NP - Cloud Atlas

[Bekah]

Sounds fine to me.   Could something be said about posting spoilers 
warnings if someone is going to divulge any of the plot developments 
from the last half or so of the book?  And then maybe at some point, 
the spoiler warnings can come off or stop or something like that.

Bekah

At 9:06 AM +1000 7/8/05, jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
>It came highly recommended to me as well, from several very reliable 
>sources, and the first few pages seemed just fine to me too. I've 
>just finished _The Charterhouse of Parma_ and then have to look at 
>Rushdie's _Haroun & the Sea of Stories_, but it's next on my list 
>after that.
>
>It might be worth an informal group read here while nothing else is 
>happening. Schedule that first chapter from next Monday for a week, 
>say?
>
>best
>
>>From: "Ghetta Life"
>>Subject: NP - Cloud Atlas
>>Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:31:52 +0000
>>
>>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historical documents put together by a researcher with an implicit message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.