Anyone read CLOUD ATLAS

[super1971]

what did you think am half way through, on the story of somni is it a circular story or are they menat to be the same person reincarnated?

Not sure I understand what you mean by a circular story, Super? I ploughed my way through it. I enjoyed some of it but was disinterested in many of the characters. I think David Thingie had lots of ideas for short stories and then just cobbled them together with a tenuous link!! I have to do a short presentation on it for my real life book group soon - I'll probably have to plagiarise something about it from Amazon or Mumsnet!!

hi
thought was a wonderful book, big fan of DM
i think his expert use of language is fantastic, few people are that able. in this book he writes in different voices and clearly in different styles/ genres. i think some work better that others but his ease with languange is an absolute pleasure.
just as a note some of the characters show up in another of his books.

ooh just finished, loved it not so keen on the ewing chapters but loved the rest especially the way characters overlap, will read hisa other books,

Loved the whatsername Lucia Ray? bits because I love all those Seventies conspiracy movies and it was just like that. Enjoyed most of the others. Sonmi was a very thoughtprovoking character. thought it was really pretty hard work to have to start again with a whole new lot of characters every 80 pages - usually that's just about where I am really enjoying a book.