At The Barnes & Noble Book Blog Somers tagged ten books you should finally read in 2015, including:Cloud Atlas, by David MitchellRead about the other entries on the list.
Cloud Atlas has the difficult novel trifecta: A shattered timeline, an invented patois, and a story involving several sets of characters in completely different time periods. The trick with Cloud Atlas is that it’s like reading seven novels all at once. There is a theme, and a point, but ultimately what this means is that if you’re confused or bored or mildly alarmed by what you’re reading, just muddle through—a new story will begin shortly.
Cloud Atlas is among the six books that changed Maile Meloy's idea of what’s possible in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue
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