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Cloud Atlas
« on: November 27, 2012, 12:52:31 pm »
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I finished the book last weekend, and then saw the movie. I really, really enjoyed both. As is usually the case, I would still recommend the book over the movie, but both were terrific.

Any other fans (or haters?) out there?
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Re: Cloud Atlas
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2012, 01:40:22 pm »
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I liked the movie. I guess parts were ridiculous, but at least they were attempting something interesting. The visuals were compelling.
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Re: Cloud Atlas
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2012, 02:46:41 pm »
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Haven't watched the movie.  Really liked the book.  Frobisher's letters were my favourite of the set.
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Re: Cloud Atlas
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2012, 02:55:09 pm »
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Haven't watched the movie.  Really liked the book.  Frobisher's letters were my favourite of the set.

I adored Frobisher's letters. Unfortunately, the movie condenses that story too much, and it's arguably the least well-translated of the six stories (along with Luisa Rey's story), despite Ben Whishaw's perfect performance as RF.
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Re: Cloud Atlas
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2012, 05:50:40 pm »
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I loved the movie.  I don't see why so many people didn't like it.
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Re: Cloud Atlas
« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2012, 08:12:31 pm »
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I finished the book last weekend, and then saw the movie. I really, really enjoyed both. As is usually the case, I would still recommend the book over the movie, but both were terrific.

Any other fans (or haters?) out there?

Loved, loved, loved Cloud Atlas... read it a few months ago.

Picked up another book by the same author w/o realizing who wrote it, Black Swan Green.

Eva, Vyvyan Ayrs daughter, makes a cameo appearance--as does a woman in the Timothy Cavendish nursing home story--in the book. I didn't realize it for a while until I started making connections.

 - Father was a composer.
 - A young musician fell in love with her.
 - From Belgium.
 - And finally has a character listen to Cloud Atlas.

Anyways, I thought that was pretty cool. Black Swan Green is a completely different style than Cloud Atlas--although all the stories within it are completely different from each other. Sort of a more modern Catcher in the Rye, but vast differences from that as well.
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