NP - Cloud Atlas

[Ghetta Life]

Cloud Atlas is not a hard read at all.

!!! SPOILER BELOW !!!

I'm currently in the 4th chapter.  The 3rd chapter, "Luisa Rey," read like a 
very short (and not very good) spy-thriller.  That chapter had me starting 
to lose faith with this book (but I'll keep going to the end).  Each chapter 
has a thread connecting it to the one before, and that thread is the actual 
TEXT of the previous chapter emerging as an artifact into the current 
chapter.  That is an interesting concept and structure.  It seems that the 
"bad spy-thriller" was intended to be just that, with the author not yet 
identified, which is then found by the first-person "author" of the 4th 
chapter.

I am beginning to agree with MalignD that the writing is sometimes too 
"cute," but the interconnections of the different chapters may make the 
individual ones not the real focus...

Ghetta

>From: Joe Barrera <joe at barrera.org>
>
>Huhmp -- found reading Cloud Atlas (and C o Lot 49) very easy reading.  
>Easier than Infinite Jest and much easier than most of Pynchon's work (e.g. 
>GR). Perhaps it's a matter of taste.

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