Now that Christmas is over, we must begin the long process of thanking each of the kind people to have given us gifts this holiday. I know how arduous this can be, so I’ve taken it upon myself to offer some of my own thank yous as examples that you may wish to follow. Fair warning: don’t follow these examples.
Cloud Atlas is heavy on concept and light on satisfaction. I appreciate the lengths David Mitchell went to play with story structure in a way that’s rarely been done, but in the end, the artifice came off, well, artificial.
Maybe just watch the movie starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. I haven’t seen it, so I can’t compare the two story forms. But, it will save you quite a bit of time to just go the movie route.