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“What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.”
There’s a fragile, evocative beauty in what is lost to you forever; things that once seemed so omnipresent and permanent and yet slipped away, ”gradually, and then suddenly.” The fragile beauty of the world and people and the smallest things, and the bittersweet memories of what once was. The watershed between “before” and “after”, the time when everything can never go back to how it used to be.
There’s a fragile, evocative beauty in what is lost to you forever; things that once seemed so omnipresent and permanent and yet slipped away, ”gradually, and then suddenly.” The fragile beauty of the world and people and the smallest things, and the bittersweet memories of what once was. The watershed between “before” and “after”, the time when everything can never go back to how it used to be.
“I stood looking over my damaged...more
Such beauty, such devastation.
On the surface this is a book about a global pandemic that wipes out 99% of the world's population and people trying to regroup in the aftermath. It starts with the on stage death of an actor on the eve of catastrophe and then goes back and forth between the new world a couple of decades later and several peoples' lives some years before the old world ended. Through little details (an object, a chance encounter, a mutual acquaintance) all those people are in one way ...more
On the surface this is a book about a global pandemic that wipes out 99% of the world's population and people trying to regroup in the aftermath. It starts with the on stage death of an actor on the eve of catastrophe and then goes back and forth between the new world a couple of decades later and several peoples' lives some years before the old world ended. Through little details (an object, a chance encounter, a mutual acquaintance) all those people are in one way ...more
I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.
3.5*. This was an interesting time to read this book. Three months earlier and it would have put me into a panic; I'd have been out there stocking up on loo roll with the best of them. Now, with Covid slowly becoming the new norm and fears of a very real apocalypse put to rest, it's a reminder to appreciate what we still have left, the comforts we're still afforded, even now, in quarantine: our lights are sti ...more
2ish stars.
3.5 stars
- wonderful mix of timelines and characters
- dr. eleven is such a mood
- i feel like the chapters end too abruptly
- strange clash of passages connecting hollywood to dystopia
- wonderful mix of timelines and characters
- dr. eleven is such a mood
- i feel like the chapters end too abruptly
- strange clash of passages connecting hollywood to dystopia
What an pensive book, given that it's about the end of the world as we know it.
I can see how, in a morbid curiosity kind of way, people reached for this during COVID. The premise is that a virus has swept through the world, and left humanity back in the pre-industrial age in its wake. You start with a performance of King Lear (which I choose to interpret as neat bit of story building, since the descent of order into chaos is one of the themes of that play). The actor playing the titular king die ...more
I can see how, in a morbid curiosity kind of way, people reached for this during COVID. The premise is that a virus has swept through the world, and left humanity back in the pre-industrial age in its wake. You start with a performance of King Lear (which I choose to interpret as neat bit of story building, since the descent of order into chaos is one of the themes of that play). The actor playing the titular king die ...more
I felt quite divided about this book. I liked and at the same time thought the book too centered around King Lear with the metaphoric central character (Arthur Leander) taking up too much space. I would have wished the book was less centered on him embodying King Lear in our modern times showing the woes of our present world and more on other characters, like Jeevan or even Tyler, but then it would be a very different book. Altogether it was an original and well-written book even if not exactly
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Station Eleven was okay.
Not a solid 4 stars, but better than three stars. 3.5 stars seems accurate.
Station Eleven shifted between the past, present and 20 years into the future. I enjoyed the future and present most because it was the apocalypse and the survival after.
I was bored with any mention of Arthur Leander, or the Symphony performing Shakespeare plays. I skimmed through those parts.
Kelly, if this is on your TBR, remove it. Not worth your time when there are so many others to read.
Not a solid 4 stars, but better than three stars. 3.5 stars seems accurate.
Station Eleven shifted between the past, present and 20 years into the future. I enjoyed the future and present most because it was the apocalypse and the survival after.
I was bored with any mention of Arthur Leander, or the Symphony performing Shakespeare plays. I skimmed through those parts.
Kelly, if this is on your TBR, remove it. Not worth your time when there are so many others to read.
A post apocalyptic tale that deals less with the apocalypse itself than the aftermath and the new world to which the survivors are forced to adapt. I feel like I've read/watched an alarming number of end of the world type stories lately (here's hoping none of them actually occur), but this stands out for its ability to make the reader understand just how much we take for granted in our modern society and how easily it could all disappear. As far as world building goes, it felt similar to The Roa
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Jan 01, 2016
Jessica
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Dayna
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Tyler
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Aqsa
marked it as tbr-soon
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Andrew Tucker
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Victor Gutierrez
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