Cloud Atlas

by David Mitchell | Audiobooks |
ISBN: 0340822783 Global Overview for this book
Registered by winglmn60wing of Spotswood, Victoria Australia on 6/12/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by winglmn60wing from Spotswood, Victoria Australia on Saturday, June 12, 2010
Here's an audio version of one my favourite modern books. One I discovered via Bookcrossing that now holds a place in my permanent collection. I listened to this one again - and still love it! Hopefully a new reader will love it too!

From The New Yorker...
'Mitchell's virtuosic novel presents six narratives that evoke an array of genres, from Melvillean high-seas drama to California noir and dystopian fantasy. There is a naïve clerk on a nineteenth-century Polynesian voyage; an aspiring composer who insinuates himself into the home of a syphilitic genius; a journalist investigating a nuclear plant; a publisher with a dangerous best-seller on his hands; and a cloned human being created for slave labor. These five stories are bisected and arranged around a sixth, the oral history of a post-apocalyptic island, which forms the heart of the novel. Only after this do the second halves of the stories fall into place, pulling the novel's themes into focus: the ease with which one group enslaves another, and the constant rewriting of the past by those who control the present. Against such forces, Mitchell's characters reveal a quiet tenacity. When the clerk is told that his life amounts to "no more than one drop in a limitless ocean," he asks, "Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"'

Journal Entry 2 by winglmn60wing at Windows on the Bay in Mordialloc, Victoria Australia on Saturday, July 17, 2010

Released 13 yrs ago (7/17/2010 UTC) at Windows on the Bay in Mordialloc, Victoria Australia

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Taking to meetup - where it will either be snaffled by another bookcrosser or left to do some travelling!


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Journal Entry 3 by leeny37 at Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Sunday, July 18, 2010
I have never listened to an audio book before so looks like this is a good one to start with! Thanks, lmn60.

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