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Science Fiction

FloridaJudy

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6. I finished it.

Reply to FloridaJudy (Original post)

Sat Oct 27, 2012, 12:31 AM

Oct 2012

Thought "Well, that was pretty good, but a bit over-rated". But then I found some some of the images haunting me - the Sonmi 451 part especially. They were horrendously disturbing in the book; I don't know how they'd play out on screen. And I found the future dialect monologue in the middle something of a trial. Not that it wasn't interesting, just that it wasn't easy to follow. Think "Clockwork Orange" meets "Huckleberry Finn". There were times I wanted to slap the author "Write English, dammit!" Except he was. From the far future.

The first movie reviews have come it. They called it a gorgeous and ambitious mess. I still want to see it bad.

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Cloud Atlas [View all] FloridaJudy Oct 2012 OP

There's a book??? SheilaT Oct 2012 #1

I hope he had some say-so about the script FloridaJudy Oct 2012 #2

I honestly think the problem with most SF movies SheilaT Oct 2012 #3

I just ordered the book. I won't see the movie for a while. I'm excited. The Wielding Truth Oct 2012 #4

I just checked my local library moobu2 Oct 2012 #5

I finished it. FloridaJudy Oct 2012 #6

According to the reviews FloridaJudy Oct 2012 #7

Did not read the book. Saw the film today. dogknob Nov 2012 #8

Ebert *loved* it! FloridaJudy Nov 2012 #9

Yeah, I gotta read it first too - currently #6 on my library's waiting list nt codjh9 Nov 2012 #10