109: Evil, Surfing Ronald McDonald

Published: Sept. 30, 2012, 8:30 a.m.

b'Soon to be a major motion picture you probably shouldn\\u2019t see, David Mitchell\\u2019s 2004 novel \\u201cCloud Atlas\\u201d is in our sights. This novel consists of six separate stories set in different genres and timeframes from the 1850s to a post-apocalyptic future, and yet they\\u2019re all interlinked. Somehow. It\\u2019s fun, weird, and challenging, but what does it all mean? Read it now before every character in it becomes Tom Hanks and Halle Berry.'