Cloud Atlas is a fantastic read. A friend of mine hosted a viewing party for the movie, and wouldn’t say anything about for fear of spoiling it! Later I borrowed their copy and enjoyed every minute reading it. The following may be an unpopular opinion, but I slightly prefer the movie ending.
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Avid bedtime reader, lover of sci-fi, mystery, and suspense. If you looked at my bookshelf you'd see a lot of nonfiction, despite how little I read it. All the good fiction I read gets passed on, the rest gets donated.
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joshua rated The Dispossessed: 5 stars
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The story takes place on the fictional planet Urras and its moon Anarres (since Anarres is massive enough to hold …
joshua rated The Hot Zone: 4 stars
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (Dark Biology, #1)
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There …
joshua rated Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 4 stars
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the …
Later by Stephen King
SOMETIMES GROWING UP
MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary …
The Stand by Stephen King, Empty Author
Imagine America devastated by a vast killer plague that moves from coast to coast. Imagine the countryside destroyed and great …
Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories Vol. 2 (LOA #297): The Word for World Is Forest / Five Ways to Forgiveness / The Telling / stories (Library of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition) by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Novels & Stories, #2)
The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the …
joshua rated Project Hail Mary: 5 stars
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …
joshua rated All the Light We Cannot See: 4 stars
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and …
joshua reviewed Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors …
Review of 'Cloud Atlas' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
11/22/63 by Stephen King
11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveller who attempts to prevent the assassination of United States …
joshua rated I Am Legend: 4 stars
joshua rated The Catcher in the Rye: 4 stars
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New …
joshua rated The Martian: 5 stars
The Martian by Andy Weir (The Martian, #1)
A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man's struggle to survive.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one …