Monday, November 5, 2012

Cloud Atlas Finished

So I finished the book last night.... it was good, but it didn't have a tidy ending like I wanted. It just kind of leaves off and makes you think. Since I read it on my Kindle I couldn't flip back and forth between the stories to help me interpret things. It's way too hard on a Kindle. There was some cool stuff happening that was a little stressful for me while reading it. Just when the story gets good it always switches to another story which is frustrating and then when the story comes back around I had forgotten some of the characters which was also frustrating. It was making me very anxious.

I did find one very useful line in the book,

"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."

Ohhh I love that. It describes almost perfectly why I read. That quote is why I will love this book forever, because I know someone else out there knows what it's like in my mind.

In summary a great book, but read it in print so you can hop back and forth easily.
I want to go back and re-read this reading whole stories at a time, and not jumping back and forth. It definitely needs a second reading for full understanding.

I'll see the movie when it's on Amazon.

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