Not Cloud Atlas, anyway
Over-written, self-indulgent pretentious shite.
(square go, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 9:43, 11 replies)

spot the dog
more your kind of thing?
(Raol Duke, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 12:31, closed)

The Hungry Caterpillar, actually
and your mum, etc.
(square go, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 12:50, closed)

oh
you went there.

bravo sir... bravo.
(Raol Duke, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 16:13, closed)

Yes, albeit reluctantly
your dad's so sexy.
(square go, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 21:22, closed)

dead people
generally are
(Raol Duke, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 11:58, closed)

Not to worry
my microwave is massive.
(square go, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 18:55, closed)

as i imagine
is the pile of speg encrusted tissues by your computer.
(Raol Duke, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 12:52, closed)

Stop looking through my windows, you filthy pervert
also, "speg": whit? Is that some sort of weird East Kilbride-ism?
(square go, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 19:00, closed)

It's alright.
I said pretty much the same thing down there somewhere.
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 2:15, closed)

I see your point
While my feelings aren't that strong, I was rather disappointed by it given the hype. Nowhere near as clever as it was made out to be.

However, don't overlook David Mitchell entirely because of it. I read Black Swan Green beforehand and thought it was excellent (another reason Cloud Atlas may have failed to please). It's a semi-autobiographical story about a young boy growing up with a stammer.
(annexed, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 13:06, closed)

agreed
Number nine dream however...
(skgorsky, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 13:44, closed)