Station Eleven in Around the World in 80 Books

Nov 03, 2014 alana added it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, dystopia, canada, sci-fi

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Nov 23, 2016 Tony rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: novels, speculative-fiction, setting-us

Finally picked this up to see what all the plaudits were about, and while it's not bad, it's not that amazing either. It's got your basic post-apocalyptic/dystopian setup -- the "Georgia Flu" kills almost everyone on the planet and then we meet a bunch of the characters who are then the protagonists of the main storyline, some 15-20 years later near Lake Michigan.

Civilization has receded to scattered self-sufficient villages, and anyone who travels does so very warily. One such group is the "Tr ...more

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Oct 22, 2014 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: dystopian-and-post-apocalyptic, 100-best-of-21st-c, lotsa-buzz, carnivals-and-circuses, all-time-favorites, literary-schmiterary, yikes

This keeps showing up in Best of lists for 2014 ...

I really really LOVED this book! It's a story of disaster and collapse, but I found it so uplifting in the end. When I finished it, I felt like I had this glow around me, a glow of everything-is-okay-now. It's hard to explain.

I don't even know what to say about it, except I loved it.

I'll be honest, even though I read rave reviews, I wasn't expecting much. Because I first saw this recommended in a list that also recommended California, and I was ...more

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Sep 22, 2015 Anie rated it really liked it

Shelves: female-protagonist, used-to-own, female-author, male-protagonist, fiction, free, sff, 2015

What a story. This weaves in and out of lives, in and out of place, in and out of apocalypse. There were moments that left me feeling hollowed out, in the way that a book with meaning will scrape you bare and leave you rearranging yourself in a new pattern. It's not an easy book -- not hard to read, but something that really does leave you feeling changed. It's hard not to, when you end up contemplating your relationships, your mortality, what it means to be tied to other people and to places. ...more

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Mar 27, 2015 Lori rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, book-club, post-apocalyptic-dystopian

Loved it! It was the first book I read on my new Kindle Paperwhite. ;) I liked how the characters were all connected by one character who died even before the flu pandemic wiped out modern civilization. This was less a story about survival in the physical sense and more a story about survival in the community sense. A post-apocalyptic story with hope. Ahh.

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