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Originally Posted by elemenoP
>Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell<
I'm 2/3 through this right now! I am enjoying it very much! And also appreciating the X-Ray feature on my Kindle, since there are so characters to keep track of.
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Yeah,
Cloud Atlas is an amazing, deep, consciousness-altering book and David Mitchell is a wordsmith of the highest order. That was why the movie was so disappointing.
Anyway, that X-Ray feature sounds very cool. I wonder if my mom's Kindle has it. Probably not as it is a pretty basic, last-gen one. (sorry to go OT)
Ooooooh. To get back on-T:
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier. That is, if you don't mind ghosts. This one is haunting in more than one sense of the word, I suppose.
Anyway, I love the conceit. The (perhaps) sole survivor of a mysterious global plague called "The Blinks" is a woman who is/was part of an Antarctic expedition. It goes between her story and the souls of all the dead waiting in "The City." The City is emptying out, itself, as the souls who no longer have anyone living to remember them depart it.