Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

[King Bob]

I know some of you have seen the film; I have not. This was a re-read for me and it held up well. It's six interlocking stories, and there are hints that some characters are reincarnations of characters in other stories. Mitchell does a good job of giving a distinct voice to each narrator, and they are quite varied: a notary in the South Seas in the 19th century, a composer in 1920s Belgium, a reporter uncovering a scandal in 1970s California, an elderly publisher in contemporary(?) England, a synthetic human in a future Seoul, and a post-Apocalyptic tribesman in a future Hawaii (the last in dialect reminiscent of Riddley Walker). His world building in the future sections is quite good too.

Doom recommended? I suppose certainly if you've seen the film, since I don't see how you could possibly make a coherent film from this, and once you read it you can say "So that's what it was about" or something like that.