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See how they came together. When they're usually far apart. You know, they usually don't go together. But then I put them together. Much like Station Eleven. It made sense in my head okay!
I've read my share of Post-apocalypse stories. They're the fad, almost unavoidable. I think their popularity shows a distinctly unfortunate result of the times in which we li ...more
Literary
Post-apocalypse
Literary
Post-apocalypse
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Post-apocalypse
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See how they came together. When they're usually far apart. You know, they usually don't go together. But then I put them together. Much like Station Eleven. It made sense in my head okay!
I've read my share of Post-apocalypse stories. They're the fad, almost unavoidable. I think their popularity shows a distinctly unfortunate result of the times in which we li ...more
The writing was good and the story was entertaining, but I don't feel like a better person for having read the book. In the months to come I do not expect myself quoting parts of the book or remembering specific events with fondness or as illustrations of this or that situation. It is entirely a popcorn read, enjoyable but lacking much substance.
I wanted to point to a few things that I found to be specifically bad about the book. Every character seems to be emotionally stunted, even before the ...more
I wanted to point to a few things that I found to be specifically bad about the book. Every character seems to be emotionally stunted, even before the ...more
Mandel pulls off an impressive feat with this novel: it manages to be elegiac, uplifting, and horrifying all in one package. Probably the most lyrical post-apocalyptic novel you'll encounter, she brings forward the immediacy and enormity of the loss while painting a portrait of the beauty of everyday life. Following a traveling band of musicians and actors, the novel is fairly fast paced, despite a back-and-forth chronological structure. Various events in the characters' lives are interwoven so
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A little too neat at points, plot-wise, but very much the pleasured it is advertised as.
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