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David mitchell author cloud atlas6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s how we will go: 1) The story itself, its style and composition, 2) Its major themes, 3) Its similarities and differences with a few other works, and a few allusions I picked up, 4) Its movie potential. If you read this review it may spoil the novel for you on that level, so if that concerns you, just go read the book instead, then come back.īut if you want to know anyway, come along. In this review I am going to try to avoid specific spoilers, however, the generalities of the work will come up and especially what I see as the moral and philosophical core of the work. I will review the movie in a few days and include the trailer then. ![]() I won’t include the trailer here because it may affect your reading of the story it did for me (while reading I kept thinking “I wonder who is going to play this character?”). I could tell that the story was going to be fascinatingly intricate, and that a movie could not do it justice, so I wanted to read the novel first before seeing the movie. I picked up this book because I saw the trailer for the movie version by the Wachowskis (of “The Matrix” fame) that is coming out today. (There may be other works out there like this, but I don’t know them – I’m an ethicist, not a lit guy – so if you have suggested readings, let me know!) It is a tour-de-force through six stories, each story with its own genre, creating a multigenre whole unlike any work I’ve read before. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is a spectacular novel. ![]()
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