For this next reading of the Cloud Atlas, I enjoyed the Luisa Rey Mystery. Sixsmith returns from the previous section, but instead of being an anonymous receiver of letters, he’s a central character avoiding being murdered (and doesn’t succeed). I like how the plot thickens with this section and there is some suspense and mystery. Luisa acts as our little detective and she does a good job until the end of the section–which frustrated me as much as it did some of you. I couldn’t believe after all that, it could just end with her car going over the bridge! (Although, I should have known it would be something like that…a “to be continued” segue).
The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish was slightly less memorable or interesting to me. It was like one of those movies with a twist ending you never saw coming even though all the information was there to tell you what was going to happen all along. I didn’t get it though–was it really a sick joke on his brother’s part, or was Timothy such an unreliable narrator that we don’t know that he really needed to be in the nursing home? Or is that the point–to make us wonder? All I know is I would be freaked out if I was trapped in there too. He would have been better off going to visit his old girlfriend instead of being a peeping tom. *sigh* There’s no telling what’s in store for us next…
