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Of all of them there at the bar that night, the bartender was the one who survived the longest. He died three weeks later on the road out of the city.
on the night the world begins to end, a man has a heart attack and dies onstage while performing the lead role in king lear. considering that shortly after this, the georgia flu will have killed off 99% of the population and changed the world as we know it forever, it seems unlikely that he would be remembered among so many millions dead. but that' ...more
on the night the world begins to end, a man has a heart attack and dies onstage while performing the lead role in king lear. considering that shortly after this, the georgia flu will have killed off 99% of the population and changed the world as we know it forever, it seems unlikely that he would be remembered among so many millions dead. but that' ...more
I couldn't put this book down. It was well written - even elegant in a way, as well as though provoking. I love post apocalyptic books as they are great canvas's for humanity, and what matters. In Station Eleven an Ebola-esque virus (the Georgia Flu) knocks out over 99% of the worlds population. This story is told half right before the collapse, and half afterwards, and has several threads that tie together nicely.
Reading how civilization and infrastructure all die after the collapse is fascinat ...more
Reading how civilization and infrastructure all die after the collapse is fascinat ...more
What a beautiful book. I am so glad I read it. I like to read dystopian fiction and this is definitely a worthy addition to the genre. The prose is lovely, the characters fascinating, and the world building very solidly done. But really, of course, this novel is more about existential questions than surviving an apocalypse--though it is about that too. (In fact, the pandemic is such a plausible scenario that it is a bit discomfiting to read; I read the section "The Terminal" while in an airport
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I really loved all of the different stories and how they come together. I only wish there was a sequel!
A fantastic book! The premise is sci-fi (pandemic wipes out most of humanity), but the story is much more human and emotional than you might expect. I enjoyed the different threads of characters and plots that eventually came together. It recalled Margaret Atwood's work...certainly "Oryx and Crake" has obvious similarities, but it actually reminded me more of "The Handmaid's Tale", with characters' recent memories of the time "before". My favorite subplot was about the group stranded in the airp
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When I first picked up this book, I noticed that Library of Congress had assigned it the subject heading Time Travel - Fiction. In point of fact, not once do our characters ever travel through time. Unless frequent flashbacks count. But truth in advertising aside, I enjoyed this picture of a dystopian, post-civilization adventure. And of course, comic books provide the narrative thread that pulls all our disparate characters together in the end.
Thoroughly enjoyed this book, beginning to end. So glad it was for book club - can't wait to discuss.
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this is very close to a perfect book, and while reading a book about an apocalyptic flu during the coronavirus might sound crazy, it was actually just the book i needed to read right now.
So very good! Sucked me in right away. For a post-pandemic/apocalypse book, it’s surprisingly not dark. I love how the little threads of interconnectedness weave together. It’s beautiful.
Perfection.
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