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devilgate at 01:43pm on 25/01/2006 under 2006, book notes, books, cloud atlas, david mitchell
devilgate at 01:43pm on 25/01/2006 under 2006, book notes, books, cloud atlas, david mitchellYes, and only a day after the last one. It took me a bit longer than that to read it, mind you.
A science-fiction book that was nominated for the Booker: amazing. And have no doubt about it: this is a science-fiction book. Just as Nineteen Eighty Four is; and Orwell's masterpiece is perhaps the best reference point for Cloud Atlas. The appearance ofO'Brien's Goldstein's book within Winston Smith's story may well have been a model for Mitchell's multiply-embedded stories.
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But all of this matters little. What does matter is that this is a damn fine book.
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A science-fiction book that was nominated for the Booker: amazing. And have no doubt about it: this is a science-fiction book. Just as Nineteen Eighty Four is; and Orwell's masterpiece is perhaps the best reference point for Cloud Atlas. The appearance of
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But all of this matters little. What does matter is that this is a damn fine book.
Technorati Tags: books, book notes, 2006, david mitchell, cloud atlas
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