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07 January 2006

Book club FYI -- Amberglow will be posting some discussion questions later tonight.
What is the book? I've been incognito for a while...but would like to be at least a belated member than none at all.
posted by Schyler523 07 January | 17:26
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell. (Note: there's another Cloud Atlas.)

Book for next month is Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
posted by agropyron 07 January | 17:36
Holy God, I read the wrong Cloud Atlas. Carry on, I'll be watching football.
posted by rainbaby 07 January | 18:28
Rainbaby, you're not alone. Maybe it's the usernames?

How was the Other Cloud Atlas?
posted by agropyron 07 January | 18:35
sorry all--i had to bring work home, so am behind.

I'll be posting an official thread late tonight.
posted by amberglow 07 January | 19:59
Can I propose that the next book club thread posting be announced ahead of time, so we can all be reading it at once?
posted by agropyron 07 January | 21:36
I think we should hold off till tomorrow. 5pm EST? I have an engagement at 2pm, and I don't want to ruin people's Sunday night TV.
posted by Eideteker 07 January | 21:56
The other The Cloud Atlas was not very good. It had potential, being about the Japanese ballon bombing of North America during WWII, but the plot was excessively labored; it depended too much on overly contrived characters and made inappropriate digressions into magical realism when the author got too lazy to deal with the complex situations he set up; and worst of all, relied on "magical minorities" to resolve complex moral issues.

A so-so book that could have been a good one.

As a result of that canard, I'm only at the turning point of the real Cloud Atlas and have just begun to get a hint of the mid-book pivot. Not having got there yet, I'm disappointed that I won't be much use in the ensuing discussion.

On the bright side, I have almost completed this weeks mad-scientist project: the corpse grinder -- adding a motor to my sister's big hand-cranked sausage-making meat grinder. It should be done tomorrow and enormous quantities of sausage are now visible on the event horizon. In other food-related news, this year's harvest of hard cider has turned out very well. The King cider is the best ever: rich, full bodied and appley. The Carmin DeSanta is more tart and not as complex.
posted by warbaby 07 January | 23:01
balloon
posted by warbaby 07 January | 23:03
Tomorrow's better for me too--still working : (
posted by amberglow 07 January | 23:31
Amberglow: would you post the questions in advance and we'll do one a day (with the questions in the wiki and links to each day's thread)?

*stalling for time to finish the book*
posted by warbaby 08 January | 10:19
I completely agree with warbaby's assesment of THE Cloud Atlas.

So listen to him in the real discussion, y'all.
posted by rainbaby 09 January | 08:06
Evil Bunny, here's some Darkthrone || Look into my eyes, you are feeling verrrry sleeeeepy ...

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