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Station Eleven
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July 2, 2015
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July 31, 2015
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Trisha
Sep 28, 2015 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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Nancy
Mar 12, 2017 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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Natalie
Jan 15, 2015 rated it really liked it
Shelves: favorites, sci-fi, award-winners, adult
4.5 stars. Quite an interesting and thought-provoking apocalypse story. The ending felt a bit abrupt, and I wish I could know what would happen next... but overall I still really liked it.
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Lucy Davidson
Jul 29, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: favorites, books-that-made-me-cry
THIS BOOK THOUGH?! THIS BOOK.
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Mandy Beyers
May 29, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: science-fiction, borrowed
So good! I love how the author imagined what would happen if so many died so quickly and how the rest would survive and remember. #afterthedisasterbooks
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Snowtulip
Dec 28, 2014 rated it really liked it
Shelves: dystopia, audio
1 like · 
Andreea
Jan 03, 2015 marked it as tbr-audiobooks
1 like · 
Lauren
Jan 03, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Gabriela
Mar 07, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: dystopia, tbr2016
1 like · 
Jessica
Apr 01, 2015 rated it liked it
Amelia
Apr 08, 2015 marked it as to-read-interesting
Shelves: do-not-own, pub2014, moldy-books
Jenn
Jul 09, 2015 marked it as to-read
Juliana Philippa
Jul 14, 2015 marked it as to-read
Diana
Aug 30, 2015 rated it it was amazing
JK
Sep 09, 2015 marked it as to-read
Kymberley
Oct 12, 2015 marked it as to-read
Tien
Apr 20, 2017 rated it really liked it
Shelves: read-on-kobo, dystopia, post-apocalyptic
Dom
Jan 03, 2016 marked it as to-read
Patti
Oct 13, 2016 marked it as to-read
Devin Murphy
Nov 23, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Sue
Apr 24, 2017 rated it liked it
Nicole
May 15, 2017 rated it really liked it
Shelves: own, dystopian
Kelly
Jun 23, 2017 rated it liked it
FranBoogie
Jun 16, 2017 marked it as to-read
Lesa Divine
Feb 02, 2019 rated it it was ok
Shelves: i-own, 2019, read-it, botm-selection
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Dec 30, 2017 marked it as to-read
Netanella
May 02, 2018 marked it as to-read
Shelves: dystopian
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May 31, 2018 marked it as to-read
Lisa
May 02, 2019 marked it as to-read
Shelves: adult-dystopia
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