NP - Cloud Atlas

[Ghetta Life]

Well I did make it past the first chapter, and I had no problems with it at 
all.  It's supposed to be a fragment of a diary written in the period, so 
how else should it have been written?  The second chapter is in the form of 
a series of letters from a would-be music composer to a close friend.  So 
far there is no "narrator" who shapes the story, more like a collection of 
historical documents put together by a researcher with an implicit message 
or moral that the reader will form from these first-hand sources.  It is not 
"unreadable" for me.

Ghetta


MalignD:

I did not ["get past that dismal first chapter"] .   I wrote here, back when 
I tried to read this book -- and I began with much expectation to like it -- 
that I found it unreadable.   The chapter is in a pseudo-quaint old English 
style that is too precious by a factor of about six.   It makes M&D by 
comparison ...   never mind.

It's not good.

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