cloud atlas

[Madness]

Maybe not every box of Mitchell's novel is perfect, but you can't
fault his ambition and it's obvious that the talent is there.  I think
it's a shame that he wastes some of his gifts in this one by mimicking
other voices, but read as a whole, _Cloud Atlas_ is a very good book.
I like his first two better, but this one will keep me reading him.

Peace

Mark
(currently reading Pamuk's _My Name is Red_:  any thoughts on this
book, or this writer, from anyone?  Can't recall that I've read his
name a lot here...)



On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:59:12 -0400, Richard Romeo
<r.romeo at atlanticphilanthropies.org> wrote:
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> Got about half way thru david mitchell's new book—quite disappointing 
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> Maybe it's the curse of Michael chabon—too much earnest heartfelt mediocrity 
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> Oh well…. 
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> Eagerly beginning Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell 
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