Château Zedelghem, Neerbeke, West Vlaanderen 29th - VI - 1931 Sixsmith, Dreamt I stood in a china shop so crowded from floor to far-off ceiling with shelves of porcelain antiquities etc. that moving a muscle would cause several to fall and smash to bits. Exactly what happened, but instead of a cra...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2013/10/cloud-atlas.htmlI have to admit. I finished reading this book a while ago. I have taken this time to dwell on it, reread passages, think about it some more, and really consider how I describe it. Reading this book, I fe...
Count me among those who are blown away, moved, enraptured by this novel. It worked for me on at least six different levels: plot/narrative; structure; voice; theme; symbolic/linguistic; genre.It worked in the grandest sense of its philosophy (its dismantling of the Nietzchean 'will to power' concep...
Cloud Atlas is one of the most enjoyable books I've read in a long time. There are a number of aspects that recommend it, but let me tell you, it is a progressive's kind of book. It is an indictment of imperialism, capitalism, and materialism, painted with moral gradients. Mr. Mitchell paints those ...
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is an enjoyable albeit a challenging read. My first impression of the book is that I think I would have had a very hard time getting into it if I had not seen the movie first. This is mostly because the beginning of the book to be rather slow paced and because it took p...
This acclaimed work has six novellas embedded inside one another like Russian dolls. Considered one of the most important works of the 21st century it is a complete waste of time.My addition has a laudatory blurb by Byatt on it and it reminds me of what I disliked about Possession, so I am not surp...
Eh, I liked it.Probably for the same reason I will probably enjoy Shatter Me - I like new things. I like experimental, I like shiny, I like having to stretch my brain a little further than I usually have to, regardless if the end result is successful or not. THAT, I think, is an entirely different d...
I gave this book an honest effort before watching the movie. I just could not get into it. I gave up after 100 pages in. I love to discover new words in books when I read, because I like to look them up in the dictionary. This book, however, had so many that it was impossible to enjoy the story,...
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