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Hard to keep track of the back and forth in time periods or paste/present on audio. Some parts were interesting and other parts I couldn’t wait to be over so it could move onto a different time period and different group of people. I’m not a huge fan of dystopian and end of the world books, but there were many parts of the story, including a pandemic, that I really enjoyed.
Hard to keep track of the back and forth in time periods or paste/present on audio. Some parts were interesting and other parts I couldn’t wait to be over so it could move onto a different time period and different group of people. I’m not a huge fan of dystopian and end of the world books, but there were many parts of the story, including a pandemic, that I really enjoyed.
Because survival is insufficient.
Brilliant book on post-apocalyptic theme. Even though now this genre is a bit overcrowded, Station Eleven can still mesmerized me because it's not just about surviving the post civilization- but how we, as human beings, can preserve what we have lost. Art? Technology? Life. Yes, life.
The story revolves around two periods: before the Georgia Flu and after the Georgia Flu. Before the collapse and after the collapse. A movie star died on stage on the day when the fl ...more
Brilliant book on post-apocalyptic theme. Even though now this genre is a bit overcrowded, Station Eleven can still mesmerized me because it's not just about surviving the post civilization- but how we, as human beings, can preserve what we have lost. Art? Technology? Life. Yes, life.
The story revolves around two periods: before the Georgia Flu and after the Georgia Flu. Before the collapse and after the collapse. A movie star died on stage on the day when the fl ...more
It's unusual to focus on the arts when it comes to apocalypse stories; art is usually considered to be non-essential so I wanted to like this more. Going through the pandemic has helped us realize that the arts are food for the soul. However, the story was ho-hum and I didn't see the point of Arthur and the comic book aside from being the Kevin Bacon in this book.
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This book is chilling and beautiful and a wonderful story about humanity, civilization and what it all means. At the heart of it all is a traveling symphony/drama group that preforms for what's left of humanity after a great epidemic that lives by the phrase "survival is not sufficient." That phrase gets to the heart of it all. The story is moving, I know it will stay with me for a long time.
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What a great book! So many scenes will stay with me for so long. A realistic apocalypse novel that actually has some brightness and futurity to it. Love.
Dec 17, 2015
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