18:11","slug":"book-review-cloud-atlas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2008\/03\/30\/book-review-cloud-atlas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Cloud Atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow.<\/p>\n

I just finished the most amazing book – Cloud Atlas<\/a>, by David Mitchell. I found this book when I asked a guy at BookPeople<\/a> for a dystopia, and I can’t recommend it enough.<\/p>\n

It’s a nested set of matryoshka dolls in front of a mirror; six separate stories woven together from the 1850s to a post-apocalyptic future and back again. Each could stand on its own, yet when taken together are glorious.<\/p>\n

Here’s some thoughts I had while reading it:<\/p>\n

About 10 pages in:<\/b> Hmm. This doesn’t seem much like a dystopia. Oh well, it’s ok so far.<\/p>\n

About 40 pages:<\/b> WTF?<\/p>\n

Another 40 pages:<\/b> WTF???<\/i><\/p>\n

Later:<\/b> Wow, this is good! Hey! Wait! I needed more about that guy, you can’t just leave it hanging…<\/p>\n

Still later:<\/b> Holycrap this is good, but if all these threads don’t wrap up some how I’m gonna be pissed!<\/p>\n

End:<\/b> Wow. What a rush.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can’t really say much about the stories, because really, you just have to see for yourself. Anything<\/i> I could say would be a spoiler, so I won’t go there. This is one trip worth taking.<\/p>\n

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Wow. I just finished the most amazing book – Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell. I found this book when I asked a guy at BookPeople for a dystopia, and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s a nested set of matryoshka dolls in front of a mirror; six separate stories woven together from the 1850s to a post-apocalyptic future and back again. Each could stand on its own, yet when taken together are glorious. Here’s some thoughts I had while reading it: About 10 pages in: Hmm. This doesn’t seem much like a dystopia. Oh well, it’s ok so far. About 40 pages: WTF? Another 40 pages: WTF??? Later: Wow, this is good! Hey! Wait! I needed more about that guy, you can’t just leave it hanging… Still later: Holycrap this is good, but if all these threads don’t wrap up some how I’m gonna be pissed! End: Wow. What a rush. Can’t really say much about the stories, because really, you just have to see for yourself. Anything I could say would be a spoiler, so I won’t go there. This is one trip worth taking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}