Station Eleven

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I have just finished reading this and while I enjoyed it, I don’t quite understand the fuss about it. I didn’t find anything “beautiful” or “haunting” in it, and I didn’t particularly care about any of the characters, whose stories mostly go nowhere. The whole thing seemed quite waffly and inconsequential. Tell me why I’m wrong!

It was a silly plot. No infrastructure was damaged so life should have gone back to normal very quickly. There was a bit about seeing an electric light come on for the first time since the virus but loads of people own generators so lots of people would always have had electricity. Nobody seemed to attempt to connect to other places by radio.

I’ve just finished the is in two days and thought everything about it was practically perfect as far as writing goes.

I fell in love with every single character (even Arthur!) and I feel like this is because they were so honest and raw and human. It really taps in to their emotions. It wasn’t about the drama of the epidemic it was about themselves and their habits and their thoughts. It made me feel pretty comforted in a strange way about our current situation and any other future pandemics yet to come. Left me with loads of things to think about. Why Clarke or any of the others at the airport never set out with the symphony to find the ‘grid’ at the end for example. Why a whole 5 weeks had passed before they embarked on travelling there. They had all settled and accepted for a life as they presently knew it as so many years had passed and I found that so human and beautiful.

The people in the airport were so unrealistic. If humans were that passive we'd still be living in caves.

I adored it.