It's such a great story and so well told that you'll zip right through it. :-)

I'm glad you enjoyed Cloud Atlas. I was in the optometrist's the other day, bullshitting with the workers there and one of them said, "... and this (worker) really likes fiction." So I said, "What are you reading?" and she said, "I'm just finishing up Black Swan Green." And I got so happy and excited that all I could say was "ohfuckohfuckohfuck DAVID MITCHELL !!! !!!!! CLOUD ATLAS !!!! !!! "

She kind of responded the same way and pretty soon we were just kind of yelling in code at one another and the rest of the crew were just standing there laughing at us.