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A biologist enters the supernatural Area X under the orders of a clandestine government agency to find out what strange events are happening inside, and also perhaps in order to find herself.
At its core, this book tells of a scientific attempt at understanding the unknowable, but intervowen with a tale of humanity and loss. This premise reminded me a lot of Solaris (both the book and the 2002 movie, which Lem famously hated), and it gave me the same somber, uncanny feeling.
The premise of a stran ...more
At its core, this book tells of a scientific attempt at understanding the unknowable, but intervowen with a tale of humanity and loss. This premise reminded me a lot of Solaris (both the book and the 2002 movie, which Lem famously hated), and it gave me the same somber, uncanny feeling.
The premise of a stran ...more
Really 2.5 stars. I really wanted to like it more than I did by the end. The conflict and exploration of an altered environment were intriguing and creative. However, pacing was sloooow and uneven. The ending seemed rushed, for all the the beginning was a slow burn. There were a few coincidences that moved the plot along a little too overtly. I appreciated the narrator's antisocial tendencies, but her quick acceptance of death didn't seem realistic unless she's a sociopath, which she doesn't see
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Uncanny and horrific, and incredibly compelling because of that
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