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Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

Start date: July 2, 2015

Finish date: July 31, 2015

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Sep 28, 2015 Trisha rated it really liked it

Shelves: bought-audio

"This world is an ocean of darkness.
We are the light moving over the surface of the waters,
over the darkness of the undersea.
We long only to go home
We dream of sunlight,
we dream of of walking on earth.
We have been lost for so long
We long only for the world we were born into."

This was a wonderful dystopian/post apocalyptic story. Told in two parts - the world before and after. The before is told through flashbacks, as it shows you where the cast of characters were at the moment it all began to b ...more

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Mar 12, 2017 Nancy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: literature, dystopia, post-apocalyptic

I had to shelve this book as 'literature' because unlike so many dystopian or post-apocalyptic novels, this one is not in any way plot driven. It was such a breath of fresh air, and it reminded me that it is too easy to spend a book looking for the plot and miss the beauty and poetry of the writing and all of the thought provoking moments in a novel which stand outside of the plot. The book is ostensibly about the arrival of the Georgia Flu which wipes out 99.99% of the world's population over a ...more

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