I finished Cloud Atlas and it feels like I’ve been trying to read it for longer than I had been trying to read The Moonstone. The first story, it didn’t grab me. The second story, much better and the third better still. Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, rather ho-hum but I stuck it out and I suppose I’m glad I did.
It was different. It felt a wee bit too full of itself, in places. A bit cliche’d and a bit contrived too. But different and interesting. I almost feel like I need to read it again. Like I missed something important, somewhere in those stories. Like maybe I’ll enjoy it more on the second reading. Unfortunately, there are too many books and not nearly enough time to go back and give it another shot. Maybe in my next life?
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This wasn’t a challenge book was it? Cause you should only work that hard on challenge books. 😉
When did you remove “recent comments” from your sidebar? I just noticed.
It was a challenge book! So I’m three down, yea me!
I don’t know when I took recent comments off, do you want them back? I didn’t even know they were there for a long time lol.
This blog layout bugs me, it needs a serious overhaul.
It’s your blog, your choice. lol I look at them but no biggie if they aren’t there.
It would be nice if we could take a ‘to read (again)’ list to the next life :).
Oh Lies, that would be a beautiful thing. Who knows, maybe we can…