NP - Cloud Atlas Trailer

[Prashant Kumar]

I wasn't talking about the integrity of the two as short story collections,
I just think it's interesting to compare the knitting.

On Sunday, July 29, 2012, David Morris wrote:

> OK
> Let's list short story collections that are better, and why.
>
> On Saturday, July 28, 2012, Prashant Kumar wrote:
>
>> I read the same thing about Lethem's Amnesia Moon. Although I think
>> Mitchell does a better job of "hiding the seams". In Amnesia Moon I felt a
>> kind of uneasiness - excuse my physicspeak but here I think it's
>> appropriate - at the protagonist's lack of "path dependence". Mitchell
>> dodges this by having the threads separate, and blurring characters.
>>
>> Prash
>>
>> On 29 July 2012 02:53, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I thought I read an interview with him where he said that originally,
>>> they were separate short stories that he decided to link together into a
>>> novel.
>>>
>>> Laura
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Prashant Kumar
>>> Sent: Jul 28, 2012 11:22 AM
>>> To: Dave Monroe
>>> Cc: David Morris , P-list
>>> Subject: Re: NP - Cloud Atlas Trailer
>>>
>>> A few of the narrative threads are better than others. His range is
>>> impressive, but I agree with Laura. The links between narratives a touch
>>> contrived. Good, low carb fiction.
>>>
>>> On 29 July 2012 00:51, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:54 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Cloud Atlas Extended Trailer #1 (2012) - Tom Hanks, Halle Berry,
>>>> Wachowski Movie HD <http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=hWnAqFyaQ5s>
>>>>
>>>> David Mitchell's Soapbox: the Great British Public
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/jul/19/david-mitchell-soapbox-great-british-public-video
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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