Station Eleven in The Toast

Jan 05, 2015 bijal rated it it was amazing

this was gorgeous and horrifying, i loved it, the end.

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Dec 31, 2014 Melanie Greene rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Definitively in the Top Books of 2014

I had the fun of listening to this engrossing, fun, intriguing novel with my family, which meant long discursive chats full of speculation and excitement and "I bet that guy is this guy!" and "but what happened to M???" and "hang on, look at this map, they've walked so far" whenever our road trip required us to stop and, you know, enjoy the sights instead of listening to our book.

Even without that, I'd have loved Station Eleven. It's lyrical and dreamy and h ...more

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Jan 06, 2015 Maggie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-2015, audiobooks

Did I enjoy it? Yes, more than I thought I would. I mean, obviously I was interested enough in the summary of it to want to read it, but I'm kind of tired of end of the world/dystopia plots, so I wasn't sure how much I was actually going to like it. I was pleasantly surprised.
Would I read it again? Probably
Who would I recommend it to? People who are interested in other people. This is a book about life after the end of the world, but at its heart I felt like it was just a book about people and w ...more

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Mar 30, 2015 Heather rated it it was amazing

This book has no right to be so good.
I'm super burned out on post-apocalyptic fiction and dystopias, so I avoided Station Eleven for a while. But I caved and picked it up eventually, and I'm so glad that I did.
As a genre book it's...not the best. The mechanics of the apocalypse and the subsequent rebuilding of societies were often questionable, to say the least. But that's not what one should read this book for. Read it, simply, for the beauty of the writing, the sentence-level construction an ...more

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Feb 12, 2015 Allison rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2015, dystopias

Honestly, I almost put it down after the first chapter and the phone call. But I'm glad I kept going, it got much much better. I really liked the way all of the sub-plots were intertwined, and for a post-apocalyptic book it was surprisingly ... thoughtful I guess? Cheerful isn't the right word exactly but it was a lot less doom-and-gloom than many, without glossing over the hardships. ...more

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