Not a fanDid she write Station Eleven? I think she did. I think I tried that book and I found it pretty dull.
Station Eleven (2014)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of "King Lear." Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside an apartment, watching out the window as cars clog the highways, gunshots ring out, and life disintegrates around them. Fifteen years later, Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony. Together, this small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. Written on their caravan, and tattooed on Kirsten's arm is a line from Star Trek: "Because survival is insufficient." But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave. In a future in which a pandemic has left few survivors, actress Kirsten Raymonde travels with a troupe performing Shakespeare and finds herself in a community run by a deranged prophet. The plot contains mild profanity and violence.
- ISBN:
- 9781529083415
- Length:
- 352 pages
Genres: science fiction, literary fiction
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Loved itThis book just made me feel things. When I finished it, I just wanted to lie down and I don't even know if I wanted to process what I had just felt, but just to just lie there and experience, just turn my brain off and just feel this book.
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Loved itWe also have things that I love like Station 11, Wild Dark Shore.
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Loved itthe compression is amazing the themes it deals with in so few pages will just absolutely knock you out
Loved itIt is by the author of Station Eleven,which is one of my favourite books.
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Loved itit still manages to convey an incredible sense of delicacy and Beauty it's a novel that pays homage to the beauty that was lost in the collapse of civilization it's an absolute must read
Loved iti reread it recently and it really hit pretty hard but it was just such an incredible experience and i love this book so much
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Loved iti'm so glad i didn't i'm glad i read it during the pandemic and if you haven't read it yet or if you haven't reread it in a long time boy do i recommend this beautiful book it's about hope it's about compassion oh i loved it
Mixedi loved the first chapter i really enjoyed the writing style ... i just wasn't intrigued by any of it and i didn't care for any of the characters and i started to find quite a lot of the people annoying so i gave up about halfway through
Loved itI really liked it's not an all-time favorite
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Loved itSo I really enjoyed this book and it totally lived up to the hype for me even though there was so much hype it totally lived up to it for me and it's beautiful and just yeah.
Loved itit was just a book that I could not help but adore I finished it and then when I came home from work the next day I came home excited to read it before I remembered that I'd already come to the end of the story
Loved itit's just such a beautiful story that I think is very highly underrated and deserves more love I've said this many times before but it's the type of book that really makes you think when you read it which is something that I adore
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Loved itI love station 11 it's very good but all the rest of her books are just as good as station 11
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Loved itthis book has just stuck with me since I read it I have still thought about it's been months since I read this book and I am still thinking about it and still thinking about how impactful it was and how great it was
Loved it"Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel and I owe you a full gushing review of this story which was absolutely beautiful but it is another one that caught me by surprise.
Loved itthis is pretty fantastic I knew that I was going to reread this about a third way into this book and I cannot wait to read this again this is a really good novel
Loved itit is very well crafted you can see that the author put a lot of attention to detail into her story and I really appreciate that so it was fantastic
Loved itBut I got completely sucked into this book. I didn't want to put it down whatsoever.