[My new book] starts in 1960 with a woman named Lois Rabinowitz, who was evicted from Manhattan traffic court for attempting to pay a parking ticket while wearing slacks. This was...
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David Mitchell hands us a work to a praised with Cloud Atlas. Each character and setting we are introduced to comes with thier own genre and conflict. Themed towards power struggles and the dangerous path humanity is on, it's a read that almost any audience can enjoy. On the surface, six short novellas that can be read for simple escapism. Deeper, it's the Bible meets Blackadder meets humanistic values. While I struggle to write a comprehensive summary (you almost forget the plot of the first by the time you reach the sixth) it's a book worth reading, if not adding to your bookself.
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell
kattinthebookself, February 28, 2009
David Mitchell hands us a work to a praised with Cloud Atlas. Each character and setting we are introduced to comes with thier own genre and conflict. Themed towards power struggles and the dangerous path humanity is on, it's a read that almost any audience can enjoy. On the surface, six short novellas that can be read for simple escapism. Deeper, it's the Bible meets Blackadder meets humanistic values. While I struggle to write a comprehensive summary (you almost forget the plot of the first by the time you reach the sixth) it's a book worth reading, if not adding to your bookself.(5 of 18 readers found this comment helpful)