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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (June 2, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0804172447
  • ISBN-13: 978-0804172448
  • Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2,967 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsSurvival is insufficient
By H. Millay VINE VOICE on July 29, 2014
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This is a beautiful, haunting novel about the end of the world as we know it (thanks to something called the Georgia flu, which wipes out 99% of the world's population in mere days). The story jumps back and forth between the time before and after "the collapse," and the narration rotates through various characters' points of view. Though the premise (plague apocalypse) sounds sci-fi, Station Eleven is light on the science and heavy on the philosophy. It's definitely much more about how the apocalypse affects humanity and civilization than it is about the details of the apocalypse. If you're familiar with survivalist stories like S.M. Stirling's Emberverse series, this is basically the inverse of that. The author isn't concerned with where people are getting their food and fresh water twenty years post-apocalypse. She's more into the tragic beauty of a fleet of jumbo jets that haven't flown in decades lined up neatly on a runway in the falling snow.

That brings us to one of the main themes of this tale, "survival is insufficient." Taken from a Star Trek episode, the phrase is the motto of the Traveling Symphony, a ragtag band of musicians and actors who roam what's left of the Midwest, playing classical music and performing Shakespeare. The ability to create and appreciate art, they believe, is essential to our humanity. It's what takes us beyond mere survival and makes us something more than animals. I loved this part of the book, how the little settlements of people living in Walmarts and gas stations would rush out to hear Beethoven, tears streaming down their faces. This is one of my favorite angles of post-apocalyptic fiction - once we've figured out how to survive, how do we learn to LIVE again? What exactly is it that makes us human?Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsa near-perfectly crafted text in terms of structure and style, imbued with a haunting depth of feeling and heart.
By B. Capossere TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on August 19, 2014
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“Quiet” and “lovely” are not usually words one reaches for when describing a post-apocalyptic novel. Not with the reverted-back-to-savagery cannibals; the road-raging-mohawk-sporting highway warriors; the gleeful told-you-so rat-a-tat of survivalist gunfire, or the annoying mumblespeak “braiiinnnnss” from the shambling zombies. But quiet and lovely are exactly the words I’d use to describe Station Eleven, the post-apocalyptic novel from Emily St. John Mandel that is happily missing all the above and shows the modern world ending with neither a bang nor a whimper, but with a gentle murmur.

Mandel’s chosen method of ending the world is the Georgia Flu, an incredibly virulent bug that wipes out 95+ percent of its victims within a span of 48 hours. In true form for the eventual tone and shape of the novel, though, Mandel opens not with a mass of deaths but instead with one very singular, very hushed one: famed movie star Arthur Leander, who dies of a heart attack on stage while performing King Lear in Toronto. A young EMT in the audience, Jeevan, first tries to resuscitate Arthur, and then, when the ambulance crew takes over, has an few moments of awkwardly trying to comfort the young child actress, Kirsten, who saw the whole thing. It is while Jeevan is walking home, his girlfriend having abandoned him at the theater, that one of his friends from the city hospital calls to warn him of the flu currently rampaging through the local hospitals and it is this that saves Jeevan’s life.

The story moves back and forth in time.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsWhy all the raving reviews?
By Cari_Bay on November 6, 2014
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I didn’t dislike this book but I didn’t particularly like it either. And I’m really blown away by all the five star ratings it has received. It’s essentially a pre and post-apocalyptic story. A pandemic infects the world and kills 99% of the population. One of the major issues with this book is the meandering timeline. There are two primary storylines (and several subplots) one before the Georgian flu about an aging actor and one after about actress who was alive when the flu struck but only really remembers her life after. The story jumps between various points of the characters’ lives it was often confusing as to where the reader was in the timeline. (And reading this on a Kindle made this problem more pronounced because it’s hard to “flip” back and forth to confirm what year it is or what previously happened.)
There were many glimmers of a good story within the book but it bounces around so much and never really comes to fruition. While it did seem a little far-fetched that all of these characters were connected by the actor who dies at the beginning of the book and a comic book series (which sounds more ridiculous than it seems), I was willing to suspend by disbelief. But it was never really all brought together. I got to the end and only thought, “So what?”
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2.0 out of 5 starsDespite fascinating premises, strangely rote
By M. Richardson on October 18, 2014
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Station Eleven offers quite a few interesting nuggets to ponder. How would a wicked virulent flu unfold today? As with the death of a loved one, the death of a civilization calls it to be appreciated before us like never before. But where the patchwork plot of this novel has spicy ingredients — post-apocalyptyic thespians, a pre-apocalyptic womanizer, a prophetic graphic novel, and so forth — the narrative felt incredibly dull to me, the characters somehow devoid of serious motives. These ingredients (maybe there were too many) feel like dropped promises.

As a potential trope, Shakespeare hovers above the story ridiculously unclaimed, and ends up being a mere backdrop, or worse, a name-drop. Given tribute many times over, there isn't the faintest echo of Shakespeare's complex, tragic — and comic — portraits of humanity and human conflicts involving love and power. What would someone with serious charisma mean in a world with its state houses burned to the ground? The sway and menace of St. John Mandel's "prophet" lacks credibility, since he seems to possess no charm or cunning. As with the Bard references, the "Station Eleven" graphic novel fails to manifest in a way that would justify the title and the obsession given it by (I think too coincidentally) many of its characters.

Readers interested in traveling thespians in an apocalyptic landscape — where stage acting and tension play out more in a broader plot of menace — ought to read Barry Unsworth's "Morality Play" (http://www.amazon.com/Morality-Play-Norton-Paperback-Fiction/dp/0393315606), to which this book may owe some of its concepts.

So, in spite of fascinating and ambitious premises, Station Eleven lacks the sense of gravity, poetry, and the sublime that this scale of death would seem to deserve.
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5.0 out of 5 starsand religious fanatics like the Prophet

I started Station Eleven in July 2015 and finished it over the weekend (February 2016). I usually gobble books up in one sitting, but this book sat by my bedside for months with... Read more

Published 1 day ago by Cassie B
5.0 out of 5 starsI really liked it. Good writing

Not your typical end of the world, pandemic story. I really liked it. Good writing, kept me going after more.

Published 1 day ago by Jacque
5.0 out of 5 starsEnjoyed it.

Very inventive. Enjoyed it.

Published 1 day ago by Susan
5.0 out of 5 starsOriginal plot, great characters.

An excellent read! Interesting, original plot, and intriguing.

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A post-apocalypse novel with a clever use of multiple perspectives.

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5.0 out of 5 starsA Strong Novel

Emily St. John Mandel post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven delves deep into the potential of the novel as a form to produce a work that is both complex in structure while... Read more

Published 2 days ago by Eric Maroney
2.0 out of 5 starsand the disappointment of my expectations

The only reason I am giving this two stars is because I didn't "hate" it, but time spent on this book, and the disappointment of my expectations, did make me aggravated. Read more

Published 2 days ago by Sherri Latchford
5.0 out of 5 starsA special read

I was worried it would be all apocalypse and misery. It was full of humanity. Great characters. Lots of heart.

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5.0 out of 5 starsLater in grabbed me and I loved it.

It had a very confusing beginning. Don't give it up. Later in grabbed me and I loved it. Joyce

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5.0 out of 5 starsThe writing is excellent and moving

This is not your usual post-apocalyptic story. The story is told 20 years after 99.9% of the world's human population died suddenly of a pandemic flu, and focuses on a small group... Read more

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