Title: Visit your library
Review: If you're thinking about buying this book, I assume you will read other reviews or summaries for info concerning the structure and stories that make up Cloud Atlas. Recapping the whole thing would be almost as tedious as reading the novel.As intriguing a notion as the concept of linking stories through time and space may be, Cloud Atlas failed to provide stories and characters that were worth spending time with. Each individual's story seemed -- there. My personal response to the characters can best be summarized by my exclamation when I got to the place where one character explains how he has arranged his suicide. "Thank goodness. Will the next story be any better?"Cloud Atlas is one of those books you can borrow from your local library. If you love it, then buy it.
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