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Post by triffiduscelestus on Dec 15, 2014 10:08:43 GMT
I have just finished this interesting and well written book spanning the present to 19 years post a global flu pandemic. The book mostly follows the Travelling Symphony, a group that tours the smited PA world of Canada giving music and Shakespeare renditions to the small hamlets it comes to. To fill out what happened there are flashbacks that inform us about the main characters and the way they are related through a Shakespearean actor in the pre-PA days.
This was a good book - no mysticism or woo, no zombies or American survivalist nuts and although not a cosy catastrophe, no the bleak McCarthy Road experience. There are elements of Wolf and Iron, Grey Beard, World Made by Hand or Postman about travelling through the PA landscape and seeing how ordinary people are faring.
Some of the scenes are excellent - particularly the chapter setting out how a group of air travelers in an airport cope with the immediate collapse and subsequent days, weeks, years.
Glad I read it, glad I borrowed it from the Library though and probably would not buy to read again. The reticence is that some passages that flesh out the pre-PA life drag and bit and seem to out balance the much more interesting (to PA-geek eyes) post-PA chapters.
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Post by edwin on Dec 15, 2014 17:14:34 GMT
Will look out for Station Eleven. Just ordered a pennyworth of World made by hand, thanks for the reminder.
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