At the start of this
year I've been searching for a new book to read, as reading has been one of my
favorite ways to spend my "me" time. I had to look up some book
reviews for it though because I'm looking for something new, something to take
my imagination for a spin. Just like in movies, I easily lose interest when the
plot or the theme gets predictable. Or maybe it's just that I want my
hard-earned money to buy something that can really teach me something new.
And Cloud Atlas gave
me more than I asked for. It's not just a novel, it's six (6) different stories
spanning six (6) different eras. The characters are linked together by a single
birthmark shaped like a comet, and a universal rule that knows no space and
time.
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| Favorite book of 2013 :) |
It was a
helluvanexperience. Personally, I found it breathtaking and exhausting at the
same time. Each character lived in a different era, therefore for each
"chapter", one had to be accustomed to the setting, the characters,
the culture, and most especially the prose. The vocabulary of the 1800's are of
course, different from the 1970's, and from 2013, and Mitchell invented his own
slang for the future. Mitchell, takes a delicious spin at every turn and I
loved it.
