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Couldn't put this down. Recommend to everyone ever.
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I HATE dystopian books. I may be the only person who thought Hunger Games was boring. I quit reading The Road. So I was surprised how much I enjoyed this book. Maybe I liked it because of the back stories, which helped me get into it and stay connected. There was one scene of a woman experiencing isolation in her life that is so well written it almost gave me chills. So anyway, I now have one dystopian novel I liked.
Even though I read this several months ago (for the second time, for book group), it has stayed with me - images, thoughts, the structure of the novel itself. It is post-apocalyptic, a genre I typically avoid, but there is hope and beauty in it - love of art, music, performance, and the written word - and most important, the sharing of that in a world where most things are stripped to bare bones. The author has done a masterful job of handling all the threads that run through this in a way that
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4.5 stars. Excellent! I’m not sure what I would’ve thought of this book if I hadn’t read in the middle of a pandemic but it was at times the perfect book to read now and the absolute worst book to read now. It was very well written, with great character development and a captivating story. I found myself enjoying the plot as I would a good book, but I was really fascinated by the parts of the book where the characters first encountered the pandemic. It made me extremely grateful the coronavirus
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This book is gorgeous. The way it weaves words with feelings and characters with time and space. It's a tale of survival and how it means something different to everyone. It's this homage to the things we love about the world now, but don't need and this amazing sort of perseverance that humanity has. It reads like poetry and thoughts, but still draws you in.
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I waffled for days about whether this is a four star or a five star book. This is not post-apocalyptic fiction like The Stand, so if you're looking for gritty survivalism, this is not the book you are looking for. If, instead, you are looking for something more quiet, more introspective, and more contemplative, where the end of the world trope is merely the vehicle, pick this one up.
In tone it reminded me of the Waubgeshig Rice novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, complete with an obligatory and mos ...more
In tone it reminded me of the Waubgeshig Rice novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, complete with an obligatory and mos ...more
This reminded me a lot of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAdam trilogy. With a less depressing ending.
The novel starts with the on-stage death of a famous actor playing King Lear. As the story jumps back and forth in time, it follows the stories of the actor and four people whose lives intersected with his—the child actor who watched him die, the would-be paramedic who tried to save him, his first ex-wife, and his oldest friend.
On the night that Arthur Leander collapses on stage, a deadly flu pandemic g ...more
The novel starts with the on-stage death of a famous actor playing King Lear. As the story jumps back and forth in time, it follows the stories of the actor and four people whose lives intersected with his—the child actor who watched him die, the would-be paramedic who tried to save him, his first ex-wife, and his oldest friend.
On the night that Arthur Leander collapses on stage, a deadly flu pandemic g ...more
Excellent book. In te=he same distopian well-written class as The Girl With All the Gifts and Madd Addam trilogy.
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