CLOUD ATLAS Demystified

With the film CLOUD ATLAS in theaters, BOOKD takes a close look at the astonishing, genre-defying novel that inspired it. Join an English professor, Buddhist teacher, professor of philosophy and the hosts of Sword & Laser as they deconstruct and debate David Mitchell's CLOUD ATLAS.

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This episode of BOOKD tackles the nonlinear, nesting doll structure of CLOUD ATLAS; its literary influences; the many different voices that author David Mitchell employs; the thematic similarities shared among the six different stories; and ultimately whether or not it all ties together.

Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont are the hosts of Sword & Laser, a popular online book club, podcast and YouTube series dedicated to fantasy and science fiction. You can visit their website (http://www.swordandlaser.com/) and watch their own episode on CLOUD ATLAS here: http://tinyurl.com/8crsmxk

Ethan Nichtern is a Buddhist teacher and founder of The Interdependence Project. He is also the author of two books, ONE CITY: A DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE and the novel, YOUR EMOTICONS WON'T SAVE YOU. You can follow him on his blog at: http://www.ethannichtern.com/

Matthew Hart is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and is currently gearing up to teach CLOUD ATLAS in the future.

Samir Chopra is a professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College who has written about CLOUD ATLAS on his blog: http://tinyurl.com/9sxdoxb

Amy Lau is a graduate of the Draper Master's Program at New York University, where she wrote her MA thesis, titled "Recognition of the Other: Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions in CLOUD ATLAS".


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[jason roberts]

sonmi was the best story for me!

[pantalaemon]

I think Robert Frobisher's story is the most heartbreaking, in the end. Dear god.

[lucasthebull]

Timothy Cavendish was my favorite :D

[Ocram Immorto]

Cloud Atlas 2, starring these folks.

[Ocram Immorto]

The most heartbreaking on screen as well.

[Chillydreamers]

Take that comment back, the movie is a masterpiece Art of work,other movie like this are also inception as donnie darko, ty.

[Ocram Immorto]

Post Apocalyptic was about overcoming your flaws and inner demons, and learning to coexist and trust another person, this being a different race that Meronym came with, which were basically aliens. The protagonist of that story played by Tom Hanks learned to overcome his demons and let another species help correct his sense of morality, and let alone salvage what was left of the human race for a better future. Not to mention he fell in love with Meronym XD

[TheH0R53FR34K]

The film only covered a very little part the book tells you.

It's worth every sentence!

[iseethereforiam self]

wrong

[Jonn Hollis]

Sorry but all these literary 'ctitics' have totally missed the point of this film... pearl to swine!