Cloud Atlas

I am an avid reader and love to become engrossed in a good book. This postmodern novel consists of a series of stories that interlock and interwine through different eras, lifestyles, and cultures from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future. "David Mitchel erases the bounderies of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us."

Although difficult to get into at first it becomes one of those books that you cannot put down, engrossing you yet annoyingly flipping to the next story seemingly unexpectedly. It is not until you get half way and the final story finishes that you realise that each one is completed in the other half of the book. Only then are the stories fully linked with those subtle connections alluded to throughout.

Judge a book by its cover as this one is simple yet perfect for the book.

A must read for anyone who likes a challenge.