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Station Eleven

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is a post-apocalyptic novel set in the near future in a world ravaged by the effects of a virus and follows a troupe of Shakespearian actors who travel from town to town around the Great Lakes region.

I read Salvation City recently and The Plague by Camus long ago and can't remember. I've read a fair amount of post-apocalypse sci-fi, pulse waves, nuclear war. They dropped a bomb on district 13 in Hunger Games.

I love Shakespeare, read through all the plays and poems recently. To pair pandemic with Shakespearean troupe is cool as an idea to me. The execution reminds me a little of The Road and some of Octavia Butler's novels. Also there quite a few flashbacks to before the apocalypse. While there's rehearsing of lines from the play, I guess I'm less of a quote lover, and more of the whole gestalt of the plays. Anyway, cool presmis. 

I'm taking effexor and I don't think I would kill myself the way the person does. 

One of the things that makes it unique as a post apocalypse novel is that it kept flashing back and forth to before and after. 

It was a little like Sense 8 connecting all the stories, well maybe not, but I don't know how to express it. 

I've read a lot of apocalyptic sci-fi and that's a pretty high quality one.

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