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Publisher's summary
By the New York Times best-selling author of The Bone Clocks
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in 21st-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical, and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.
Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite.... Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter.... From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life.... And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neo-capitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a post-apocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.
But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.
As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult-classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.
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Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for 13-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in dying Cold War England, 1982. But the 13 chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell's subtlest and most effective achievement to date.
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Captivating
- By Angie on 06-28-06
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Unruly
- The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
- By: David Mitchell
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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In Unruly, David Mitchell explores how early England’s monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects’ destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky bastards who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in their portraits.
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Hugely Entertaining (If You Like English History)
- By Jean Ogg on 10-09-23
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David Mitchell: Back Story
- By: David Mitchell
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- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on moustache in That Mitchell and Webb Look, has written a book about his life.
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One of the Funniest, Clever Brits around
- By Delia on 08-30-13
By: David Mitchell
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Behaving Ourselves
- David Mitchell on Manners
- By: David Mitchell
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- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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Over the course of the series, David eats his lunchtime sandwiches with children in a primary school and later goes to a street market to see manners - good and bad - in action. He explores where our manners come from with Professor Steven Pinker from Harvard University and the author Henry Hitchings. What do we mean by 'civility' and 'good manners' in public places? Why are people still pinching vicars' bottoms, and what can the state do to improve standards of public behaviour? And, David asks, how is the digital age changing our sense of public space?
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Fascinating Subject Matter! Pithy! Insightful!
- By MJCLAXDEN on 05-24-21
By: David Mitchell
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Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse
- By: David Mitchell
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- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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Why is every film or tv programme a sequel or a remake? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it okay? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them? These and many other questions trouble David Mitchell. Join him on a tour of the absurdities of modern life - from Ryanair to Richard III, Downton Abbey to phone etiquette, UKIP to hot dogs made of cats.
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Good Book: Wrong Milieu
- By scott on 09-04-19
By: David Mitchell
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Mitchell on Meetings
- By: David Mitchell
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- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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In this fantastic follow-up to Behaving Ourselves: David Mitchell on Manners, the comedian and columnist turns his attention to meetings, examining our love/hate relationship with them and asking how we evolved from getting together for a 'thing' to shouting at each other via Zoom. On the agenda: David talks to fellow comedian Russell Kane about the different ways introverts and extroverts behave in meetings; meets Dutch sociologist Wilbert van Vree to sum up several millennia of meetings; and gets some tips from executive coach Sophie Bryan about being a good chairman.
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This is not a book
- By Joleen Sloniker on 02-13-24
By: David Mitchell
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Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy
- By: David Mitchell
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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David Mitchell’s 2014 best seller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people think - because everything’s got worse. We’ve gone from UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, from horsemeat in lasagne to Donald Trump in the White House, from Woolworths going under to all the other shops going under. It’s probably socially irresponsible even to try to cheer up.
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Meant for UK listeners
- By Maggie May on 11-19-19
By: David Mitchell
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Last Night in Montreal
- By: Emily St. John Mandel
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility—when Lilia Albert was a child, her father appeared on the doorstep of her mother's house and took her away. Now, haunted by an inability to remember much about her early childhood, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and eluding the private detective who has dedicated a career to following close behind.
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Something reslly different
- By Donna on 03-21-16
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How to Cope with Mitchell and Webb
- By: David Mitchell, Robert Webb
- Narrated by: David Mitchell, Robert Webb
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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David Mitchell and Robert Webb tackle various subject matters in a How to Cope with... guide, talking you through every day scenarios and situations. The subject matters discussed are How to Cope with... Being Normal; Pubs; Being Dumped, Parts 1 and 2; Coffee; Malmaison Hotels; Nudists; The Smoking Ban; Actors; Servants; and Getting Older.
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Dazzlingly Funny!
- By Gwynne O'Reagan on 11-06-09
By: David Mitchell, and others
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- A Novel
- By: M. John Harrison
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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In M. John Harrison’s dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go along and break them just as fast, where there’s only one thing more mysterious than darkness.
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You’ll never see anything the same way again
- By Amazon Customer on 01-30-22
By: M. John Harrison
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How High We Go in the Dark
- A Novel
- By: Sequoia Nagamatsu
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus. Once unleashed, the Arctic plague will reshape life on Earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing humanity to devise a myriad of moving and inventive ways to embrace possibility in the face of tragedy.
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Should come with a sadness warning
- By KJH on 03-16-22
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Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
- By: Kelly Link - editor, Gavin J. Grant - editor
- Narrated by: Sarah Coomes, Nico Evers-Swindell, Shannon McManus, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft a world of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, and intrepid orphans - decked out in corsets, clockwerk suits, and tall black boots - solve dastardly crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships.
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MMMM, Orca Bacon
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 09-14-13
By: Kelly Link - editor, and others
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- Kayla
- 12-28-12
Gorgeous story, gorgeous performance
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One of my favorite recent reads/listens. The story is fantastically absorbing, and the performance is truly stellar.
