I did not like David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas when I read it, thinking it was not much more than a rehash of stories told better by other writers along with some ill-defined New Age-y/eastern spirituality which is left criminally under-explained.* A Los Angeles Review of Books writer attempts to cite these weaknesses as strengths, using the argument that Mitchell is attempting to create a 21st-century novel. I remain unconvinced.
*I still cannot believe I actually read the 70-ish pages of poor pidgin English that was "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ever'thing After."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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