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Cloud Atlas
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Narrated by:
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Garrick Hagon
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Jeff Harding
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Steve Hodson
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Regina Reagan
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Liza Ross
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David Thorpe
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By:
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David Mitchell
About this listen
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell's best-selling Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel which was also one of Richard & Judy's 100 Books of the Decade, has now been adapted for film. The major motion picture, directed by Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, and Andy Wachowski, stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Doona Bae, James D'Arcy, Zhou Xun, Keith David, and Hugh Grant.
The novel features six characters in interlocking stories, each interrupting the one before it: a reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death row; and Zachry, a young Pacific islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation.
The narrators of Cloud Atlas hear one another's echoes down the corridor of history and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.
Mitchell's other novels are Ghostwritten, Number9Dream, Black Swan Green and The Thousand Autums of Jacob de Zoet, all published by Sceptre.
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I found this book strangely disappointing. I just couldn't get interested. This is unusual for me!Would you recommend Cloud Atlas to your friends? Why or why not?
I'm afraid I couldn't recommend this book to a friendperhaps it was just me...
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Is there anything you would change about this book?
After reading Bone Clocks, which I loved, I was a bit disappointed with Cloud Atlas. The individual stories were interesting and had great characters however the minimal thread between the stories and the fact he never pulled the stories together more at the end was very disappointing.What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
Two stories in this book really gripped me and I wanted more of them, the storyline of the fabricant protagonist set in a future Korea and the story of the Valleys man set in a future Hawaii. Both of these stories left me wanting more.Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favourite?
The actor that read the Valleys man looking back over his life was amazing.Was Cloud Atlas worth the listening time?
Overall I would have to say no. Some of the stories were gripping, but the slim ties between them wasn't enough for me.A bit disappointing after reading Bone Clocks
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What made the experience of listening to Cloud Atlas the most enjoyable?
A generally excellent collection of connected storiesDid the narration match the pace of the story?
Generally yes, although I had a few issues with the narration, as mentioned below.Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Parts of the story are bleakly funny, but my overall emotional reaction was a kind of disappointment at the nihilist conclusion to the timeline. The ending itself is optimistic despite the reader's knowledge of how things turn out.Any additional comments?
I came to Cloud Atlas via the movie, which I greatly enjoyed. I had difficulty initially reading the book due to the brutality of the first chapter. Knowing the story go me through that, but the cringeworthy pronunciation of the Maori and Moriori names by the first narrator very nearly put me off again.The decision to use a computerised voice for the Orison made listening physically difficult as well, necessitating an increase in volume whenever he/it spoke.
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