More of wot I have read...

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell


This was a very interesting book not just for the narrative but for the unusual writing style. There are six stories that start in the past and proceed through to the future, each partially completed – until you get to the last story in the middle of the book that is whole, each of the other stories is then completed in turn until you get back to the first story. Each story makes reference to the previous one in a continuation but they are quite different stories, written differently in different styles (diary, pulp novel, interview etc.). I liked it very much.


“Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies...


Six interlocking lives – one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity’s will to power, and where it will lead us.”