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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

Jeff VanderMeer

Start date: December 1, 2024

Finish date: February 28, 2025

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Oct 12, 2024 Connie G rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery, apocalyptic-dystopia, science-fiction, horror, series

A team of four women are on an expedition to Area X, a coastal region that has been cut off from normal civilization. The team members are only known by their professions--the psychologist, the anthropologist, the surveyor, and the biologist who is also the narrator of the story. Through the biologist's eyes, it can be seen that Area X is a thriving ecosystem in some ways. But it also contains some strange phenomena.

The story becomes more and more unsettling as they start to explore Area X. The ...more

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Dec 01, 2015 Stephanie rated it really liked it

Ohmygoodness. Well...I thought I knew what was happening. Now I have no idea.

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Jan 15, 2017 Anastasia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: università, 0-2017, sci-fi, 2-alphabet-2017-sci-fi, favorites-of-2017, letteratura-nordamericana, edizioni-einaudi

Che fortuna essere lettori! Senza Jeff VanderMeer vivere, seppure solo da pubblico, l'Area X non sarebbe stato possibile. Un'esperienza per me inedita, inquietante, misteriosa, crescentemente avviluppante, con una serie multiforme e affascinante di immagini. Mi ha turbato, ma, come accade alla biologa, non volevo distogliere lo sguardo. ...more

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Mar 05, 2016 Tanya Patrice rated it liked it

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This book is just so weird. I don't know if I got it ... but I didn't hate it ... did I like it? I'm still not sure, so I'm going to continue with the series and read book 2. ...more

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Aug 23, 2020 Charlotte rated it liked it

I didn’t understand this for over half of the book. The end was good, I think. I liked the idea once I understood what was going on, and I like the sound of books 2 and 3.

I just felt like because there was absolutely NO introduction, no background, nothing I spent far too much time trying to work out what was going on. There isn’t enough explanation in my opinion and this would be better as a longer, more fleshed out novel.

Hmm. Can’t decide whether to read the other two or not now.

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