Cloud Atlas

First book I've completed in quite a while, but what a book! Ambitious in scope and style is an understatement in this vastly rich novel that takes six different narratives in six different styles (past, present and future) and weaves them ingeneously into a philospohical feast. Take each section on it's own and they are still good reads, put them together and you have a bit of genius that covers issues of power, recurrence, self-fulfilling prophecy, reincarnation, altruism and memory. Quite fascinating and always absorbing I would recommend this to anyone, although it does take a little patience to begin with the rewards are infinite! Will be on the lookout for both Ghostwritten and Number9dream, David Mitchell's earlier works as soon as I can. Kx