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Station Eleven

by Emily St. John Mandel (Goodreads Author)

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" I liked Station Eleven because it was an interesting story. It had a lot of detail and included many layers in the story. With that said, it was probably also one of the hardest books I had to read. It took me a while to get engaged into the story an I liked Station Eleven because it was an interesting story. It had a lot of detail and included many layers in the story. With that said, it was probably also one of the hardest books I had to read. It took me a while to get engaged into the story and by the time I was engaged I lost a lot of important details in the story that was probably really important to the development of the plot. I usually like to re-read things to make sure I get every single detail but unfortunately I didn’t have time to do that with this book. I feel like if you were to pick up this book it is not something you can just read one time to fully pick up on every little thing or symbol. You really need to take the time and analyze this one!
Station Eleven was a different take on a lot of modern apocalypses in the world. It focused a lot on the characters and connecting each character instead of the setting of the place. It focused around one main character, Arthur, who dies within the first chapter of the book. To me, that was interesting because I never read a book where the main character was actually dead. This story had a lot of parallels. It paralleled the story of King Lear and Station Eleven. Arthur had 3 wives in this story, just like King Lear had 3 daughters. Station Eleven was a comic book that one of Arthur’s ex-wives spent many years creating. It eventually became a new bible for the new world prophet, who was Arthur’s son Tyler. Probably the other main character was Kirsten. She was also a complex character. She was connected to the web of characters a number of different ways. It felt like eventually she had met a lot of the people in the story. Which I really liked because I thought it helped bring the story together a little more.
I liked that the story had a lot of detail and symbolism throughout the entire story. However, I felt like I missed out on a lot of that because I wasn’t able to stay engaged to the story and it felt like nothing for me was making sense or connecting. I think a weakness to the story is that the author never really finishes the story. I was hoping for a lot more answers and instead a lot of my questions were left to my imagination. ...more "

Apr 28, 2015 08:05PM · see review