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Book Review of Station Eleven

Station Eleven
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If someone would be so kind to tell me what the hell was going on in this book I would really appreciate it. Maybe I'm getting old or I was having flashbacks from the early days of college, but I have no idea what the point of this novel was. A lot of things went on, but none of it was all that remarkable. 99% of it was me saying "Who the frig cares?". I read a ton of post apocalyptic novels, this was not that. The author seemed to try to write some sort of mesmerizing literary fiction crap and fuse it with dystopia. It didn't work, it was a major epic failure. The writing was all over the place, the characters were flat and pointless, and the dialogue was utterly garbage.

Don't get me wrong there was a story in there somewhere that was dying to come out. However it was pushed down to the bottom of the trash bin and left to sit there and die a very lonely death. Even the climax of the story was horrible. It last 2.3 seconds with no emotion what so ever. At this time I really had no more fucks to give. I was angry and wanted to throw the book across the room. This is officially the WORST book I have ever finished.