Ark
Ark
Ratings106
Average rating3.5
This was pretty good! I almost didn't read it. It's sort of a coming-of-age story, but it doesn't have a romance, and I expected it to (and wasn't looking forward to it). Instead there's a gentle and sad friendship plot.
It's about accepting an imminent apocalypse, but it's calm and melancholy, not dark and violent. No violence at all, in fact.
Personally I found this story to be quite boring. It was beautifully written and getting to hear about the way the world ends and the culture around that was interesting but mostly nothing happens in this story aside from cataloging flowers and that's just not an interesting story to me.
The book was pretty good. It was nice and short and pretty quick to read, as long as you don't procrastinate reading it like I did. It felt kind of sad and depressing, especially near the end, but I still liked it. - August 3, 2023
Heel ingetogen, introspectisch verhaal met een melancholische bijklank, over wat echt belangrijk is.
“Well, you can't love everything equally,” she said. “You just can't—and if you did, then it's the same as loving nothing at all. So you have to hold just a few things dear, because that's what love is. Particular. Specific.”
This is part of the Amazon Original ‘Forward Collection' curated by Blake Crouch. This is my first experience with the author, and I enjoyed it. These are available through prime for free on kindle or audible!
Two weeks before an asteroid destroys all of earth, a group of scientists are still dealing with the small stuff. And by that I mean seeds and plants. Most of earth is already evacuated, but this group is taxed with cataloguing samples for humanity's long journey to somewhere new. Somewhere in the growing panic, Samantha finds a new species, and with that, a new lease on hope.
This was a well done short about what it means to be human, and what ties us to our humanity. In the event that we'd need to leave earth, would you be able to willingly give up your home?
Personally a 4/5*. Narration from Evan Rachel Wood was great!
“She wished she could have told him that life was already full of dread, no matter who you were. That there was nothing you could have that you couldn't one day lose.”
One of the stories from Blake Crouch's “Forward” collection. We follow Samantha, a horticulturist and scientist, living in one of the remaining Arks on Earth: Ark Flora. Most of the Arks have already left the planet carrying all survivors to a new home. Her job is to catalogue plants before an incoming asteroid, Finis, brings the apocalypse and destroys all life as we know it.
It was okay. Too slow and emotional for my taste.