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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
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
Another post-apocalyptic novel, and a delightful one. In this instance, as in so many others of the genre, a post-apocalyptic world is merely the setting in which the author explores relationships and the underlying connections of humanity. I enjoyed the story, although I thought (view spoiler).
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Gorgeous, haunting, thrilling, beautiful.
Dec 05, 2021
Catie
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it was amazing
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Jan 03, 2015
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Jan 07, 2015
Deena Lin
marked it as to-read
Mar 30, 2015
Molly
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Nov 06, 2015
Grace
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