Cloud Atlas

by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski

Cloud Atlas Blue Revisions - Ver. 14 | For Your Consideration | Awards 2012 | Warner Brothers

Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2012

About the author

Lana Wachowski (formerly Laurence "Larry" Wachowski), with her sister Lilly, are American film directors, screenwriters, comic writers and producers.

Reviews

[Mihai Adrian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this quite a few years ago, amazing read nonetheless :)

[Scott Whitney · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the Cloud Atlas Sextet as it is described in the book. There are six different stories we read half of as they go from the past to the future and then are finished as we come back from the future and into the past. I really connected with four of the stories and came to dislike the narrator of two of the stories. I must admit I listened to this book as I was driving back and forth to work each day and my like or dislike may be influenced by the narration, but the characters themselves are what turned me off to their part of the storyline.

[Camilla · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nonostante l'ambizione e la genialità della struttura — con sei storie collegate tra loro che saltano da un'epoca all'altra e cambiano continuamente registro stilistico — il libro finisce per perdersi nella sua stessa complessità. La scelta di frammentare così tanto la narrazione, interrompendo i racconti sul più bello, spezza totalmente il ritmo e impedisce di creare un vero legame con i personaggi.
Un'opera sicuramente originale e stimolante sulla carta, ma che nella pratica si è rivelata faticosa e priva di quel coinvolgimento emotivo necessario a renderla davvero memorabile.

[Daniela Beckham · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading this book was a unique experience. The first half was great. Each separate story had me interested and invested. Then it went off the rails and never found its way back. It ended up being a disappointment.

[R J Royer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book reminds me of string theory and particle theory as we know what it implies to photons.