Kirtiman DasKirtiman Das:
The book arrived in perfect condition, and ever since I saw the movie (which I loved), I have been trying to get my hands on the movie tie-in edition. The story, as you know, is concerned with 6 characters across 6 different time periods, all of them the same incarnation of one soul. The author has a huge imagination with which he vividly paints 1880s Pacific Trade to 2140s Neo Seoul, each with their own language and (supposedly) culture, making whatever we read a very lived in world. It might be a tedious for a newbie who is instantly expecting high drama and action, but take some time and allow the words to soak in, you won't regret it.
India on May 12, 2022
LS (ITA):
Surely a remarkable writing endeavour - albeit too baroque at times…
… unfinished, unfortunately.
What’s an intriguing, elusive build up of a complex plot, deflate disappointingly in the last couple of pages, with the author just giving his vision for a better world.
This book delivers on many levels…
… the ending is not there.
Netherlands on Jan 16, 2022
Jesus Eduardo:
I was hooked with David's: The Bone Clocks and thus decided to buy this one, and all I have to say is that it is highly worth it.
Mexico on Aug 01, 2018
Bruno Accioli:
Cloud Atlas is definitely the best book I've ever read. The way Mitchell wrote this book is amazing. Each story has a different narrative is almost as a new book but connected with one another.
The hardcover edition is beautiful.
Brazil on Feb 03, 2017
BookLover59:
Certain books (SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, SHATTERDAY, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, etc.) and authors (Nevada Barr, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, John Irving, Ann Tyler, Neil Gaiman, George RR Martin, Jorge Luis Borges) have so impressed me that I've felt compelled to share the book with other readers and/or located everything ever written by said author. CLOUD ATLAS and David Mitchell turned out to be that sort of book, and that sort of a writer (I've purchased all of his other novels as well).
I should also begin by admitting that even for an unreserved, omnivorous reader like me, making headway into this novel as was bit tough. But ONLY because the first chapter is written in diary form, and in the 18th century style of English (at times, it reminded me quite a lot of Herman Melville's seafaring novels, so accurate was the mimicry. And after getting comfortable with that style, it was easy to finish the final chapter (the end of that narrative) when I got to it.
Mitchell's Fourth novel, CLOUD ATLAS (perhaps his masterpiece), is - like his first - a collection of the different stories...
United States on May 24, 2013
Robin Magovern:
CLOUD ATLAS (2004 Man Booker Prize Finalist) is complex fiction; David Mitchell joins (strings n weaves) six medium-length tales--each nearly sufficient unto itself and each passably resolved, together; notwithstanding the abrupt mid-sentence termination of Adam Ewing's journal entries at the outset (initial chapter) ah, intrigue in the offing (!) and despite how tenuously one character may suggest another--from a prior segment--Mitchell reintroduces them in a kind of second-half sequel, and so it all soon begins to work rather well.
His characters (credible?--passably; likable?--two or three; where not--revelatory of gritty humanity) reflect each other across eras: 1850s, 1930s, 1970s, 1990s, and a science-fiction-era: Year 2144--in which cloning has led to an evolved yet enslaved sentient class) so it seems Mitchell is reincarnating his creations; also, there's this 'comet' tattoo of his that keeps popping up, tail n all (ooooh, so spooooky--nah, not really: the author neglects to drill this body-ink motif sufficiently to get it through my thick skull; never did say: "Ah, I get it!" As for Twilight Zone's theme wafting o're me whenever a story-connecting...
United States on Oct 31, 2012
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| Language | English | English | English |
| Literary Fiction (Books) | Literary Fiction | ||
| Best Sellers Rank | #290 in Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction #700 in Historical British & Irish Literature #7,101 in Literary Fiction | #3 in Mathematics Study & Teaching #4 in Calculus #52 in Education Workbooks | #10 in Calculus #27 in Expeditions & Discoveries World History #31 in Applied Mathematics |
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| ISBN-10 | 081299471X | 1941691242 | 0358299284 |
| Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction (Books) | Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction | ||
| Publisher | Modern Library | Zishka Publishing | Mariner Books; Reprint edition |
| Dimensions | 5.7 x 1.4 x 8.3 inches | 8 x 0.35 x 10 inches | 5.31 x 1.1 x 8 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.34 pounds | 2.31 pounds | 2.31 pounds |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0812994711 | 978-1941691243 | 978-0358299288 |
| Hardcover | 528 pages |
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