About a week ago I finished Cloud Atlas. I thought it was really good, if really dense in a few chapters. But I really love the setup and the way it's written. "Letters from Zedelghem" was an absolutely gorgeous chapter, filled with musical prose and references and just afjkdsl. I loved "The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing" too, though. It's hard to say which of the six chapters was my favourite.
The day after I finished it I got Stephen King's new book, Doctor Sleep, which is a sequel to The Shining, which I read years ago and absolutely loved. I reminded myself about it a little, then started Doctor Sleep. I wasn't loving it, really, for the prologue and much of the first chapter. Then somewhere along there I started liking it more and more and got really drawn in, kind of obsessively, and was reading it nonstop. I was done by the next day. It's like 520 pages or so, and I read basically half of it, put it down to sleep, woke up and finished it. Just so, so, so good. It's not as scary as The Shining (it's honestly not very scary at all, though there were a few parts where the imagery had me creeped out), but it's the latest in King's recent bout of awesome character development and stories that matter because you care about the characters.