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This was one of the most talked about books of 2014 (at least in my corner of the internet) and I'm glad that I finally got around to reading it. This is a delicate, beautifully imagined, and sometimes heartbreaking vision of a post-apocalyptic world in which a flu kills 99% of the population and destroys civilization in a matter of weeks. I appreciated the characters and the many interesting ways in which they were connected to each other, knowingly or unknowingly, through a series of coinciden
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Thought this book was superbly written but conventional when it comes to the post apocalyptic genre. I wish it took more risks in the writing or the narrative and I'm surprised that it was a National Book Award finalist. I did love the Shakespeare woven into the narrative but, and I might be an idiot, I didn't find a lot of resonance of King Lear in the actual story so it seemed there just for flavor.
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Jan 11, 2015
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