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- M. S. Valdez
- 05-02-15
Whirlwind for the Mind!
This book simply left my head spinning! It begins in the 19th century with a group of sailors headed towards Hawaii. The story then proceeds through character after character over a timeline from the 1800s into a future that is so distant and apocalyptical that the people of that time period don't know the year.
I can't recall each and ever single character over the timeline, but the ones that stand out are the reporter in the 1970s doing investigative work into a nuclear power plant, the clone Somni in a dystopian future, and the post-post apocalyptical character of Zachry who lives in Hawaii. The reason I remember Zachy is because he's the character I like the least. His manner of speech (while perhaps realistic) is difficult to listen to. I wonder how it would come across when read.
Once the story hits its furthest point in time with Zachry, it then travels backward again through each character until we are back where we began with the sailor in the 19th century.
A great tale, expertly cast narrators, and story that effortlessly weaves through time.
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- Debra B
- 03-25-12
great
What made the experience of listening to Cloud Atlas the most enjoyable?
Great narration, great story lines. Easy to listen to. Very funny in one chapter. One of the best audible books.
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- Brian Lewis
- 10-30-12
Best Read in Awhile
What did you love best about Cloud Atlas?
It works on two levels. The book consists of six stories. Each internal narrative is interesting in its own right. Each character, individually, is very well drawn and compelling (with one possible exception). So, even as a collection of short stories it's a great read, and the changes in style keeps things fresh throughout. But the best part is that there's a lot to work out about the connections between the stories that's not always spelled out to the reader. Once you tap into the connections between the stories, the cascading set of endings is compelling and satisfying both within the short story - and for what you learn between the stories. So it's fun, but you can think about it, too.
Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
The narrators are really stars in this one. It's a tough book - there are six stories told in very different "voices," and the narrators do a great job of bringing each character to life, and, in certain instances, giving non-standard speech a personal immediacy that I understand was not there in the text-version of the book for every reader. I immediately began looking for their other material.
I've never enjoyed John Lee as much as I do here.
A good friend who read the text version informs me that the first and sixth stories can be a slog, and I did not have that experience at all.
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- Ed&Kel
- 11-05-12
Wonderfuly well writen and read
The book was a great read. I think the only issue with it for me was the break between the first and second section. It most likely worked well on paper because you can see the cut and switch, I thought for a bit there was a section of audio missing. However, that is only a small unimportant complaint to an otherwise amazing book.
All the narrators do a wonderful job and the fact that you have a different person for each section makes it easy to follow the story.
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- John
- 06-29-18
Brilliant Book; great narration!
I only recently discovered David Mitchell, and i regret it took me so long. I consistently find him to be the best writer i've encountered in a long time. And this is really kind of his magnum opus. Treat yourself and listen to it slowly; enjoy every sentence!
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- Andrei
- 03-11-16
Great book to listen to<br />
The writer is very dynamic in his presentation of the various stories and plots with a moral ending
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- Bill
- 12-06-12
Multiple Characters in a Unified Story
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes but it requires patience and concentration to follow a great story.
What did you like best about this story?
The transitions back and forth to the future and the past.
Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favorite?
Each narrator
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
When it was revealed that Dr. Goose was a fraud.
Any additional comments?
Although I have seen mixed reviews on the movie version, I will see it to compare it with the book.
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- Amy
- 06-30-14
Strangely Uplifting.
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Cloud Atlas tells six stories of individuals (or perhaps the same reincarnated individual?) starting in the mid-1800s through to a post-apocalyptic Hawaii. The stories are only tangentially related, and as the stories are “nested,” 5 of the tales are abruptly interrupted, to be finished later in the book. This book is different from many modern novels, and I was hesitant to write a review but… I found myself smiling and everything getting lighter as I listened to the performance. Particularly the stories that did not take place in the 20th century stories left me feeling hopeful. Perhaps because there was so much violence / malevolence in many of the stories, that very idea that we continue on while maintaining some humanity is hopeful.
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- AniAko
- 02-11-16
Solid, but had me asking "Really?" at times
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
It's a top notch performance, and the story takes you on a great ride
Who was your favorite character and why?
Zachry, he is the promised product that the book spans over centuries for, and is by far the most enjoyable to listen to
Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favorite?
Again Zachry, his performance was so genuine and he left me wishing there was more written about him once his story was complete
If you could rename Cloud Atlas, what would you call it?
Cycles of time
Any additional comments?
The book was captivating, but I noticed the reiteration of one of the books' main themes, and it was painful to hear it stated again and again. It didn't exactly beat the listener over the head with the message, but I would have appreciated it being more subtle, and allowing more room for interpretation. My interpretation was very similar to the message, but differed enough it felt like instructions from the author. This was very minor, and only happened a handful of times, but it was still apparent. Thankfully it didn't take away from the story or characters, but very solid overall.
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