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''Cloud Atlas'' by David Mitchell was nominated for the Booker Prize; received rave reviews and has been touted as one of the greatest reads of all time. As such, I delayed reading it for many months. After all, I was bound to be disappointed. Cloud Atlas is a novel told in six parts. Telling the tale of six radically different, yet linked lives, it is a disjointed mishmash of a book. Rather than a novel, this book reads like a collection of short stories combined by a loose connection and this is its strength and ultimately its weakness.