Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
“This is absolutely, hands down, one of the best books that I have read in a long time. While this came out back in 2004, it didn’t really appear on my radar until I read that it was being made into a movie starring actors like Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Halle Berry, and Hugo Weaving and written and directed by the people responsible for the Matrix. Cloud Atlasis a highly imaginative and beautifully written work that takes the reader through six separate but loosely related narratives. Without giving anything away, the stories are as follows: ‘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 vane 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 civilization’. Mitchell’s book manages to weave history, science fiction, suspense, mystery, humor, and pathos into one book that ultimately is an examination of what it means to be human. This was a beautiful work of literary fiction, and I appreciated the fact that each story was as equally fascinating as its predecessor.”
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3 Similar Reads (Fiction)
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3) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Access to library catalog here)
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1) Fate, Time, and Language by David Foster Wallace (Access to library catalog here)
2) What Is Man? by Mark Twain (Access to library catalog here)
3) Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson
single day of your life? This is the premise that David Levithan’s new novel, Every Day, is based on. It’s a fast-paced, deep, enjoyable read with an inspiring ending. Don’t miss it.” Here is a summary of the book from our online catalog: “Every morning A wakes in a different person’s body, in a different person’s life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon.”
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