Catherine Goldwyn asked this question about Station Eleven:
does it bother anyone that in the 20 years since these people got slammed and the human race got almost wiped away , no one thought about going to a library and figuring out how to rebuild? I mean, all the information is there - in writing, in books! All of it - for all the ages! For me, this was nagging me the whole time
Francene Carroll For a novel which is allegedly about the role of art in society there was very little about books in Station Eleven and no logical explanation for thi…moreFor a novel which is allegedly about the role of art in society there was very little about books in Station Eleven and no logical explanation for this omission that I can remember. You'd think that in the absence of television and computers that reading would become an important pastime and with only 1% of the population left it's not like that have any shortage of things to read. (less)
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