NP - Cloud Atlas

[Bekah]

Hi,

I'm just back from vacation and am catching up.  I tried to read 
Cloud Atlas and found it very difficult going.  I put it back on the 
shelf around Chapter 6.   Then someone encouraged me to listen to it 
on digital.  I did and it was much much easier going.  I actually 
enjoyed most of it.  (g)

I'll be actually reading the book later this month probably for a 
reading group selection and I think I might get through it this time.

In other news,  I read The Crying of Lot 49 twice on my little 
travels.   I read it,  turned it over and started in again.   Great 
stuff, but M & D is still my favorite.

Bekah


At 1:18 PM +0000 7/7/05, Ghetta Life wrote:
>So far I've found the writing neither outstanding nor poor.  Since 
>the chapters are (so far) either diary or letter forms, there is no 
>outlet for deeply complex narratives like those of Pynchon recently 
>posted here by Kai, (unless the diary or letter writer were someone 
>like Pynchon).  I get the idea that the richness will come from the 
>overlapping of widely different period writings, something that 
>demands one keep reading for a while before passing judgement.  I'll 
>know more after a few more chapters.
>
>Ghetta
>
>>From: MalignD at aol.com
>>
>>>  <<It's supposed to be a fragment of a diary written in the 
>>>period, so how else should it have been written?>>
>>>
>>My complaint wasn't with the idea of writing in a period style, it 
>>was with the execution, which I found precious and overly pleased 
>>with its own perceived cleverness.
>>
>>If you liked it ... fine.
>
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