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So my partner just bought me a copy of The Bone Clocks for xmas. Believe it or not, I have yet to read any David Mitchell, despite the three books of his lying unread on the shelf.

So, my question, of course, is:
Do I read The Bone Clocks or Cloud Atlas first?

Someone mentioned that there were some callbacks to Cloud Atlas characters in Bone Clocks, but they didn't think it made a lot of difference. Opinions?

Bone clocks is a sequel of sorts to The Thousand Autumns of Jakob de Zoet

The events of Jakob are present in Bone, as well as characters. I'd suggest reading Jakob. It's chilly but quite brilliant.

Cloud atlas is far and away his greatest achievement - and the film version is beautiful so is say Cloud all the way. Cloud also ties into Clocks, all his books endlessly fold in on each other

There are references to several different books in Bone Clocks. But, as Richard said, his books reference back on each other. So order shouldn't make a difference in terms of understanding. I'd second Cloud Atlas as a starting point, but because I'll be reading Bone Clocks this month you should read that one.

Reading The Bone Clocks now, just because. I'm liking it so far, but have to stop falling asleep and letting it hit me in the face.