Oh my! Someone else who has read Cloud Atlas! How wonderful :) Wasn't it amazing? I don't think another book has affected me quite so much since The Bone People (have you read _that_? ...it's another book that will completely cut you off at the knees). I'll probably read the Cunningham out of interest - I liked The Hours quite a bit, thought at risk at sounding like an impossible snob I confess to preferring Mrs. Dalloway. Having read it before The Hours, I appreciated the cleverness of what Cunningham was doing (after all, I do have a thing for intertextuality, ha ha). This latest one apparently has references to Walt Whitman in it, with whom I'm not really familiar, and it's all tied to Sept. 11 somehow, and there's a distopian future section too I think. There was a lukewarm review in this week's Entertainment Weekly (blush - high journalism is not something I go in for).