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If you’ve read one post-apocalyptic book, you’ve read them all. People have been killed off by some disaster or war or pestilence, electricity and technology are backdrops in the oral history of man, and paranoia reigns. Station Eleven isn’t all that different, but it’s written with such intelligence and care that it stands out as being superior to your run-of-the-mill tale of apocalypse. Further, the book shifts between apocalypse, post-apocalypse, and pre-apocalypse, keeping the book from grow
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Some terrible disease has wiped out 99% of the earths population. There are glimpses of how this happened as seen through the lives of a few of the characters. The night is all started an actor was performing King Lear but suddenly dropped dead of a heart attack in the middle of the performance. Many of the characters featured in the book have a connection to this actor, and the book skips ahead to fifteen years after the collapse (as it is called) and follows them as they cope with a vastly dif
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This book has an interesting premise, however, I really wanted to knock some sense into what was left of civilization. 20+ years into this and people are still scavenging. Maybe doing a bit of gardening. People that went out to settle The West had done so much more with so much less. They don't have the zombies to fight like in the Walking Dead. This isn't exactly the Oregon Trail Adventure where you will probably die of dysentery. One review said that people wouldn't care about Shakespeare or m
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What does it mean to be human? In Station Eleven, Emily St. John suggests that our relationships to one another and the beauty that we share through art and literature elevate our lives beyond simple survival.
Station Eleven begins with the death of one man, a star actor who suffers a heart attack onstage. An EMT trainee from the audience rushes to his aid, and a child actress witnesses the scene. At the same time, a deadly flu has already begun spreading, and in a matter of weeks nearly all of t ...more
Hard copy. I wanted to read this book before watching the HBO Series.
This is a story about a pandemic that causes civilization as we know it to collapse.
Where COVID-19 had an overall mortality rate of 4.9% worldwide, the Georgian Flu in this novel had a mortality rate of 99%.
It makes you think about what might really happen if we were to experience a more severe epidemic or some other similar world event.
This book jumps back and forth in the timeline and tells several different story lines that ...more
This is a story about a pandemic that causes civilization as we know it to collapse.
Where COVID-19 had an overall mortality rate of 4.9% worldwide, the Georgian Flu in this novel had a mortality rate of 99%.
It makes you think about what might really happen if we were to experience a more severe epidemic or some other similar world event.
This book jumps back and forth in the timeline and tells several different story lines that ...more
Of course a supervirus is going to take us all out. Anyone could write that. And maybe even some could predict that people would band together and hold on to art by performing music and theater. But Mandel makes the story more special by bringing in such a broad cast of characters and motivations and tying them together through a graphic novel and the dysfunction of celebrity lifestyles. I'd recommend this book to just about anyone, and I don't really believe in 10/10, so I'll go with a 9.7/10--
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I really enjoyed this book - a post apocalyptic story that goes back and forth from before the plague and after, and has characters that are all connected by one person who actually dies the day the plague begins.
Dec 08, 2014
Chantal
marked it as to-read
Jul 31, 2018
Nicole
marked it as to-read
